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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1128088, member: 40"]
More like a matter of a vocal minority doing their damndest to stamp out anything that can be perceived as even remotely offensive to anyone, no matter how small in numbers the offended group might be.
 
The Redskin example is extreme IMO, because it is clearly a derrogatory term, and has been for hundreds of years [this isn't just a once acceptable word no longer being acceptable language nuance, like the "negroes" or "colored" examples from earlier in this thread].
 
But in contemporary society, the politically correct absurdity extends well beyond such no brainer instances.  I read this week about a military father who was barred from entering a school with his daughter here in Minnesota [a bastion of liberal ideals], after being told that men and women in uniform weren’t allowed because it may offend another student.  School officials tried to CYA after the story broke last week by claiming that it was about preventing guns in school, but the guy was in uniform but reportedly not wering a firearm.
 
Last month, a girl was suspended for saying "god bless you" when somebody sneezed in class by an overzeaolus, offended teacher--and the school adminstration SUPPORTED the suspension.
 
How "polite" are either of those examples?
 
This crap isn't even sensible anymore--not by any reasonable standard.  And it's a function of the politically correct environment we live in where its okay to obnoxiously repudiate / be overtly discriminatory against anything perceived as being remotely offensive to anyone.  So with all due respect, while I might happen to agree with you about the specific Redskins example, I think that the trend is in the main quite negative.
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