Political Correctness Raises it's Ugly Head

[Coyote33]

Jim, don't tell the editors: White people exist in Africa too!

Two articles for you:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7567291&page=1

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36764

[theGringo]

Does this mean 'African Americans' are now just 'Americans'?

On the contrary. In this age of multiculturalism, even Nelson Mandela has been tagged as "the first African-American President of South Africa". Funny article in this month's National Review on the subject.

Some people are just afraid to say "black" or even, evidently, "African".

[newenglandshooter]

Newspeak

Ah, that's right.

[LenS]

Wait'll these guys find out about my Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches.

Do you mean "Congress critters"??

[Glockaholic]

I'LL give you one better.

ever work with hydraulics in cars, as in clutches?

You have a clutch master (cylinder) and on the transmission there is a SLAVE (cylinder)

Guess what they want to do away with in the mechanics dictionary

[Bill Nance]

If I was teaching a class and someone objected to this I'd laugh in their face and tell them to pound sand. They can feel free to flounce out of the class (I'm keeping their money) if they want.

I charge for my classes and as a private person/company have a right to be as much of an asshole as I wish to. I won't put up with PC stupidity and anyone who does absent threats to their employment deserves no sympathy.

[jasons]

For what it's worth, in the Marines in the mid to late 90's we called the carries that you describe "Weak Side Muzzle Down" or "Strong Side Muzzle Up." I never heard them called African or American carries. (Or African-American carries for that matter.)

[oldsoldier29]

Well, that explains why I have always called it the Mozambique method, and someone I was conversing with called it a Failure Drill....he was 10 years younger than me, and apparently the PC goons got to his training!

[RFWAVELENGTH]

The same thing has happened with the renaming of the "mozambique" to "failure drill".

...and "Rhodesian Ready" (low-ready position for carry of rifle/shotgun). The Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) favored this carry method for patrol.