Rep. Eli Crane used the derogatory phrase in describing his proposed amendment to a military bill. Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty asked that his words be stricken from the record.
What if progressives are just more accepting of the notion that groups of people should be able to decide what they like to be called?
That isn’t the point, it is about smugness. They want to feel superior to others by changing the cohort name and shaming those who don’t follow their changes. It’s been studied if you would like to look more into it. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2749204
Alright.
I’ve gone to the trouble to download that article. Just for reference, here’s the abstract:
Labels plays an important role in defining groups and individuals who belong to the groups. This has been especially true for racial and ethnic groups in general and for Blacks in particular. Over the past century the standard term for Blacks has shifted from “Colored” to “Negro” to “Black” and now perhaps to “African American.” The changes can be seen as attempts by Blacks to redefine themselves and to gain respect and standing in a society that has held them to be subordinate and inferior.
and I see nothing in the article itself that would say otherwise.
In other words: this is talking about the Black community deciding for itself what they wish to use as preferred terminology to refer to themselves.
There’s nothing in there about “progressives.” There’s nothing in there about progressives “feeling superior to others.” There’s nothing in there about progressives “shaming those who don’t follow their changes.”
That article is from 1992 and shows the history of the progression of the cohort names. I invite you to go down that rabbit hole, it is very interesting. Good Luck!
