> In my earlier message, my points were:
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> 1) People, when you get right down to it, are people and it's silly to give them a million different labels.

yes, but no. there are lots of things behind both sides. i mean, the world SHOULD be a place where people are people, but that's not the way history has shaped the world. now its imperative for people to name themselves to maintain SOME sort of identity... although that contradicts people being people. murf.
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> 2) Not offending people is getting so extreme that in trying not to offend minorities we're forgetting other groups of people and offending them.

agreed.
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> 3) People don't seem to worry about offending white people, men, Christians, people with no mental or physical handicaps, non-gay people, or children.

don't forget teenagers, although you might have meant to include that under children. nor do people worry about offending those from whom they have absurd expectations (sorry, long story behind that one)
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> 4)I hate politically correctness.

well, read Iss's Re" no kiddin(long) entry... i think that sort of makes sense out of the whole pc thing.

uni"heard of those plucot things?"peg