Originally Posted by BluesDawg

I have noticed the preoccupation of some advocates with shrinking the vocabulary. I guess it is hard to directly deal with hate and prejudice, so they reach for the low hanging fruit of the words people use. My problem with that is in trying to take the words away from people who actually use them to harm, you also take them away from everyone else. I have even seen where some want to eliminate the term "political correctness". They don't even see the irony in that. What's next? Burning books?

As an advocate for safe bicycling, the words I am most concerned about are the ones being texted by people who should be focused on driving. They can call me whatever they like as long as they don't run me over.