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Rick, I cannot argue with your plea for a common sense approach to how we address people and express ourselve, but I would urge our society to also remember some of the reasons for the PC collective: we were a racist society. Black people were (and still are) beaten up, harrassed, hassled, refused jobs etc etc routinely, made fun of with impunity, laughed about to their faces. And not just Blacks: when my Dad, who came from Ireland when a teenager, arrived here he was faced with large (badly spelled and poorly written) signs in the windows of the B&Bs that said "No Blacks, No dogs, No Irish" - which kind of sums up the white UK attitude at the time. I would not want to see a return to that. Would you?