A GOOD COMMENT FROM SOUTH AFRICA

PC is rendering media not only inaccurate but downright untruthful to the detriment of the very minorities or angry people they are trying to placate. If you outlaw a term like "disabled" - we were advised to use 'differently abled" -- you also trivialise and blur the predicament of those you are championing.

Here in SA we have lots of this, always have. In the days of apartheid, that was "separate development". Now the people who suffered from separate development are "formerly disadvantaged". Uh, no, they're still disadvantaged in the townships. And people in townships are "communities" with "leaders" (who died and made you ...? etc) whereas people in the rich old white suburbs are "residents" who are allowed to speak for themselves.

Source Via Marc Miyake