Sorry for the provocative headline, but I'm not. I like to think of myself as a pretty generous person, and everyone knows that all niggards are cheapskates, right? If you don't know that, look it up.
I write this to poke fun at our politically correct world where David Howard was forced to resign his position as an aide to D.C. mayor Anthony A. Williams because he used the word. Some ignoramous (by the name of Marshall Brown) assumed that it was a racial epithet and lodged a complaint, forcing his resignation. Eventually an investigation showed that the term comes from the old Norse word nigla and has absolutely nothing to do with the very familiar racial slur and he was offered his job back. Doesn't anyone in the mayor's office own a dictionary for heaven's sake???
Here's a great article by Bruce Thornton about how our culture is losing control of itself by making it a god-given right (oops, apologies to all atheists who might have been offended by that term) to never be offended our have our feelings hurt. Read this:
The Word Police
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