The thing is - whoever decided to label words as pejorative did so under what authority? There is no government agency with that authority - and the First Amendment prohibits such an organization. Simply put, SOMEBODY decided they didn't like them then started labeling those who use them. By the way, the word Negro only goes back a good 4-500 years. It comes from the Spanish word negro which means black. (And it comes from the Latin "niger".) I have words for these speech police- FUCK YOU! I suppose I could add "and the horse you came in on."
The thing is - whoever decided to label words as pejorative did so under what authority? There is no government agency with that authority - and the First Amendment prohibits such an organization. Simply put, SOMEBODY decided they didn't like them then started labeling those who use them. By the way, the word Negro only goes back a good 4-500 years. It comes from the Spanish word negro which means black. (And it comes from the Latin "niger".) I have words for these speech police- FUCK YOU! I suppose I could add "and the horse you came in on."