View From the Bushes

I belong to quite a few mailing lists. I guess getting 500 pieces of spam a day isn't enough -- I have to add another hundred mailing list messages as well. Today on one of these lists someone used the word "kosher," specifically that their D&D campaign was not kosher. Someone else on the list went ballistic over the use of this word. I have to say I was surprised; there are words you expect to generate a reaction (the mildest I can think of off the top of my head is "chick") but "kosher"? Of course immediately everyone assumed that he was Jewish and that's why he was offended; I don't think that's what it was...

A closer read of some of the guy's posts lead me to believe that he had no particular fondness for the Jewish people and may in fact have been a neo-nazi. I guess that the most surprising thing of all is that political correctness has come full circle and is now being used by anti-semites. All of this goes to show, of course, that we really need to have PSA's on the value of not being so incredibly prickly. I swear, everywhere I turn people are launching jihads against anything they find even remotely offensive. The latest story is about how animal activists managed to stop "Road Kill" candy. Will the madness never end?

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Ross