too many people's brains just short out and behavior goes irrational when they hear the wrong words. really that needs to just stop but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
imho, the reactions to the words is far worse than the words themselves. You can't get rid of the words, you need to fix the way people react to them.
so, I feel the problem is not the words, but the way people react to them.
Deep wounds sometimes require inordinately long periods of time to heal, and I'm afraid that people just don't understand that.
Back when Heinlein's
Stranger In A Strange Land was hot stuff, when people were scrawling
"grok" on any and every surface, I found Michael Smith's
"when waiting is filled" to be
the meaningful words in the book, but, unfortunately, I also found them to be incomprehensible to most people. (Still do!
)
I don't expect the words to ever go away, but I do expect people's reactions to them to s...l...ooo...w...l...y mellow.
It took 40 years from Dr. King's assassination for us to get a black man in the White House, but I'll bet you could have gotten some exceptional odds on that had you been crazy enough to believe that
waiting would be filled in such a short period of time and placed your bet in 1968.
