Not Short, But A Potential Vertical Opportunity Group

There is something perverse in the verbal contortions attempted to appear politically correct. Being blind is abnormal but it is not a stigma. Making the word unacceptable needlessly stigmatizes the person. If it were possible to alter reality by denying it, I would be wholeheartedly in the business of denial. If we could get rid of poverty by calling poor people “economically challenged,� you bet I would never ever talk about poor people but go one step ahead and call them “economic opportunity group.� Short people would first be “vertically challenged� and then “horizontally gifted� and finally perhaps “potential vertical opportunity group.�

Atanu Day seems to believe that overdoing the use of politically correct euphimisms to refer to disadvantaged people is ridiculous and tantamount to denying reality.

I agree.