The way our laws are written make it impossible for this country not to become a place where the people are afraid to speak. A single person or a small group of people can hire a lawyer because they believe that what ever someone said or what a sign reads is aimed at them specifically and is demeaning. The lawyer takes it to Court and it works it's way through the system until it becomes unlawful to refer to someone in a certain vernacular. Lets say women can't be called girls, because it suggests non adulthood. At the same time another person may feel that to isolate them as women instead of as a person is demeaning, so you can no longer say women. So how do you reference a single group?
And it goes the other way with races, You have German Americans, Italian Americans, Asian Americans African Americans, and then those that live here but want to be referred to by their ancestry, Puerto Rican, Chinese, whatever. A lawyer will fight a battle for those persons to be called as they wish.
The problem is all these titles and groupings separate a nation. The early immigrants were proud to call themselves Americans, they may have been from (anywhere else) but now they were here, they Were Americans and they built this nation. What we need is for Judges to sit at a hearing and tell the lawyers NO, It's not to be, it's detrimental to a nation to divide that nation. But this won't happen, because in this country it is your right to speak, to express an opinion or an idea. It is the peoples right to complain about the way laws are written and fight to have them changed.
The problem is, "We the People" as a people are an ignorant bunch. We see things for what they are and how they affect us. We take no time to look at history to see why and no thought for the future to see what will happen. We are a nation of individuals, and sometime in the future we will be just that, individuals in individual groups with no unity or nation.
A little education and regard for others can go a long ways to make things right for everyone over time, a little ignorance can destroy something instantly. To the point where it never comes back.
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