Political correctness run amuck


	Political correctness run amuck

n2sooners

4-9-2008 4:51 PM

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free speech, racism, obama, politics, crime

n2sooners says:

I guess we need to add monkey to the list of words that cannot be uttered in public places for fear of being accused of racism.

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