POLITICAL CORRECTNESS BY THE NUMBERS
JULY 1, 2011. With an unerring sense of how things are to be spoken of, choose from the following alternatives:
A black man broke into a parked car, stole the steering wheel, and fled.
A non-white man broke into a car and removed the steering wheel.
A man broke into a car.
A creature endowed with DNA probably both entered and exited a car.
A car was entered, and the steering wheel was removed.
Judy Smith went out to her car and noticed the window was broken and the steering wheel was gone.
Judy Smith, an obvious racist, went out to her car and noticed the window was broken and the steering wheel was gone.
Something about a car changed.
It has been reported that something about a car changed.
A piece of matter in the universe was reduced in size, but no energy was lost.
Police are asking for help in locating an observer who may have changed what he was observing by the act of observation.
Depending upon the theoretical formulation, a change in the position of sub-atomic particles or waves, or wavicles occurred.
The ancient philosopher Zeno asserted that the cosmos was a continuous whole, and any attempt to impose divisions or distinctions would result in a reductio ad absurdum. For example, he offered a proof that, in a race between Achilles and a tortoise, Achilles would never catch up if he conceded a small head start to the tortoise.
A police representative said.
A news anchor stated that a police spokesperson said.
Something may or may not have happened in a particular situation.
An investigation is.
An investigation.
An invest.
An.
A.
Nothing.
Precision of language=reduction.
JON RAPPOPORT