The fragmentation of our society is nearing exquisite proportions as more and more identity groups discover victimhood. Not a day goes by when some individual doesn’t claim to be offended on behalf of some identifiable affinity group. It’s gotten so our lexicon is rapidly being purged of words that identify members of any cohort, lest there be offense.
This tendency to take offense on behalf of certain groups has reached the grass-roots level as now members of groups take offense by what local politicians say. Recently Toronto councilor Rob Ford got himself a lambasting for daring to identify Orientals by the name “Orientals” and he did so in the most positive way, praising people of Asian descent as being well-known for their work ethic.
