<i>&quot;Political correctness is ass-backwards.&quot;</i><p>Sometimes, something that people are calling &quot;political correctness&quot; is merely &quot;correctness&quot;, and is not political in nature at all. The statement tptacek made about Ferguson was accurate, and five minutes (or less) of Googling could have confirmed that for you.<p>To demand color-blind language in this circumstance is to deny the existence of systemic racism, and to make it impossible to discuss solutions. A discussion about Ferguson without acknowledgement of the racial divide in Ferguson is actively harmful to finding solutions.