This is false. There are very small pockets of absolutely obnoxious genuinely PC-types in academia. If you have to be around them everyday, you will bitch.
There is some silly and totally missguided political correctness bitching from other sectors that are not racist right-wing nutcases. Every now and then you read about groups bitching that they were portrayed "wrong" in some tv show or movie or videogame. Everyone is pretty good at getting offended these days, as long as there is money to earn, or political targets to attack, or there's nothing good on tv that weekend.
False. This clip nonwithstanding, you have to get a taste of the rhetoric of honest-to-goodness, academic-myopic word police to understand the real objections to PC. In short, it accomplishes nothing and verges on assessing thoughtcrime, just to make sociology Ph.D's feel better about their guilt.
Also it makes everyone needlessly paranoid and opts for superficial changes in labels rather than addressing anything more meaningful. These are the people that would like to outlaw Huckleberry Finn because of the N-word, heedless of context. It's like being a crazy church lady purging the library, only from the opposite angle.
But this debate is quite 90's. The PC wave rolled back, thank God.
One of Heimdall's kenning-like names was "Gullintani", meaning "golden-toothed". So why didn't they tap Flavor Flav for the job? He could even bring his own hat.
And yes, almost anyone who complains about "political correctness" these days is an entitled asshole. Basically the fat lady who crams herself into the elevator and bitches that the people compressed into her ass should have taken the stairs.
I think some smarmy white supremacists have been vandalizing the mythological figure's page:
Heimdall (Old Norse Heimdallr, modern Icelandic Heimdallur) is one of the ćsir (gods) in Norse mythology, in the Edda called the "Black god" (hvítastr ása "Darkest of the aesir Sćm 72Ş; hvíta ás "dark as" Sn. 104).
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