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So we need to dumb everything down to a fifth-grade level?
Maybe not, but if the issue being discussed is whether a politician should have got in trouble for using "niggardly," then I think we're missing the point.
Should Americans be more understanding and better educated? Maybe. I guess I would prefer it. Since I can't do anything about it, though, I'll live with what is, not what should be.
Should the politician have seen the problem coming and avoided the word niggardly? Well, I hate "political correctness," and I'm not real up on politics, and I would have known to avoid the word. So, in my opinion, a politician who didn't know what he would get when he used the word is too ignorant to be in politics.
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