Date:  Tue, 25 Oct 1994 17:37:08 -0400

From:  "Bethany Dumas, UTK" <DUMASB[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTKVX.BITNET>

Subject: Is "conservative" a slander word?



In response to my post about the use of "that word" in KNoxville, Roger

Vanderveen asked whether I use it [the word "conservative"] "in general

to slander conservatives." ?!? I find it astonishing that one might be

taken to be "slandering" conservatives by calling them conservatives. Can

one slander someone by calling by the label that rightfully belongs to

them? Or has the word "conservative" become non-PC without my noticing that

that has happened?