The Media’s War on Words

I recently ran across a piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer that lays out four racist words and phrases that should be banished from the English language. It begins like this:

Editor’s note: Please be aware offensive terms are repeated here solely for the purpose of identifying and unpacking them honestly. These terms may upset some readers.

Steel yourself, brave reader, here they are:

Peanut gallery
Eenie meenie miney moe
Gyp
No can do

The same grammarian who authored the piece had previously confronted the “deeply racist connotation”...