>  In any case, telling your CUSTOMERS that you're going to ignore
>  their feelings because they're illogical/stupid/liberal/PC/etc is
>  just bad business.

Of course, I'd change whatever they wanted. They're paying the bills,
they can have whatever labels they want, whatever colour, whatever
shape. Even little smiley faces dotting the I's too, and I'll curtsey, bow
and doff my cap on delivery no matter how nuts I think they are. And I've
had the occassional customer who's a sandwich short of a picnic, like
we all have

But on on the personal side, I think people get upset because it's often
a small vocal pissy minority with ill-founded "issues". For example
feminists who objected to "manual", even though the "man" content
has nothing to do with "male". Paging Dr Phil, paging Dr Phil

Slavery wasn't and isn't exclusively white-on-black. Does that person
have an active role in trying to stamp out current African / Middle
Eastern black-on-black, European white-on-white, or Asian slavery ?
Do they campaign against oppressive regimes ? If they can get such
a bug up their *ss about a label maybe they should. And maybe look
into their own roots. How much public atonement could we expect
from this person if they found out that their ancestors practised slavery ?
Probably not much at all. I think some people just enjoy wallowing in
poor-me-poor-me-look-what-they-did self-pity

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