No "Carrots," Please: Taking Pride in V-Word's "Unrepentant Bigotry"

I am on a rather lonely campaign to make the v-word -- "vegetable" -- as unacceptable as the n-word in describing human beings. I call it an "unrepentant bigotry."

Why? Like the n-word, the v-word dehumanizes the human beings against whom it is wielded toward the end of lowering their perceived moral value, thereby allowing them to be treated as somehow less than human.

Just like the n-word justified slavery and Jim Crow, calling someone a "vegetable" or a "carrot" repackages actions that wou...