Political correctness

[Big Black Dog]

I say political correctness is a very bad practice and it causes more problems than it "fixes". I believe the best policy is to call a spade a spade. It's truly defines it. It is well-understood by all and it cuts to the chase with no implied meanings. I challenge any of you to honestly say how political correctness has really been a help to the general population.

 

[Oddball]

Passive-aggressive censorship.

 

[syrenn]

where in the world do people think they have the right to
gasp

not be offended?

Get a life and grow up. I am sick to death of political correctness.

 

[The T]

I say political correctness is a very bad practice and it causes more problems than it "fixes". I believe the best policy is to call a spade a spade. It's truly defines it. It is well-understood by all and it cuts to the chase with no implied meanings. I challenge any of you to honestly say how political correctness has really been a help to the general population.

Challange MET. Call things for what they are. *IF Someone's wittle feewings gets hurt? *SO WHAT*?

Life is hard enough without sugarcoating it. Things are what they ARE. PC is DECIET of the Hightest order...And a way for Cowards to get away with horseshit.

 

[dilloduck]

I say political correctness is a very bad practice and it causes more problems than it "fixes". I believe the best policy is to call a spade a spade. It's truly defines it. It is well-understood by all and it cuts to the chase with no implied meanings. I challenge any of you to honestly say how political correctness has really been a help to the general population.

Challange MET. Call things for what they are. *IF Someone's wittle feewings gets hurt? *SO WHAT*?

Life is hard enough without sugarcoating it. Things are what they ARE. PC is DECIET of the Hightest order...And a way for Cowards to get away with horseshit.

We can thank shitty application of civil rights laws for PC.

 

[boedicca]

Political correctness is a method to instill group think and make people fear speaking out. It's one of the bigger soft threats to our liberty.

 

[Lumpy 1]

I have a hard time keeping up with it..

Is it African Americans or Blacks.. or something else

Is it illegal aliens or undocumented workers or migrants or something else

Is it terrorists or disgruntled Muslims or something else

Is it white guy or honky, redneck, cracker, etc..

The government could at least come up with a monthly list on the freedoms of speech they feel should be taken away..

Dammit I'm confused...

 

[syrenn]

in terms of "names" for people or groups. Could they just make up their fucking minds what they want to be called and stick with it?

 

[dilloduck]

Political correctness is a method to instill group think and make people fear speaking out. It's one of the bigger soft threats to our liberty.

Well said, split tail !

 

[chanel]

I call a spade a spade. I try not to offend but I will talk about race with my black friends and refuse to censor myself. I once used the word "poor kids" to describe kids on a free lunch. I took a lot of heat for that. "Poor" is racist now according to the PC dictionary.

 

[syrenn]

I call a spade a spade. I try not to offend but I will talk about race with my black friends and refuse to censor myself. I once used the word "poor kids" to describe kids on a free lunch. I took a lot of heat for that. "Poor" is racist now according to the PC dictionary.

They are economically disadvantaged. Sorry your poor.

 

[Si modo]

There once was a young person named Red Riding Hood who lived with her mother on the edge of a large wood. One day her mother asked her to take a basket of fresh fruit and mineral water to her grandmother's house--not because this was womyn's work, mind you, but because the deed was generous and helped engender a feeling of community. Furthermore, her grandmother was not sick, but rather was in full physical and mental health and was fully capable of taking care of herself as a mature adult.

So Red Riding Hood set off with her basket through the woods. Many people believed that the forest was a foreboding and dangerous place and never set foot in it. Red Riding Hood, however, was confident enough in her own budding sexuality that such obvious Freudian imagery did not intimidate her.

On the way to Grandma's house, Red Riding Hood was accosted by a wolf. who asked her what was in her basket. She replied, "Some healthful snacks for my grandmother, who is certainly capable of taking care of herself as a mature adult."

The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone."

Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid, worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way."

Red Riding Hood walked on along the main path. But, because his status outside society had freed him from slavish adherence to linear, Western-style thought, the wolf knew a quicker route to Grandma's house. He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself. Then, unhampered by rigid, traditionalist notions of what was masculine or feminine, he put on Grandma's nightclothes and crawled into bed.

Red Riding Hood entered the cottage and said, "Grandma, I have brought you some fatfree, sodium-free snacks to salute you in your role of a wise and nurturing matriarch."

From the bed, the wolf said softly, "Come closer, child, so that I might see you."

Red Riding Hood said, "Oh, I forgot you are as optically challenged as a bat. Grandma, what big eyes you have!"

"They have seen much, and forgiven much, my dear."

"Grandma, what a big nose you have, only relatively, of course, and certainly attractive in its own way."

"It has smelled much, and forgiven much, my dear."

"Grandma, what big teeth you have!"

The wolf said, "I am happy with who I am and what I am," and leaped out of bed. He grabbed Red Riding Hood in his claws, intent on devouring her. Red Riding Hood screamed, not out of alarm at the wolf's apparent tendency toward crossdressing, but because of his willful invasion of her personal space.

Her screams were heard by a passing woodchopperperson (or log-fuel technician, as he preferred to be called). When he burst into the cottage, he saw the melee and tried to intervene. But as he raised his ax, Red Riding Hood and the wolf both stopped.

"And just what do you think you're doing?" asked Red Riding Hood.

The woodchopper-person blinked and tried to answer, but no words came to him.

"Bursting in here like a Neanderthal, trusting your weapon to do your thinking for you!" she exclaimed. "Sexist! Speciesist! How dare you assume that womyn and wolves can't solve their own problems without a man's help!"

When she heard Red Riding Hood's impassioned speech, Grandma jumped out of the wolf's mouth, seized the woodchopperperson's ax, and cut his head off. After this ordeal, Red Riding Hood, Grandma, and the wolf felt a certain commonality of purpose. They decided to set up an alternative household based on mutual respect and cooperation, and they lived together in the woods happily ever after.​

Little Red Riding Hood
from Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner. Copyright 1994 by James Finn Garner. Published by Macmillan Publishing USA.

 

[syrenn]

I have a hard time keeping up with it..

Is it African Americans or Blacks.. or something else

Is it illegal aliens or undocumented workers or migrants or something else

Is it terrorists or disgruntled Muslims or something else

Is it white guy or honky, redneck, cracker, etc..

The government could at least come up with a monthly list on the freedoms of speech they feel should be taken away..

Dammit I'm confused...

I have the hardest time with what black people want to be called.

They (rightly so) didn't want to be called ******. Then we have black. Then we have negro. Now we have aferican American.

Is it the National aferican American college fund? or the Nation Negro college fund.

Can white south afericans call them selves "aferican American" considering they are not black.

It was UN PC to call a black person ******. However it IS PC for a black person to call a different black person ******.

WTF?

 

[dilloduck]

Who enforces PC speech ?

 

[Valerie]

Who enforces PC speech ?

I thought it was you?

 

[Oddball]

Who enforces PC speech ?

To a large degree, weak-willed people who often allow the approval of others to determine their self-esteem.

 

[dilloduck]

Who enforces PC speech ?

I thought it was you?

na---I just monitor reality---

 

[The T]

Who enforces PC speech ?

No one except the recipient...and I mean by calling OUT the user of such tripe OUT for their horseshit...Early, and often.

 

[The T]

Who enforces PC speech ?

To a large degree, weak-willed people who often allow the approval of others to determine their self-esteem.

Exactly. People whom use PC Hosrsesqueeze are insecure people within themselves. They should be called on it.

 

[dilloduck]

Who enforces PC speech ?

To a large degree, weak-willed people who often allow the approval of others to determine their self-esteem.

Is that similar to guilt ?