Stupid Pc Bull

[melody1181]

I am so sick of hearing about how people are offeneded. Something at the grammys wherea group performed and had something to do with Native American...tee pee and dancers dressed up.

Then you have this crud with Conan O'Brien. He did something up there in Canada that offended the french Canadians in Quebec.

People need to get over stuff.

[travisab1]

melody1181;
Amen!!!

Travis

[williams919]

Totally agree with ya'll
Williams919

[BLUEHAWK]

I suppose it's one thing to take offense in person when the matter is private between people... but when it gets on the public airwaves it seems to me there is plenty to go around coming from every direction... and nobody has either much control of it nor much room to gripe.

In some ways it seems a lot of the PC stuff is the result of technology actually PREVENTING direct exchange of opinions between people... the call waiting, caller ID, voice mail systems, phone menus, answering machines, call blocking, and just plain downright not answering messages or not allowing messages to be conveyed.

Ever try to register a telephone complaint in person with the FCC? Don't bother, there is no way to do so.

Anyhow, I'm thinking some of this leads to people to go crying to their big brother to get out there and kick some butt FOR them... which is all PC really is, in the end, seems to me, eh?

etc etc etc

[Keith_Hixson]

They won't even let me tell:

Dixie HillyBilly Jokes anymore. or
Yankee Doodle Jokes either.

PC is to limit free political speech.

Keith

[SuperScout]

A student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill who said in class that he opposed homosexuality on religious grounds was later singled out by his professor as a monger of hate speech in an email to his fellow students, reports the News & Observer.

The professor, Elyse Crystall, has since apologized for referring to the student as "a white, heterosexual, [C]hristian male" who "can feel entitled to make violent, heterosexist comments and not feel marked or threatened or vulnerable."

In the email to students in her Literature and Cultural Diversity class wrote, "[W]hat we heard [T]hursday at the end of class constitutes 'hate speech' and is completely unacceptable. [I]t has created a hostile environment."

The incident has prompted some healthy soul-searching by the News & Observer about the limits of free speech and thought on North Carolina campuses.

[A closing thought: would somebody like to set up a poll to determine the typical political persuasion of people who would take a "politically correct" stance on these topics?]

[BLUEHAWK]

I've been ticked off about ever since they shucked Jimmy the Greek... grrrrrrrrrrr!

[reconeil]

"Political-correctness" being nothing more than political supremacy and/or self/slique-morally superior BULL,...I still wonder when all White, Hetorosexual Americans will become privy to such NONSENSE?

Hey,...and even though only truly knowledgable about Me and Mine,...I don't believe all White Hetorosexual Americans are really that bad a lot. Some of us too must be also a bit sensitive (myself excluded)? Some of us too might also get offended occasionally (myself excluded)? Some of us too would similarly like receiving governmental preferentialities and TRUE representation (myself included).

Besides, what ever happened to that: "EQUALITY" bit??? In current America can one ONLY be: "EQUAL" and be doubly represented if Black, Brown or Yellow??? It sure seems so. Hell,...IT IS SO!!!

Neil :d: :b:

[BLUEHAWK]

Recon - ever notice how criticism of a PC violation is so often tied to some form of economic benefit to the aggrieved party(s)?, eh?

[reconeil]

I and no doubt MANY OTHERS have most certainly noticed the tie-in to Economic Benefits to The Aggrieved,...even when no living person has actually been aggrieved at all, and only some ancient ancestors were.

After all, and since as: "We The (Schnooks)" are perpetually forced/dictated paying for such biasedly preferential NON$ENsE,...how-the-hell could ANYONE not notice such NON$EN$E perpetrated with MY/YOUR/OUR hard earned monies???

Neil, A Happy Taxpayer and/or Obedient Political Victim :d: :d: :d:

[BLUEHAWK]

Recon - yup, that is what really gets me, its almost as if some folks just WILL NOT get over it, or go on with life as IT IS... so much progress has been made, I don't see what most of the beefs are about if not anything more than a bigger share (or TOO big a share?) of the pie.

Drives me nuts, and just makes me ignore the talk even more deliberately.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[SparrowHawk62]

Figure I could hop on the PC band wagon but first I need to label myself!
So as an Irish-Italian/American, Straight Married Male, Navy Veteran who suffers from PTSD and is ADHD that has lost his job as an LEO. When do I get my parade?

[BLUEHAWK]

Sparrow -
Since you live in lower New York way too close to West Point (for a Squid), looks like we'll have to rally all of these PF Army units and start your parade along the old grey line which never fades away :D

p.s.
My dad was at WP, bass drummer, 1946

[SuperScout]

A British television commentator who used the phrases "suicide bombers, limb-amputators and women repressors" in reference to Arabs is becoming a cause-celebre for free speech after being suspended from his job at the BBC because of the comments.

In a column published Jan. 4 in London?s Sunday Express, Robert Kilroy-Silk also lashed out at Arab extremists who murdered 3,000 civilians on Sept. 11 and "danced in the hot, dusty streets" afterward.
The BBC immediately suspended him from his daily BBC-TV chat show following complaints from Muslim groups. Kilroy-Silk apologized for any offense taken, but Britain?s Commission for Racial Equality nevertheless said it would refer the article to police in case it incited race hate and violated public order laws.
In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Kilroy-Silk asserted his right to speak his mind.
"If I am not allowed to say that there are Arab states that are evil, despotic and treat women abominably, if I am not allowed to say that, which I know to be a fact, then what can I say?" he said.

[And silly me, I thought that Freedom of Speech etc, originated in the original Land of the Colonizers - wrong again! No wonder we threw those pesky Redcoats out, and righteously wrote the Bill of Rights. Now, stop, and give thanks that you live in America!]

[SparrowHawk62]

Originally posted by BLUEHAWK Sparrow -
Since you live in lower New York way too close to West Point (for a Squid), looks like we'll have to rally all of these PF Army units and start your parade along the old grey line which never fades away :D
p.s.
My dad was at WP, bass drummer, 1946

Don't take what I say about the Point to serious. I love the Point, great place. Can't beat the view of the Hudson, those stone buildings are a real sight to see. The Great Heros that have been schooled at the Point!! It is only that I am an Sailor at heart and the Point is for the Grunts.
No, I don't want a parade. I just want what is due me. I've finally gotten my NYS Property Tax credit. Some 13 years late!
I've managed to get some one to hear me and have filed for a PTSD claim. The loss of my job may be due to my not dealing properly with ADD/ADHA. So while I don't want a parade I am truely sick of the PC crowd wanting one for every stupid reason it can think of.

[BLUEHAWK]

Well, if'n you should ever be in need of a parade, we could form up more or less in uniform and present some arms... if it'd help any :D