You must act with modals and education. A joke is good, and if someone doesn't get it it's his problem.
But there's a lot of people who really seems to don't understand that there's a time to stop the jokes and be serious.
You must act with modals and education. A joke is good, and if someone doesn't get it it's his problem.
But there's a lot of people who really seems to don't understand that there's a time to stop the jokes and be serious.
PC is just full of hypocrisy. Saying the same thing in more words doesn't change the nature of the thing or the intent of saying it.
I wonder how many of those "not goods" are minorities, I would assume none.
Lets make a deal, if people stopped judging others because of their race and stop discriminating as well then we could stop being political correct....
Just like to point out there is a difference between not being politically correct and being a bigot. There are difference between jokes and being degrading. The reason why we have those jokes is to make light of people being degrading. Not cool to call a woman a bitch, but I fine with calling a bitch a bitch.
Last edited by PACOX; 2012-03-09 at 05:15 PM.
i agree with the sentiment- don't treat people differently based on gender/ethnicity/religion/sexuality/whatever, but this PC nonsense is the wrong way to go about it- it's just words. The actual words are irrelevant, it's the intentions and meanings behind them that really matter- i despise discrimination of all kinds, but the notion that there is one 'acceptable' term for a group of people and all other terms, even though they're just descriptions, are somehow offensive, is just absurd. case in point (albeit a minor one): we're not supposed to say 'policeman' or 'policewoman', we're supposed to say police officer. another example: the PC term is Caucasian, not white. It's just a description, an adjective, nothing negative is meant, so why the fuss?
Take a look at this link to see more stupidity from people pandering to be more PC...
http://www.capc.co.uk/ridiculous_pol...orrectness.htm
That poll is way to black and white. However i voted not good because it has gotten quite ridiculous.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Never seen Blazing Saddles but I agree about the books. When we read the books in school, I was the only black kid in the class. I just shock my head at how awkward the other kids acted. How hard is it to just skip over a word if you find it offense, we all have the book in front of us...This wasn't your average class, we all understood the historical context of the book (on another note, no one dared read the word out loud though because their were some smart asses in the class who would try to use the book to see how far they could get with saying to word so I was ready to flip a table if the slightest condescending remark came out of one of those kids mouths). Unnecessary censorship halts progress.
It's useful in certain situations, but I think we've gone completely overboard with it.
No its not good. Neither is bigotry, though.
No, it means the poll is biased by including such a non-objective quote in the OP, nothing more.
It'd be like
"Do you think Obama is a bad president"? as a poll, and then linking to a birther website or other wingnut site right underneath it.
If OP just wants a bunch of people to chime in saying "yeah I hate PC too, grrrrrrrr!", then he should just say so.