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thompsonx -> RE: Freedom Fries (11/6/2007 2:36:05 PM)
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ORIGINAL: EPGAH
PC these days just refers to the ridiculously long and high-sounding titles that you can attach to anything to make it SOUND better and/or more "equal", but not change the actual nature of the concept.
You are absolutely correct. You popeye and seeks are among the most politically correct people on these boards. You would never use words like "nigger,spick,gook,kike etc. It is far more politically correct to call them by less obviously bigoted terms so you can maintain some semantic claim to credibility.
Garbagemen bcome "Sanitation engineers"
Whores become "escorts" (In the old days, "escort" was the armed guard meant to make sure a given person reached a designated location--for or against their will, depending...Now it's just a dodge from the anti-prostitution laws...)
Which "old days" are you referring to? It would appear that you attended one of those schools that you constantly claim have been "dummed down" The word escort is not always an armed guard. I am really sorry you led such a deprived scholastic regimen.
Stewardesses become "flight attendants"
Some still call them stewardesses and their male counterparts stewards but the term flight attendant is the generic term that describes them both.
(This might have been to justify demanding higher wages, while the pilots' union allowed a pay CUT? Something backwards about that,
Perhaps you might enlighten us as to how much money the pilots were making and how much the flight attendants were making.
but then, of all the things I've been accused of, political correctness is NOT one of them!)
As has been previously mentioned you are one of the more PC posters on these boards.
Terrorists become "insurgents" or even the noble "Freedom Fighters"!
The British referred to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson as "terrorist" while we like to think of them as "Freedom Fighters".
And of course, stereotypes are AUTOMATICALLY bad, xenophobic, evil, and Nazi/Fascist, regardless of if you use the stock stereotypes, or form your own, based on the characters around you. (And believe me, there's a LOT of living stereotypes around here! You could make your own sitcom, just based on the "stereotypes" living around here--I've mentioned that before in other threads, and been called down on it!)
It's also fashionable now to sweep under the rug statistics that would hurt the "feelings" of other groups...Such as if you point out that "minorities" have magically comprised the majority of the prison populations,
I am not sure this is true...would you be so kind as to give us a citation to verify this?
then either you're racist or the System is...NOT that perhaps they FEEL they have nothing to lose by fighting the System, perhaps? Or that they feel their "needs" more strongly, and therefore feel that their "needs" overpower the value of conforming to society's constraints?
Are you referring to the societal constraints imposed by "Plessy v. Ferguson" and struck down by "Brown v. Board of Education"?
(The latter being a popular excuse for illegal aliens--er "undocumented immigrants"![;)]) Or the slightly more ridiculous assertion that our SAT has "cultural bias"
That would seem to be your position considering how much you whine about how little you are paid.
...I can agree partially with that: If your "culture" doesn't value learning English and math (with ARABIC numerals--GASP![;)]), then it will be "biased" against you! However, "cultural sensitivity reforms" have eliminated the analogies part, which would seem to an objective standpoint to be a tacit admission that minorities are somehow less capable at logic problems?
I am sure this must have meant something to you when you wrote it but it has escaped my grasp in its printing.
However, how much can--or should--we handicap the "better" among us to let the "lesser" people catch up?
Perhaps you might tell us just who and how,the "better" among us, have been "handicapped" by helping the "lesser" people to catch up?
And are we doing ourselves any favors, internationally speaking, by doing so? Other countries seem to do well with a more "Darwinian" educational/legal system,
Which countries are these?
or at least NOT let themselves be guilted into things, blackmailed into it with the amazing threat of, "You better...or we'll call you RACIST!"[:-]
Japan, especially, has a bad case of institutionalized racism, only that they're so much more polite about it, and have even rewritten their own history to show themselves as martyrs, rather than aggressors. (Of course, if Americans hadn't been so "inferior" to them, perhaps we could have helped them "get the message" in ONE nuke, rather than two?)
Perhaps if you had actually studied a little history you would have known that Japan started trying to surrender in 1943.
Or the illegals, marching in our streets for "rights" they haven't earned
How could you possibly know the immigration status of all the people marching in the street?
(even if "earning" is just standing in a super-long line and paying the fees to the LEGAL employees, rather than they coyotes, and/or returning home when their TEMPORARY visas run out? [;)]) Then demanding "justice", and being SO upset, when the law-enforcers try to give them the justice they're demanding!
I find it curious that you fail to comprehend the difference between justice and assault under color of authority.
(Although to be fair, when have any other class of criminals demanded "justice", or said that their crimes would "help them get a better life"--and actually used that as an excuse--or used their kids to guilt the Law into leaving them alone? If that worked, bank-robbers would just have kids in vast quantities and be forgiven en-masse, since stealing massive amounts of money ALWAYS makes one's life better, and/or ones' kids,
A bank robber steals money and an illegal alien works for the money....why is that so difficult for you to comprehend?
especially now, with the expensive toys hawked on TV! They call it "childrens' programming" perhaps because it programs the children?[;)])
Hell, we don't even have welfare anymore, we have "entitlements"
If that were true then why is the federal agency that administers the entitlements called HEW (Health Education and Welfare)?
--people are "entitled" to money--more money than most entry-level jobs--just for existing?! No wonder people want to sneak into our country! They want a piece of that Gravy Train too!
EVERY culture now, though, wants to be the victim,
You seem to be at the very front of the victim line, constantly whining about how the "scum" is fleecing you.
and wants "reparations" or special protections for it, though, and it just gets wearisome after awhile, especially if you were brought up with such outdated concepts as "taking responsibility"
I would agree you seldom seem to want to take responsibility for your behavior...why is that?
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And yes, I AM politically incorrect, and have taken a massive pasting for it, past, present, and all predictable futures!
No you have taken a massive pasting for being ill informed,ignorant of history and being a bigot. You are, as stated previously, one of the most "PC" posters on the board.
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