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PeonForHer -> RE: News from the Society for the Perpetually Offended (3/9/2015 8:27:03 PM)
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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
So while I and a great many other people had every right to be offended by his affair, we had no right to legislate our views into the law. The same holds true for many of the grievances brought forth by the perpetually offended.
I agree. People had a right to be offended. It seems that a few people here are offended, at least a bit, by my having brought up the subject of Monica's gristle-gobbling of Bill's todger. Oh no! That isn't about the sort of stuff at which we can all snort - that's *really* offensive!
But it isn't, of course. The USA made itself look more ridiculous in the eyes of the rest of the world, than it had done for the century before that incident. No one outside the USA thought, for even a second, that Clinton getting a chew outside of his marriage, *on its own*, would have the slightest impact on his efficacy as a president. It was downright embarrassing watching the USA's politics at that time. This side of the pond, we cringed like we'd never done before, nor probably have since.
What gets me, I have to say, about this sort of topic and the much-loved term 'political correctness' - especially the latter - is that it's a term designed to focus on things that those on the left find offensive. (Or *might* find offensive - if one pushes the needle far enough.) There is no such thing as 'right wing political correctness' - given the way that term has so carefully been crafted over the years. However, it's actually a piece of cake to find things - actually many, many things - that righties find offensive and which we on the left find silly or even outright ludicrous. Those sorts of things never, ever fall under the general rubric of 'political correctness', natch. Not to worry. That doesn't matter - we lefties don't need them to fit into that category.
I'm just saying. I would gently suggest to righties here: don't push your luck. [;)]
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