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thishereboi -> RE: News from the Society for the Perpetually Offended (3/22/2015 5:45:24 AM)
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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer
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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. [;)]
Yeah...Silly Americans...expecting the people we vote into office to respect the dignity of the office and just do their job there and not use the space for fucking their interns, especially when the officeholder is married to someone else and they're doing the fucking around on our dime. How provincial of us to expect someone who's going to preach to us about how to behave to expect him/her to behave in a respectful manner.
You missed something though, Peon. I never said that there aren't those on the right who don't get offended. In fact I noted that there are indeed people on the right who get offended. And when they try to legislate because of their FEELINGS on the subject and not with facts, they rightly get shot down. That's why I find Rand Paul's stance on gay marriage ridiculous but he does have one fact right...While there is science that proves heterosexuality is not a choice, there is yet to be scientific proof that there is a genetic structure pertaining to homosexuality not being a choice. BUT, he's still operating on his feelings and opinions more than he is on that fact... But he's entitled to his feelings. However, when he tries to legislate his stance, based on his own feelings, he's wrong. If he tries to legislate it based on just his constituents feelings, he's wrong. If they can present facts...not just feelings...then they have that right.
But...the same holds true for the left. A person's hurt feelings don't really matter. Hurt because someone won't bake a gay wedding cake for you? Tough. Find someone who will. You have no right to force someone to bake you a wedding cake, based on your hurt feelings. Nor do you have the right to force someone to tolerate your views while disregarding theirs.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/frenchrevolution/2015/02/24/question-for-the-new-york-times-if-gays-are-offended-do-christians-have-rights/
Well said as usual. Personally I could give a rats ass how many women he had sex with. My problem was when he went on national tv and told the kids that a blow job is ok because it's not really sex. A couple years after that my friend who works with kids was counseling an young boy and asked him why he thought getting a blow job was acceptable and he told her that the president had said it wasn't sex and there wasn't anything wrong with it. If he wants to fuck around on shrillary then have at it, just don't announce to the world what a great fellow you are for having done so.
Oh and Peon, I can understand why you think we would care that you folks cringe at what we do, but we don't. really [8|]
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