Topic: Politicly Correct

[Caaveman82]

I have a theory that the worse off the economy is the more likely people are to get butt hurt about things. Or just be straight d!ck heads... weird.

which is odd, you'd think the tougher things get the more likely people would stop getting their panties in a twist over trival stuff and prioritize on the real issues. maybe things aren't bad enough.

we'll see when the next depression comes in about 8-10 years from now.


btw: i'm scot, french, german and embrace all stereotypes. 

uh... a  combative drunk ,snobbish coward, fascist who make chocolate to die for?

Or people are so worried about putting food on the table they get uptight about EVERYTHING.

[HavocTurbo]

Everyone's looking for a cheap buck.

Even me. 

[lynchj]

 Thanks for all the replies, I think I pushed a hot button on this one. Basically the entire world (or more correctly a few people spread out over the entire world) has this stupid overly sensitive problem, "I'm offended that you called me or my people a (fill in the blank)"

 If that's the case how on earth does "Family Guy" or "South Park" my 2 most favorite TV shows, manage to stay on the air? They can say anything they want, and they do. There is no topic left untouched and that's why I love watching them. They have to offend a lot of people. I guess the difference is, you don't have to watch it, if you don't like it then change the channel.

[HavocTurbo]

I wouldn't be so worried about it being a hot button.

90% of what was posted was me and everyone else being a bunch of jackasses.

But yes the USA needs a swift kick in the ass on this issue.

[tomsweb1]

It's a problem in Canada too. And it also annoys the crap out of me. A school on the east coast has stopped playing our national antem every morning because it 'offends those of other cultures' because it has references to God. A family had actually complained about this. If you don't like it, go back to your country, listen to your national anthem, and risk having your life, and the lives of your loved ones taken away by civil unrest. Or, shove it and stay here.

[bucky katt]

I have a theory that the worse off the economy is the more likely people are to get butt hurt about things. Or just be straight d!ck heads... weird.

which is odd, you'd think the tougher things get the more likely people would stop getting their panties in a twist over trival stuff and prioritize on the real issues. maybe things aren't bad enough.

we'll see when the next depression comes in about 8-10 years from now.


btw: i'm scot, french, german and embrace all stereotypes.  


uh... a  combative drunk ,snobbish coward, fascist who make chocolate to die for?

i'm sicilian/scot so I'm pretty much a hot tempered bastid that wears a skirt from time to time.

[Gordon]

i'm sicilian/scot so pretty much a hot tempered bastid that wears a skirt from time to time.

Those crazy, skirt-wearing Sicilians!!!

[Retro Rocket]

What i can't work out is that we live in a democratic society where majority rules so why is it every time some minority clown complains the friggin laws are changed.......somethings not quite right about that..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Its kinda like watching a TV show that you don't like and then complaining about it, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT THEN DON'T WATCH......

Mick

[Frankencake]

What i can't work out is that we live in a democratic society where majority rules so why is it every time some minority clown complains the friggin laws are changed.......somethings not quite right about that..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Its kinda like watching a TV show that you don't like and then complaining about it, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT THEN DON'T WATCH......

Mick

Majority does rule.  UNLESS a judge decides otherwise.  That's how the law works.  It is "interpreted"by a judge and if he thunk that you can't fart in public, well then, you had better pucker up buttercup.

[HavocTurbo]

you know what part of the ol isle fuzz?

Palermo for me...

[Buber]

It's a problem in Canada too. And it also annoys the crap out of me. A school on the east coast has stopped playing our national antem every morning because it 'offends those of other cultures' because it has references to God. A family had actually complained about this. If you don't like it, go back to your country, listen to your national anthem, and risk having your life, and the lives of your loved ones taken away by civil unrest. Or, shove it and stay here.

You are perfectly right , and take a look that somehow it is the democracy kicking itself. or example you have plenty of muslims that immigrated to other countries complaint about lack of gov funds for building mosques, or complaining about anything else, yet somehow no christians can be heard from muslim countries. Is that because they get full gov support for building churches? No, that's because in non-democracies nobody gives a damm. I just wonder how far the democracy will go that way, before it will will collapse, because all minorities are using it to their own selfish purposes (like unions for example).
And you know what's funny? The spell checker tried to correct every "muslim" and "christian" in this post to make it written with capital in front. And yet I'm an atheist and couldn't;t give a damm about it (yet, it didn't want to put capital in "atheist". That's even more funny, and politically incorrect  )

I personally don't care, just use common sense.

P.S. when i read post about indians native americans first nations whatever else you want to call those people - in Europe they are still called Indians... There are even mock-up tribes dressing and all, and they call themselves "indians". People are funny....

Still, good topic for heated discussion, but it's gonna achieve absolutely nothing. 

[bucky katt]

What i can't work out is that we live in a democratic society where majority rules so why is it every time some minority clown complains the friggin laws are changed.......somethings not quite right about that..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Its kinda like watching a TV show that you don't like and then complaining about it, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT THEN DON'T WATCH......

Mick

+1000

[bucky katt]

you know what part of the ol isle fuzz?

Palermo for me...

Catania and Ragusa

[Buber]

No, no gentleman, diving off Messina, by Scylla and Charybdis, that's the thing! there's even sunken WW2 German transport vessel where you can still see beemers in the hold. Awesome!
And of course, Taormina 

[bucky katt]

i'm going to attempt to learn italian because i want to eventually visit/re-commect with my moms side of the family. i dont like going someplace when i cant speak the local language

[donny]

Where wifey teaches gets calls all the time from far away
 "do gooders" who complain that the school mascot is "Chiefs".
They are told, "this school is 100% Native American" (on a reservation). 
They want to say "kiss my brown ass", and we don't give a shat that you want a change,  but are polite.
And they are native.
Most don't mind being called "Indian".
One or two "activists" insist on "Native".

[Slayer]

What i can't work out is that we live in a democratic society where majority rules so why is it every time some minority clown complains the friggin laws are changed.......somethings not quite right about that..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Its kinda like watching a TV show that you don't like and then complaining about it, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT THEN DON'T WATCH......

Mick

I agree, the fact that we have become too PC but I think that the minority is afraid of the fact that they can be pushed around by the majority. Prejudice will never go away so people sometimes think everyone is out to get them. I must have missed the analogy though. Human rights is not like watching T.V. Should Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi have "changed the channel?"

“That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world” - John Adams

[Retro Rocket]

I understand what you are saying Slayer but i was referring to current PC.

Mick

[kghost]

I'm Offended that Politically is mispelled in the title of this thread 

For those that wish to speak PC.....

A Criminal - unsavory character
A Crook - morally (ethically) challenged
Abortion - Near-Life Experience
Alcoholic - Anti-Sobriety Activist
Alive - temporarily metabolically abled.
An Immigrant - a newcomer
Assassination - involuntary term limitation
Bald - comb-free
Bald - folically independent
Bald - follicularly challenged.
Battle Fatigued - shellshocked
Blind - optically darker
Blind - photonically non-receptive
Blind - visually challenged
Body Odor - nondiscretionary fragrance.
Broken Down Automobile - mechanically challenged
Broken Home - Dysfunctional Family
Bum - Displaced Homeowner
Bum - Homeless Person
Bum - Involuntarily Domiciled
Cannibalism - Intra-Species Dining
Censorship - Selective Speech
Cheating - Academic Dishonesty
China - Porcelain
Chronically Late - Temporarily Challenged
Clumsy - uniquely coordinated
Commercial Fisherman - Flipper Whipper
Computer Illiterate - Technologically Challenged
Corpse - Permanently Static Post-Human Mass
Corpse / Stiff - Metabolically Challenged
Corpse / Stiff - Terminally Inconvenienced
Cowardly - Challenge Challenged
Cowboys - bovine control officers
Crackpot - certified astrological consultant, certified crystal therapist, or certified past-life regression hypnotist
Crime Rate - street activity index
Dead - Actuarially Mature
Dead - biologically challenged
Dead - environmentally correct human
Dead - living impaired
Dead - metabolically challenged
Dead - persons living with entropy
Deaf - Visually Oriented
Delicatessen - Corpse Farm
Dirty Old Man - sexually focused chronologically gifted individual
Dish Washer - utensil sanitizer
Dishonest - Ethically disoriented.
Dorm - Residence Hall
Drooling Drunk Idiot - person on floor
Drowning - aquatically challenged
Drug Addict - Chemically Challenged
Drunk - spacially perplexed
Drunk / Junkie - in recovery
Earthquake - geological correction
Fail - achieve a deficiency.
Fat - Differently Weighted
Fat - gravitationally challenged
Fat - horizontally challenged.
Fat - horizontally gifted
Fat - People of Mass
Fat - person of substance
Fictional / Mythological - ontologically challenged
Freshman - first-year student
Frog - amphibian American
Full of Crap - fecally plenary
Gang - Youth Group
Garbage Man - sanitation engineer
Gas Station Attendent - petroleum transfer technician
Geek, Nerd, whatever... - socially challenged
Ghetto / Barrio - Ethnically Homogenous Area
Hamburger - Seared Mutilated Animal Flesh
Handicapped - Differently Abled, Handi-Capable
Having PMS - cyclically challenged
Hearing Person - temporarily aurally abled
Homeless - outdoor urban dwellers
Homeless - residentially flexible
Homelessness - Mortgage-Free Living
Housebroken - Family Disfunction
Housewife - domestic engineer
Hunter - Animal Assassin
Hunter - Bambi Butcher
Hunter - Meat Mercenary
Ignorant - factually unencumbered
Ignorant - knowledge-based nonpossessor.
Incompetent - Differently Qualified
Incompetent - Specially Skilled
Incompetent - Uniquely Proficient
Insane People - Mental Explorers
Insane People - Selectively Perceptive
Insult - Emotional Rape
Janitor - sanitation engineer
Klutz - kinesthetically challenged
Large Nose - nasally gifted
Lazy - motivationally dispossessed
Lazy - motivationally deficient.
Learning Disability - Self-Paced Cognitive Ability
Library - Educational Resource Center
Logger - Wood Weasel
Logger - Paper Pirate
Logger -Treeslayer
Loser - Second Place
Loser - uniquely fortuned individual on an alternative career path
Man-hole - maintenance hole
Mankind - humankind
MANkind, HuMAN, PerSON - Earth Children
Mercy Killing - Euthanasia
Mercy Killing - Putting Down/To Sleep/Out of Misery
Messy - differently organized
Meter Maid - Parking enforcer
Midget / Dwarf - Little People
Midget / Dwarf - Vertically Challenged
Mute/Dumb - verbally challenged
Not with somebody at the moment - romantically challenged -
Off - energy-efficient
Old - chronologically gifted
Old Person / Elderly - Gerontologically Advanced
Old Person / Elderly - Senior Citizens
Panhandler - Unaffiliated applicant for private-sector funding.
Paper Bag - processed tree carcass
Perverted - Sexually dysfunctional.
Pimp-mobile / Low-rider - Culturally Responsive Transportation Option
Plagiarism - Previously Owned Prose
Po' - financially inept
Policeman, Policewoman - law inforcement officer
Poor - economically marginalized
Poor - Economically Unprepared
Poor - monetarily challenged
Postman - letter carrier
Pregnant - parasitically oppressed.
Prisoner - client of the correctional system
Prostitute - sex care provider
Psychobabble - constructivist feminist psychotherapy
Psychopath - socially misaligned
Racist - genetically discriminating
Really Big Nosed - nasally disadvantaged
Redneck - person of region
Redneck - rustically inclined
Refugees - asylum seekers
Road Kill - Vehicularly Compressed Maladapted Life Form
Rudeness - Tact Avoidance
Runny Nose - nasally gifted
Senile Bag o' Bones - Alzheimer's Victim
Serial-Killer - Person with difficult-to-meet needs.
Shoplifter - Cost-of-Living Adjustment Specialist
Short - vertically challenged
Sighted Person - temporarily visually abled
Slum - Economic Oppression Zone
Slut - suffering from a sex addiction (female)
Someone who has no other reason to park in a handicapped zone - morally handicapped
Spendthrift - negative saver.
Stained - creatively re-dyed
Steward, Stewardess - flight attendant
Stoned - Chemically inconvenienced.
Stud - suffering from a sex addiction (male)
Stupid - differently-brained
Stupid - intellectually impaired
The Elderly - Senior citizens
Thin - horizontally challenged
Thirsty - osmotically challenged
Tone Deaf - musically delayed
Too old/young - other aged
Too Tall - people of height
Tree-Hugger - environmental activist
Trees - Oxygen Exchange Units
Ugly - aesthetically challenged
Ugly - Cosmetically different.
Ugly - facially challenged
Unemployed - Involuntarily leisured.
Used Books - Recycled Books
Vagrant - Nonspecifically destinationed individual.
Vegetable - noble unconscious hero
Vice President - Post-Coronary Leader of the Free World
Vocal Minority - target equity group
Vomiting - Unplanned Reexamination of Recent Food Choices
Waiter, Waitress - food server
War-Monger - Peacekeeper, patriot
Welfare Bum - economically disadvantaged
Whaler - Blubber Lover
White - melanin-impoverished
White American - racially challenged
White Boy - rhythmically challenged
White Trash - caucasian culturally-disadvantaged
Wife - unpaid sex slave
Worst - least best.
Wrong - differently logical.

[Hush]

Sorry Kghost my partner works in a petrol station and they prefer to be called "tetrocarbon transfer technicians".
As opposed to "Gas Station Attendent - petroleum transfer technician" but I think she is just being PC!

[lynchj]

Thanks for the list Kghost, nice!
I really like the title for gas station attendant "tetrocarbon transfer technician" too.

[Frankencake]

stoned= chemically inconvenienced.
Frog - amphibian American

[Slayer]

Involuntarily leisured... too funny 

[74cb750]

kghost, nice list

While in college my nickname was Canuck, this was before the pc crowd took over.

Vermont wouldn't allow me to put it on my license plate! I wrote them and pointed out it is the name of a hockey team, but no go.
 

[tomsweb1]

I know most of you are from the States, but I'm sure you all can appreciate this:

A Letter to the Editor (excellent letter)

 So many letter writers have explained how this land is made up of
 immigrants. May be we should turn to our history books and point out
 to
 people why today's Canadian is not willing to accept the new kind of
 immigrant any longer.

 Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to
 Canada, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in
 Halifax
 and be documented. Some would even get down on their hands and knees
 and
 kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support
 their
 new country in good and bad times. They made learning English a
 primary
 rule in their new Canadian households and some even changed their
 names to
 blend in with their new home. They had waved good bye to their birth
 place
 to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to
 help their children assimilate into one culture.

 Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labour
 laws to
 protect them. All they had were the skills, craftsmanship and desire
 they
 had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.

 Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out.
 Canadians
 fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from
 Germany,
 Italy, France, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Russia,Sweden,Poland and so many
 other places. None of these first generation Canadians ever gave any
 thought about what country their parents had come from. They were
 Canadians fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan. They
 were
 defending the Freedom as one people. When we liberated  France, no-
 one in
 those villages was looking for the Ukrainian-Canadian or the
 German-Canadian or the Irish-Canadian. The people of France saw only
 Canadians.

 And we carried one flag that represented our country. Not one of those
 immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country's
 flag
 and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a
 disgrace to
 their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants
 truly knew what it meant to be a Canadian. They stirred the melting
 pot
 into one red and white bowl.

 And here we are in 2009 with a new kind of immigrant who wants the
 same
 rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a
 different set of rules, one that includes a Canadian passport and a
 guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I'm sorry,
 that's not
 what being a Canadian is all about. Canadians have been very open-
 hearted
 and open-minded regarding immigrants, whether they were fleeing
 poverty,
 dictatorship, persecution, or whatever else makes us think of those
 aforementioned immigrants who truly did ADOPT our country, and our
 flag
 and our morals and our customs. And left their wars, hatred, and
 divisions
 behind. I believe that the immigrants who landed in Canada in the
 early
 1900s deserve better than that for the toil, hard work and sacrifice
 those
 legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled
 that
 they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country
 flags,
 fighting foreign battles on our soil, making Canadians change to suit
 their religions and cultures, and wanting to change our countries
 fabric
 by claiming discrimination when we do not give in to their demands.

 Its about time we get real and stand up for our forefathers rights,
 we are
 CANADIAN Lest we forget it!!! I am a Native of this Country & proud
 of it!

            NO MORE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
        NO MORE not saying CHRISTMAS in stores and our schools!
             MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!
           I Want my Canada of birth BACK !!! 

I got this in an e-mailo, and i thought of this thread., thought I'd share it.