Political correctness will destroy the free world

[MakeDigitalLove]

Everyone's a Little Bit Racist from Avenue Q addresses perfectly how absurd being politically correct all the time truly is!

No, not everyone is a little bit racist. Racist in not something that is inherit in us, it is taught.

 

[rareboy]

Everyone's a Little Bit Racist from Avenue Q addresses perfectly how absurd being politically correct all the time truly is!

Nope. Not true.

Frankly I don't care if someone is racist, or sexist, or a homophobe as long as their prejudice doesn't affect the rights of the people they are hating on and as long as they just openly own it and don't try to skulk around whining about PC because they think it somehow limits what they say or how they say it. There are people who think that using the terms Nigger or Kike should still be passable not only in public, but in discourse at a governmental or authority level. They are the ones howling the loudest about PC
protests.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

100 yr in life apees nice wordees 1915 ta 19 15 < civlizeds a plot lands a course fa rodents ans oda no fit suck teys garbage or refine shit
"yeeew fancy restaurant grub fa ya"
_1815 a 1915-
or lots

so civlized polt lands ans teys napkins wike suck it up

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[Kabluey]

The Polital Correctedness done gone killed mah babies.
Why'd you have to dooo that, PC????

 

[NotHardUp1]

No, not everyone is a little bit racist. Racist in not something that is inherit in us, it is taught.

I can't speak for him, but perhaps he meant there is a natural tendency toward cultural bias, and cultural bias surely does look like racism when it spans racial divides.

 

[gaysian85]

You all obviously have never listened nor paid attention to the song before. Listen to it and you'll see what I was trying to say was that being so politically correct all the time makes things more complicated and further drives us apart from each other.

 

[rareboy]

No. We get the point. It isn't that PC makes things more complicated and drives us further apart.

It is that it strips us naked and forces us to confront our thoughtless and often cruelly destructive prejudices and our use of language that reinforces our position of supposed superiority over another group.

 

[xbuzzerx]

No. We get the point. It isn't that PC makes things more complicated and drives us further apart.

It is that it strips us naked and forces us to confront our thoughtless and often cruelly destructive prejudices and our use of language that reinforces our position of supposed superiority over another group.

Team supporters: But the imagery HONORS YOU.

Tribe: How can that be when we are telling you we find that imagery incredibly offensive?

Team supporters: Tired of this PC bullshit

 

[zoltanspawn]

You make a wise observation here when reminding us that words convey different meanings, to different people.

Likewise, should we also stop issuing Masters of Fine Arts and cease Mastering the Art of French Cooking?

As another friend mentioned, it's a rather painless change to make if it improves the comfort of the community. I struggle to see good reason for the vexation, though.

Shall we Americans demand that the British stop smoking fags? (And what about eating faggots?! ) It would never occur to me to worry about or ask for such a change, but I wonder what other JUBlings think?

 

[xbuzzerx]

Should Princeton have re-named the leaders of its residential colleges "heads" because "masters" is vexing and anachronistic?

There is such a thing as faux or misplaced outrage.

Look at how some religious people with badly distorted ideas of what symbology represented the Christian traditional meaning of Christmas reacted to Starbucks cups.

However, virtually no one (outside of tumblr blogs by 17 year old white girls) would really disagree over something like "we shouldn't call it HIStory because it makes it sound owned by men", and that isn't what I see most people bitching over when they bring up political correctness as an obvious point of embitterment.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

There is such a thing as faux or misplaced outrage.

Look at how some religious people with badly distorted ideas of what symbology represented the Christian traditional meaning of Christmas reacted to Starbucks cups.

However, virtually no one (outside of tumblr blogs by 17 year old white girls) would really disagree over something like "we shouldn't call it HIStory because it makes it sound owned by men", and that isn't what I see most people bitching over when they bring up political correctness as an obvious point of embitterment.

no say notin
_ya tink?_

ssssh"

tinku

 

[Lifeafter30]

Political correctness although tiresome and detrimental to everyone right now can be helpful at the right times. I was recently in a situation where a person who exercised a lot of power over me was brought down a few notches by a government agency after they made offensive comments about me (they called me a "retard" in front of three other people) and I turned them in. It was the only way I could get them. And I did. Then a neighbor I didn't like who'd been annoying me for years shouted the word "nigger" directly under my window and I got it on tape. Didn't matter that I'm not black. Emailed the link to watch the video to the SPLC and informed them that there are blacks who reside in my building and that they easily could have heard this language too. Worked again. They sent a letter to the management company and now the scumbag neighbors think twice before shouting under my window.

 

[NotHardUp1]

There is such a thing as faux or misplaced outrage.

Look at how some religious people with badly distorted ideas of what symbology represented the Christian traditional meaning of Christmas reacted to Starbucks cups.

However, virtually no one (outside of tumblr blogs by 17 year old white girls) would really disagree over something like "we shouldn't call it HIStory because it makes it sound owned by men", and that isn't what I see most people bitching over when they bring up political correctness as an obvious point of embitterment.

But the instigation of this thread in the OP is a so-called Asian (not a race) attesting to a racist, anti-immigrant xenophobia that she experienced first-hand from blacks and was subsequently jeered for recounting. It had nothing to do with language -- it was almost a proof case for the argument that racism is not merely institutional.

BTW, the fact that the video labels the woman as an Asian is a perfect example of PC gone rampant. There is no such race as "Asian." It is a PC catch-all, as Indians have almost nothing but humanity in common with the Japanese.

The whole conversation has become so rarefied that the descriptors of race are not even tolerated. Caucasoid, Negroid, Mongoloid, etc., are not applicable, nor any real replacements. The discussion becomes sidetracked completely and race is not even described as race.

 

[xbuzzerx]

But the instigation of this thread in the OP is a so-called Asian (not a race) attesting to a racist, anti-immigrant xenophobia that she experienced first-hand from blacks and was subsequently jeered for recounting. It had nothing to do with language -- it was almost a proof case for the argument that racism is not merely institutional.

I would agree that distaste or resentment of foreign arrivals is virtually systemic in American culture. This can include many examples of exploitation and abuse, particularly surrounding the bureaucratic hoops of immigrating and securing employment.

I'd laugh at the notion that Asians are, as a group, subject to destructively racist mistreatment in policy, law or common social practice instigated by blacks.

 

[Draven]

The one thing I will give to American society and "political correctness" is that you won't get arrested and re-educated for going against it unlike in England and other parts of Great Britain. I mean sure stupid people in America say stupid things and they will out themselves as an idiot and society will more or less on its own decide to ignore/shun them, I think many Christian bakeries and redneck bigot gun-shops have gone out of business that way. Take the asshole in Florida who declared his store to be a "Muslim free" zone, as an independent store owner he can refuse service to anyone and conversely he can fuck himself in the ass by displaying his colors openly so it's a win/win. If he were in England...well he'd be running a cricket supply store or a crumpet shop (because you know, UK = no guns) but for the same comments he would have been whisked away and imprisoned long ago like the salon woman...Because England is such a super-liberal awesome thought-controlling place free of discrimination, how many people were arrested for crying "Death to America" or "Kill Christians"?

 

[NotHardUp1]

I would agree that distaste or resentment of foreign arrivals is virtually systemic in American culture. This can include many examples of exploitation and abuse, particularly surrounding the bureaucratic hoops of immigrating and securing employment.

I'd laugh at the notion that Asians are, as a group, subject to destructively racist mistreatment in policy, law or common social practice instigated by blacks.

But she was NOT arguing institutional racism. The rally was apparently for "Safe Space" and she was citing a recent example of when she was physically menaced because of her race. And the incident was not systemic, as it was random and the perpetrator had no plausible way of knowing she was an immigrant.

Her example had nothing to do with institutional abuse, thus her lack of PC definition of racism, which got her jeered (as just a victim with a personal story that didn't fit the mold, she didn't "get it.")

The example she raised indeed appeared to be good old-fashioned bigotry based on nothing other than her racial physical appearance.

 

[xbuzzerx]

But she was NOT arguing institutional racism. The rally was apparently for "Safe Space" and she was citing a recent example of when she was physically menaced because of her race. And the incident was not systemic, as it was random and the perpetrator had no plausible way of knowing she was an immigrant.

I was directly addressing YOUR commentary that the video was a "proof case" that racism isn't institutional. She was the target of bigoted bullying. And that's it.

 

[lambdaboy]

Any one who believes this and is gay, needs to have their head examined it has lead to some of the laws which barely save us from being treated like insane people. It is also for a Christian country the way so called Christianity teaches us about do on to others ect. If it was not around now it would be like the 50's and we would many be closet cases!

 

[gaysian85]

I say that this entire topic is proof that being PC is tearing society apart. Religious intolerance is a major factor as well.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

I say that this entire topic is proof that being PC is tearing society apart. Religious intolerance is a major factor as well.

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