It's kinda funny now-a-days how things have gotten so PC (Politicaly
Correct). I remember when Flight Attendents where called "Stewardists".
The Reson I bring this up is because a fellow Shipmate at my command was
selling Girl Scout Cookies and I happen to be a sucker for Thin Mints and
Samoas. Now you remember the cookie thats has caramel, chocolate and
coconut shavings right? They WHERE called Samoas, now they are called
something complealy differant because people where getting "Offended"
because people called them "Samoans". What the fuck is that? Who gives a
shit. I think the best example of satire on this subject was South Parks
Christmas episode where they counldnt have a "Christmas" Play because the
word "Christmas" upset the Jews and it all snow balled down from there.
OH! and i also got some stupid ass chain letter in the E-Mail and the basis
was someone rebutteling on how someone said "How could god let this
happen?" Talking about Sept. 11th. Then it all went on about how we
kicked god out of our schools, work and home and why he should care. Then
talking about how music, video\computer games and TV Violence ENCOURAGED
teen violence. Ive played video games aslong as i can remember, and i
turned out ok....
My point is that People take things way to seriously. Now I want to know
what you all to tell about some PC things that you have heard. Pros and
Cons people, i dont want a debate.
-Thanks, Morte.
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ravinsaend
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posted on 16/1/2003 at 12:39 AM
Around the US a large number of schools are doing exactly what they did in
that south park episode.
kicking christmas out.
Christmas parties in alot of schools are now "holiday" parties, in some
schools the kids aren't allowed to wear anything having to do with
christmas..right down to wearing the colors green and red together.
Kids are getting suspended from school in some places for telling their
classmates and school faculty "Merry Christmas".
They get sent home and told to change if they come to school with anything
that has specifically to do with christmas, or christmas colors.
Some schools have even put bans against kids and faculty wearing crosses to
school.
This country is going WAY too far to be "politically correct".
What the hell happened to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and all
that?
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IamSquid
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posted on 16/1/2003 at 04:04 AM
Yeah and I'm 99% certain the people who were "offended" by the Samoas were
rich white people with nothing better to do. PC is one of the most
dispicable plagues on contemporary social behavior in the US.
Yoo will NEVER hear a politician say the word "faggot" because that's
offensive but they WILL make a law that forbids gays to marry one another.
Why? Who cares? Even if yoo hate gay people, why would yoo care? Yoo
have to not only hate gay people but also be a total fucker to make a law
like that so yoo might as well go and call them faggots so we know what yor
all about, yoo two-faced pieces of shit!
PC is just a silly "watch-yor-ass" game for the masses. How to speak to
sheep, step one: PC!
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i wanted to die, and then it progressed into wanting everyone else to
die so i could watch, and then me die.
PC came about for a very good reason, but people have taken it WAY WAY too
far. How is it the fault of the poor cookie if people screw up their
names? God, don't tell me they were renamed to "pacific islander" cookies.
If they were I"m going to shoot myself.
And squid, of COURSE they aren't going to outright call them fags, they
perfer the WAY more PC "hommasexshul".
K dolo here ya go:
PC PRO's. Makes it more difficult and socially stigmatizing to assholes
who run around using "nigger" and "faggot" and "spic" and so on and so on
(unless of course you belong to that group, which gives you magical powers
to talk like a racist, for some reason). Plus, people who are too stupid to
be able to HIDE their racism easier to pick out, and hit with a brick.
PC Con's. Only effective on the racisism side to make morons make their
hatred SOUND smart. Plus, it gives the panty pissers liscence to freak
over any word they decide they don't like anymore, change it, feel special
and unique, then hate it again and change it a decade later. Plus, as with
the South Park episode, it snowballed.
Hell cartoon network eliminated all of it's speedy gonzollas (spelled?)
cartoons so as not to "offend our more sensitive spanish american
viewers"....yet they'd never had a complaint, and in fact speedy gonzollas
is the TOP cartoon character south of the american border, a HERO in the
cartoon world, and hell. The south americans think he's hillarious...all
those wacky ways of defeating el gringo pusssygato.
Schools and their wave of PCism.....Oh dear, where do I begin. I'll try to
keep it short.
IT'S NOT THE KIDS THAT HAVE A PROBLEM IT'S THEIR PARENTS.
I don't think that xmas should be celebrated BY the school...tho so far
removed from religion now, it might as well be a secular holiday (or is it
non secular? Ah hell it's early, cut me some slack), but as it remains,
it's religious, and shouldn't be supported by a school. Does that mean
that the kids that choose to celebrate it shouldn't be allowed to wear xmas
colors or stuff? Hell no! I'm a friggin SATANIST and I don't care if the
kid sitting next to my little demon in the 5th grade is wearing candy cane
earings or not! I don't care if the kid next to my kid is wearing a cross,
or a pentagram, or a star of david, or any other religious symbol. Who
cares?
Schools now have become a vast sea of grey...don't give them any stimulus,
don't give them any reason to think other than what we tell them, dont'
give them anything to get upset about. Bullshit I say, BULLSHIT! A
perfectly good idea of PC to keep racist shit down was totally destroyed
and turned into a channel for people (mostly adults) to use "the children"
as a catylist to fullfill their own ideals of the world, and get back at
the few morons that hurt their feelings decades ago. It's not to help make
the world a better place, it's to make it an endless sea of grey,
unstimulating, BOORING sameness...where nobody steps on each other's toes.
They've figured out (they think they have anyway) that people can't handle
themselves and others around them, so they think instead of TEACHING them
about all the things that make the world up, they'll throw a sheet over it
and say "nope, no pink elephant here".
All those insults now, for different things, once stood as kind words.
Idiot, moron, and retard were once kind and scientific words for the
handicapped and developmentally disabled...until the general public got
ahold of it and turned it into an insult, then were ashamed of themselves,
blamed it on someone else, and then changed it.
GACK! SOrry dolo, I'll shut up now. I shouldn't be typing. I'm so tired I
can barely read what I'm putting down *lol*
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Merry_Widow
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posted on 16/1/2003 at 03:22 PM
What pissed me off was when those idoiot stay at home moms (the ones
usually running these things) got their grubby fat fingers on Halloween.
Suddenly, you couldn't have Halloween carnivals anymore, you had to have
Autumn festivals. And don't dress in anything scary, it's all princesses
and spiderman costumes from now on. Gah!
And now there is the whole thing with individuals not being able
to pray in schools, because someone sitting across the room might take
offense at a bowed head and say that a different belief is being forced on
them. Isn't forcing the rules by which you operate your personal lack of
belief onto another person, in essence, forcing your belief system on
someone else? Gah!
I don't think halloween should be celebrated either, as it is technically a
"holiday", less so than xmas, but still a holiday. I don't mind the
"winter festivals" and the "autumn festivals" and the "spring festivals"
ideas at all, because even those children under tightly structured
religions (Jehova's witnesses) would be able to participate, as it's not a
holiday, it's not a religious day or time period...it's a party with no
pretense.
I like that idea.
Just fun for the sake of fun, without pretense.
PC, like affirmative action, was a good and necesary thing when it
began....then just went haywire. Not because the idea itself is bad, but
because of the people that use it to achieve their own agendas.
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Starlight
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posted on 17/1/2003 at 02:10 AM
One of the local high school teachers was fired last year for simply
lending a book on wicca to a student who asked about it. In my opinion the
whole pc thing has been carried to a level of utter idiocy.
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callei
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posted on 17/1/2003 at 10:01 AM
yah but they have fired teachers for handing out bibles too, so that is
'fair' i guess
Merry_Widow
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posted on 17/1/2003 at 10:10 AM
I wouldn't have been so annoyed with the Halloween thing either if they
hadn't moved them to Septmeber, and still expected the kids to dress up so
they could have a parade. If it's an Autumn festival, fine, make it an
Autumn festival. Sweaters and pie and apple cider and leave dealies, and
leave Halloween out of it, to be celebrated at home as they will. It's
when they try to make everybody completely happy that they get out of hand
and end up with these wierd psuedo-fairs that just leaves kids and their
parents confused.
which society?
and i guess it was already dead if it was ready to rot....
AloneSoul
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posted on 17/1/2003 at 03:39 PM
Our society may just fall...think about it, we'd be fined for saying "fuck"
anywhere we go. We'd all wear the same colorless robes and not allowed to
smoke or drink or eat anything deemed harmful to our bodies...
They can pry my cigarettes, booze, and junkfood out of my cold dead
fingers, those bastards. I dont' even wanna go INTO the foul language
tickets....I"d have a lifetime supply of rat bedding.
I also agree with the bit of trying to cram all the holidays/festivals into
one non secular event and make everyone happy is a tad stupid....shows
they're trying tho, which counts for something.
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Starlight
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posted on 17/1/2003 at 06:54 PM
*remembers Demolition man and gets sort of pissed*
I absolutely refuse to give up having sex!!!
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PoeticChaos
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posted on 18/1/2003 at 05:27 PM
Society has gone way too far with the PC perspective. I say fuck it, if the
want to be dimwitted fuckwits let 'em.
Speaking of "Demolition Man", did he ever figure out the shells in the
bathroom thing anyway?
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Starlight
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posted on 18/1/2003 at 07:26 PM
Actually, I am still wanting someone in the know to explain the seashells
to me. I mean were you supposed to lift up each one and ultraviolet light
magically wipes you all clean or what? *hopes someone knows the answer*
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MorteAscendo
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posted on 19/1/2003 at 12:55 AM
This is to funny that you bring this up. Long time ago me and some friends
where high as fuck having one of those, "I'm Stoned as Fuck so I Want to
Talk About Everything" coversations, and that peticular subject came up.
And we came to the conclusion that on average it should only really take
you 3 wipes to clean your ass. So the the 3 seashells is like a non-litter
way of cleaniner your ass. Its the future so they have to have some
serilization machine to put the shells into. So one shell wipes up, one
wipes down and the other gets the rest. The only thing i could think of.
-Mort
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