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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 11:56 AM Original message |
Is it time to declare war on "political correctness"? |
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Al-CIAda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. I just wished the jellyfish would call liars and crooks |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Liars and Crooks it is |
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Jade Fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
3. It is Middle Class sense of Niceness which is offended.... |
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UdoKier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
4. I disclike PC codes or rulebooks. |
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Eloriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:07 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Proscribing the use of "nigger" because SOME people are offended |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:24 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. No one is suggesting we use such patently offensive words. |
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Blue Moon (151 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 03:50 PM Response to Reply #15 |
34. Who decides... |
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UdoKier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:31 PM Response to Reply #7 |
17. Of course it is. You just used it. |
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Eloriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
5. I'm so sick of folks on the left not understanding political correctness |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. I agree with you |
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Laughing Mirror (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. I have never heard the term "waitron" for waiter or waitress |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. The word "waitron" was one invented by the restaurant biz |
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Laughing Mirror (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:57 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. If you think hard enough |
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Eloriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 03:26 PM Response to Reply #20 |
30. You're also having a little trouble with yet another stereotype |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 03:50 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. What I am about to say is in no way intended to diminish your story or |
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peace4all (428 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. completely agree |
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K-W (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:21 PM Original message |
You are blaming the symptom for the problem. |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:22 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Don't you think that that's just a little condescending? |
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blogbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. 'Girlie men' I still say the obnoxious, mouthy, Austrian 'transplant'.. |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
8. You can complain about "enforcing PC" all you want... |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I'm not suggesting we need to be stupid. Just plain and clear. |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 01:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
25. How is it politically incorrect... |
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Eloriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 03:31 PM Response to Reply #25 |
31. Thank you!! Good grief, we're arguing about something that isn't |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
12. "woman's right to choose" is one of those phrases that bugs me |
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bloom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
14. I think people need to be aware of sexist, racist, mean-spirited |
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UdoKier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. The best (worst) racists can couch racist rhetoric in clever phasing... |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:47 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Thank you ... that is the essence of my original posit. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
16. You should never go to a gunfight with a pair of fingernail clippers. |
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Orangepeel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
21. most people who whine about "PC" are just mad that they can't be assholes |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 12:57 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Maybe this discussion would be better served if we changed it a bit. |
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Orangepeel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 05:28 PM Response to Reply #24 |
36. plain spokenness is a different animal |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
26. Let's go to peace with it, instead. |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
27. the ratwingers practice karate, with language, with facts |
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solinvictus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
28. I'm tired of our mealy-mouthed elected officials.. |
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Cats Against Frist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
29. Ah, yes -- the Republican Propaganda Machine already has the antidote |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 03:32 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. I think you're talking more about the echo chamber and not PC or language |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-05 03:46 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Damn fine piece of deconstruction |
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