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Who's outraged?. Kinda like when Andy Cooper says "this will make your head explode"...lmfao. What a shill.
Media Matters is a Soros funded organization that swears that the media in this country is biased towards the right. Media Matters has been a joke since its inception.
They need the fake paradigm of hate to be discussed, lest Americans learn the truth about our economy and what's the truth is.
Media Matters takes outright lies told by the media and exposes them to the light of day. Since FOX News has always distorted the truth or been blatantly untruthful in their reporting, it makes sense that this network comes up on their radar most frequently.
these media matters wackjobs are as deranged as some of the 'fox news!' shriekers on C-D.
This is laughable! "Homosexual" is recognized as a pejorative term? It is the correct term! But, that is the nature of "political correctness." We cannot use the correct terminology, we have to invent euphemisms that sound "nicer."
I have decided not to use "gay" anymore, as that word does not describe what a homosexual is. "Homosexual" is the correct term, and that's what I will use.
Really? Because I can remember when the word "gay was considered a forbidden word. Homosexual was considered more PC. This was in the mid 80's.
In the 50's gay meant "happy" .......kind of strange when others complain about hijacked words.
Remember When Gay Meant Happy?
I learned the Australian song “Kookaburra” in grade school. Remember the lyrics? “Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra. Gay your life must be.” Yesterday, a story broke about a school who changed the word “gay” to “fun.” Talk about homophobia running rampant!
An Australian school principal has asked students to stop using the word “gay” when singing a classic children’s song, but said Thursday no offense was intended – he was simply trying to keep the kids from laughing.
Principal Garry Martin of Le Page Primary School in Melbourne said he instructed students to substitute the line “Fun your life must be” for the original “Gay your life must be” when singing “Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.” The song about a native Australian bird is a favorite around campfires from New Zealand to Canada.
Martin said he was playing a recording of the song for the students about a month ago when the line “gay your life must be” produced a flurry of giggles throughout the classroom. Some of the students use the word “gay” as a schoolyard taunt, he said, but don’t understand its true meaning. And so, to calm them down, he told them to swap in the word “fun” for “gay.”
His decision erupted into a controversy, he said, after one of the students told his parents about Martin’s change to the song. Word then spread from the parents to friends to the local newspaper, which ran a story – and Martin found himself being bombarded with angry e-mails.
“It sends a signal to people that just because a word has two meanings, that one of those meanings is unacceptable and that’s really putting us backwards,” Hillis said. “Even if it’s done for good intentions because gay’ is being used in schoolyards as a slur, I think they need to use the word as a conversation rather than banning it.” Martin said his decision was a mistake made with the best of intentions, and he plans to speak to the students about how different words hold different meanings across generations.
This is laughable! "Homosexual" is recognized as a pejorative term? It is the correct term! But, that is the nature of "political correctness." We cannot use the correct terminology, we have to invent euphemisms that sound "nicer."
I have decided not to use "gay" anymore, as that word does not describe what a homosexual is. "Homosexual" is the correct term, and that's what I will use.
I applaud Fox News for their correctness.
If you always refer to straight people as "heterosexuals" and insert the word "sexual" into anything having to do with opposite-sex relationships, then congratulations, you have intellectual consistently, at least:
Problem is most people emphasize and use homosexual because they want to focus on the sex part. It's deliberate, and its calculated, and fairly transparent to most people when it's occurring.
Nothing at all to do with "political correctness."
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.......kind of strange when others complain about hijacked words.
