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I'd like to get your take on people being PC. Does political correctness make racial problems better or worse?
I have no idea...being politically correct is kind of like being polite. A polite person is sensitive to other peoples' feelings and wouldn't want to say something to hurt them or make them angry. PC is just a better way to say something that may have disparaged people in the past. I would think anything that makes and effort to spare feelings and avoid inciting anger must help...
I have no idea...being politically correct is kind of like being polite. A polite person is sensitive to other peoples' feelings and wouldn't want to say something to hurt them or make them angry. PC is just a better way to say something that may have disparaged people in the past. I would think anything that makes and effort to spare feelings and avoid inciting anger must help...
Political Correctness is an insipid political agenda favored by the extreme left to create a reality which favors socialist policy. This facist form of language promotes a rent-seeking policy in which individual responsibility gives way to communal responsibility. For example, I (and others) need to be responsible for you rather than you being responsible for yourself. It's the anti-thesis of the American Way.
What a speaker says should not be influenced by the message's reception by others. PC is not politeness, it's goose-stepping to a liberal tune. Let's look at the nearly-institutionalized PC usage of the phrase "n-word" which has replaced the word ****** in usage. The racial slur for negroes has been elevated to profanity status as non-black Americans are now afraid --becuase of the politics of PC--to even say the word (not use it), just say it.
(In Houston, I discuss this with my students every year. They say the word ****** routinely. When I've posit the question, "Why do you say the word ****** to each other?" to start a class discussion, there are always big whoops and hollers, and a lot of oh my gosh, Ms.- just said ******! Can she say that? Oh man! ha,ha,ha,ha It's always a good discussion).
All the while however, racial slurs for others groups, like hymie, a derogatory word for Jews, (which Jesse Jackson uses) hasn't become the "h-word". This is but one example of the politics of language that is political correctness that negatively impacts who we are and how policies are shaped. Political Correctness is about political control not being polite.
Last edited by english_teacher; 02-05-2007 at 07:45 AM..
Oh my god...you're an actual teacher??? I was hoping that name had some other, hidden meaning. And people wonder what is wrong with education...
In case you didn't notice, the government needs to take some responsibility in protecting minorities from people with hate agendas...not mentioning any names...your post sounds like propaganda for a white supremist group. I'm amazed at your twisted views...but it's as entertaining as it is sad.
In case you didn't notice, the government needs to take some responsibility in protecting minorities from people with hate agendas...
America's founding fathers were very clear in their intent to limit the actions of government. Protections for all American citizens are afforded under the law. Special protections embrace corrupt socialist thinking. Of course, embracing socialism is your perogative (and your right whilst living in the United States), it's simply un-American. Allowing certain groups privileges based on criteria other than merit and based solely on racial profiling is the real hate agenda.
I wonder if the founding fathers would want to limit government actions after they met with the mentality of a certain english teacher? It's this type of thinking that makes minority protection and programs all the more important. If the small/closed minded could get off their superior pedastals and show some responsibility then the government wouldn't have to do it. If it didn't protect minority interests then the majority would always win...but the majority isn't always right...
However, when this country was founded, it was founded on concepts, ideas and a philosophy appropriate for its time--we are now 200 years old and things change.
The insistence that what was applied to what is is limited thinking!
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Originally Posted by english_teacher
America's founding fathers were very clear in their intent to limit the actions of government. Protections for all American citizens are afforded under the law. Special protections embrace corrupt socialist thinking. Of course, embracing socialism is your perogative (and your right whilst living in the United States), it's simply un-American. Allowing certain groups privileges based on criteria other than merit and based solely on racial profiling is the real hate agenda.
Last edited by ontheroad; 02-05-2007 at 09:16 AM..
The insistence that what was applies to what is is limited thinking!
What the heck is this sentence supposed to say?
Nevermind - if you read it fast it's a problem, but read it slowly it makes sence
Last edited by Yac; 02-05-2007 at 11:19 AM..
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PC = Politics of Language
Socialism is Corrupt Thinking
