[quote]OldOgre wrote:
I think someone’s sarcasm detector is broken. [/quote]
That’s what I was thinking…I thought that referring to the “PC race” would give me away.
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]maverick88 wrote:
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
I think political correctness is a way for people to claim the moral high ground without having to do anything to earn it.
I know a man who has been a volunteer firefighter and EMT for 50+ years. He will get up at 3 in the morning and leave his family to help a perfect stranger. And yet he will call someone “colored” or “oriental”, or even “wetback”, without malice. People who haven’t done and will never do near as much to help their fellow human would be quick to denounce him as a bigot, as a way of saying “I’m better than that guy!”[/quote]
Are you for real?
It is not a way of saying “I’m better than that guy!” He is an asshole.[/quote]
(facepalm) perfectly illustrating uncle gab’s point…
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Yeah, I should have used the phrase “refer to” as the man would never disrespect anyone to their face, but then he might not be aware that “oriental” is offensive.
[/quote]
lol! Yeah, I figured that out the hard way. Referring to my boss as ‘Oriental’ and she informed me that was offensive. Ooops!
Of course, then I apologized for my ignorance. Then I challenged back, basically making my point that she and I both know I was not trying to offend in anyway. I was actually a little pissed. That’s one thing I hate about PC. You’re offensive even if you are clearly not trying to be.
[quote]
Anyway, I deliberately commit a violation of the tenants of political correctness by referring to a friend of mine as an “old black guy” when telling stories about him to folks who have never met him.
“Ooh, why’s he got to be an old black guy,” the morons always say.
Because he is descended from African slaves who were brought to this country against their will, and was born in the Jim Crow south in 1949, which means he’s put up with a lot of shit in his life. I acknowledge and pay respect to that rather than pretend like it never happened and we’re all color blind now. Fuck that.[/quote]
It’s a form of newspeak where a mindless, ignorant group of people control and warp language in an effort to control thoughts.
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]maverick88 wrote:
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
I think political correctness is a way for people to claim the moral high ground without having to do anything to earn it.
I know a man who has been a volunteer firefighter and EMT for 50+ years. He will get up at 3 in the morning and leave his family to help a perfect stranger. And yet he will call someone “colored” or “oriental”, or even “wetback”, without malice. People who haven’t done and will never do near as much to help their fellow human would be quick to denounce him as a bigot, as a way of saying “I’m better than that guy!”[/quote]
Are you for real?
It is not a way of saying “I’m better than that guy!” He is an asshole.[/quote]
(facepalm) perfectly illustrating uncle gab’s point…
[/quote]
Yeah, I should have used the phrase “refer to” as the man would never disrespect anyone to their face, but then he might not be aware that “oriental” is offensive.
Anyway, I deliberately commit a violation of the tenants of political correctness by referring to a friend of mine as an “old black guy” when telling stories about him to folks who have never met him.
“Ooh, why’s he got to be an old black guy,” the morons always say.
Because he is descended from African slaves who were brought to this country against their will, and was born in the Jim Crow south in 1949, which means he’s put up with a lot of shit in his life. I acknowledge and pay respect to that rather than pretend like it never happened and we’re all color blind now. Fuck that.[/quote]
I am trying to get this straight. Are the PC people you refer to offended that you call someone who is old and black and male an “old black guy”? It seems that PC people come up with more and more terms deemed offensive when last I checked none of the words old, black, and guy have negative connotations.
If someone stated I am a mid-30’s Jewish guy I would not find reasons to be offended.
[/quote]
I think that PC people believe that identifying someone by their race at all is offensive, as if we’re all supposed to be color blind, and race is no more defining a characteristic than hair color. [/quote]
No, you can identify somebody as white. You can say all the bad shit you want about white folks based on their race and that’s well within the PC guide book. Other races are off limits.
[quote]pat wrote:
No, you can identify somebody as white. You can say all the bad shit you want about white folks based on their race and that’s well within the PC guide book. Other races are off limits.[/quote]
So true. Bonus point if you can fit something bad about Christianity into it.
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
My grandfather had probably a grand total of four to five years of education and didn’t have the best grip on the English language and would regularly refer to Asians as Chinamen and Orientals without ANY offensive intent, considering he had a fondness for Asians. He used the term in the same way people use Irishmen and Frenchmen.
And no, he didn’t “think he was better” than anyone considering he was born dirt poor and recognized his shortcomings, and was pretty open about them too. He actually was a man for the underdog and was more altruistic than most people, a truly selfless person.
This word weaving that PC people do gets a bit tiresome. [/quote]
My grandfather was the same way. He grew up hearing “colored” used to describe black people and he continued to use it his entire life. He did not have one ounce of contempt in him when he said it. It was just what he knew.
I think once cause of political correctness is free time. We have too much free time. The generations from WW2 and before spent so much time trying to scrape out a living and survive that they didn’t have time to be offended by silly shit. Our grandparents didn’t spend half of their waking hours reading their news feed on their phones to be educated about what they should be ashamed of or offended by. They were too worried about putting food on the table, being drafted and stuff like that. They were born into the great depression. They fought WW2. They rebuilt the world. Worried about the Soviets dropping nukes on them. They had their hands full.
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
I think political correctness is a way for people to claim the moral high ground without having to do anything to earn it.
I know a man who has been a volunteer firefighter and EMT for 50+ years. He will get up at 3 in the morning and leave his family to help a perfect stranger. And yet he will call someone “colored” or “oriental”, or even “wetback”, without malice. People who haven’t done and will never do near as much to help their fellow human would be quick to denounce him as a bigot, as a way of saying “I’m better than that guy!”[/quote]
The PC police tend to be lefties, and one of my favorite pontifications is to go on like so:
“Let’s say I describe a particular person to you, and you tell me what you think of them, okay?”
“Sure”
“There is a woman in the Midwest who works 50+ hours a week at a battered woman’s shelter Monday through Friday for 30k a year. She volunteers Saturdays at the local MSPCA and spends the bulk of her Sunday passing out food at a soup kitchen. What would you say about her?”
“I’d say she is an extraordinary person, who is a caring and loving individual who is trying to do good in the world.”
“Okay. So there is a woman in the Midwest who works for her church all week, volunteers for a different church on Sunday before and after Mass, and spends her Saturdays enjoying a hobby. What assumptions are you going to make about her? Oh and she votes republican…”
He would just smile, knowing I know what he will say… Homophobe, bigot, ignorant, racist, anti-choice, etc etc etc…
“Well, what would you say if I told you they were the same person. The shelter is Holy Mary’s Sanctuary of Hurting Souls, etc…”
Most people will reluctantly accept they are just as generalizing and bigoted as the people they rail on against, but a select few will implode due to the cognitive dissonance…
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
I think political correctness is a way for people to claim the moral high ground without having to do anything to earn it.
I know a man who has been a volunteer firefighter and EMT for 50+ years. He will get up at 3 in the morning and leave his family to help a perfect stranger. And yet he will call someone “colored” or “oriental”, or even “wetback”, without malice. People who haven’t done and will never do near as much to help their fellow human would be quick to denounce him as a bigot, as a way of saying “I’m better than that guy!”[/quote]
The PC police tend to be lefties, and one of my favorite pontifications is to go on like so:
“Let’s say I describe a particular person to you, and you tell me what you think of them, okay?”
“Sure”
“There is a woman in the Midwest who works 50+ hours a week at a battered woman’s shelter Monday through Friday for 30k a year. She volunteers Saturdays at the local MSPCA and spends the bulk of her Sunday passing out food at a soup kitchen. What would you say about her?”
“I’d say she is an extraordinary person, who is a caring and loving individual who is trying to do good in the world.”
“Okay. So there is a woman in the Midwest who works for her church all week, volunteers for a different church on Sunday before and after Mass, and spends her Saturdays enjoying a hobby. What assumptions are you going to make about her? Oh and she votes republican…”
He would just smile, knowing I know what he will say… Homophobe, bigot, ignorant, racist, anti-choice, etc etc etc…
“Well, what would you say if I told you they were the same person. The shelter is Holy Mary’s Sanctuary of Hurting Souls, etc…”
Most people will reluctantly accept they are just as generalizing and bigoted as the people they rail on against, but a select few will implode due to the cognitive dissonance… [/quote]
Well if that just doesn’t fit the exact definition of a strawman argument, I don’t know what does.
I’m genuinely confused: we live in an age where it has never been easier to get a platform to say whatever you want and, unless you’re threatening bodily harm against someone, be relatively free from consequence. Seriously, have you been on the internet? I once saw a picture of a wolf giving a man a handjob. I wasn’t even looking for it, I was trying to buy chalk on Amazon. Can you imagine such a thing existing 30 years ago, when…I guess political correctness wasn’t such a “problem”?
It seems to me the only people complaining about PC gone rampant are SOME straight white Christians who are upset that they’re being treated the way they used to treat people. I agree they take more flak than they probably deserve, but even looking at the posts on this forum, most people are just upset that it’s getting harder to be casually racist.
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[quote]Ironskape wrote:
It seems to me the only people complaining about PC gone rampant are SOME straight white Christians who are upset that they’re being treated the way they used to treat people.
[/quote]
How many non-whites have you dealt with? I interact and work closely with non-whites on a daily basis and always have for as long as I can remember. I can assure you it is not only white Christians who are anti-PC considering who has confided in me in private.
Do you have a handle on what droves of ALL SORTS of people say behind closed doors?
[quote]Ironskape wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
I think political correctness is a way for people to claim the moral high ground without having to do anything to earn it.
I know a man who has been a volunteer firefighter and EMT for 50+ years. He will get up at 3 in the morning and leave his family to help a perfect stranger. And yet he will call someone “colored” or “oriental”, or even “wetback”, without malice. People who haven’t done and will never do near as much to help their fellow human would be quick to denounce him as a bigot, as a way of saying “I’m better than that guy!”[/quote]
The PC police tend to be lefties, and one of my favorite pontifications is to go on like so:
“Let’s say I describe a particular person to you, and you tell me what you think of them, okay?”
“Sure”
“There is a woman in the Midwest who works 50+ hours a week at a battered woman’s shelter Monday through Friday for 30k a year. She volunteers Saturdays at the local MSPCA and spends the bulk of her Sunday passing out food at a soup kitchen. What would you say about her?”
“I’d say she is an extraordinary person, who is a caring and loving individual who is trying to do good in the world.”
“Okay. So there is a woman in the Midwest who works for her church all week, volunteers for a different church on Sunday before and after Mass, and spends her Saturdays enjoying a hobby. What assumptions are you going to make about her? Oh and she votes republican…”
He would just smile, knowing I know what he will say… Homophobe, bigot, ignorant, racist, anti-choice, etc etc etc…
“Well, what would you say if I told you they were the same person. The shelter is Holy Mary’s Sanctuary of Hurting Souls, etc…”
Most people will reluctantly accept they are just as generalizing and bigoted as the people they rail on against, but a select few will implode due to the cognitive dissonance… [/quote]
Well if that just doesn’t fit the exact definition of a strawman argument, I don’t know what does.
I’m genuinely confused: we live in an age where it has never been easier to get a platform to say whatever you want and, unless you’re threatening bodily harm against someone, be relatively free from consequence. Seriously, have you been on the internet? I once saw a picture of a wolf giving a man a handjob. I wasn’t even looking for it, I was trying to buy chalk on Amazon. Can you imagine such a thing existing 30 years ago, when…I guess political correctness wasn’t such a “problem”?
It seems to me the only people complaining about PC gone rampant are SOME straight white Christians who are upset that they’re being treated the way they used to treat people. I agree they take more flak than they probably deserve, but even looking at the posts on this forum, most people are just upset that it’s getting harder to be casually racist.
How Casual Racism Ruined 'Free Speech' Forever | Cracked.com
[/quote]
A comedy website? Come on, man. That is bush league and you know it.
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
[quote]Ironskape wrote:
It seems to me the only people complaining about PC gone rampant are SOME straight white Christians who are upset that they’re being treated the way they used to treat people.
[/quote]
How many non-whites have you dealt with? I interact and work closely with non-whites on a daily basis and always have for as long as I can remember. I can assure you it is not only white Christians who are anti-PC considering who has confided in me in private.
Do you have a handle on what droves of ALL SORTS of people say behind closed doors? [/quote]
I should explain my position better.
Most of the posts and videos I see complaining about PC hit one or all of the straight, white, and Christian categories. Please don’t turn this into one of those “Not all group x!”, because duh, of course not all of a group does this one thing. It’s what I see on this forum. If you have an example to the contrary, I’d honestly like to see/hear it. That’s not smarmy or shitty either, I really do!
My non-white friends are all liberals, but then again, I’m a liberal. I won’t pretend to personally know someone from every walk of life, but do you know anyone who does?
Everything I post is from my perspective. Please broaden it.
[quote]Legalsteel wrote:
[quote]Ironskape wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
I think political correctness is a way for people to claim the moral high ground without having to do anything to earn it.
I know a man who has been a volunteer firefighter and EMT for 50+ years. He will get up at 3 in the morning and leave his family to help a perfect stranger. And yet he will call someone “colored” or “oriental”, or even “wetback”, without malice. People who haven’t done and will never do near as much to help their fellow human would be quick to denounce him as a bigot, as a way of saying “I’m better than that guy!”[/quote]
The PC police tend to be lefties, and one of my favorite pontifications is to go on like so:
“Let’s say I describe a particular person to you, and you tell me what you think of them, okay?”
“Sure”
“There is a woman in the Midwest who works 50+ hours a week at a battered woman’s shelter Monday through Friday for 30k a year. She volunteers Saturdays at the local MSPCA and spends the bulk of her Sunday passing out food at a soup kitchen. What would you say about her?”
“I’d say she is an extraordinary person, who is a caring and loving individual who is trying to do good in the world.”
“Okay. So there is a woman in the Midwest who works for her church all week, volunteers for a different church on Sunday before and after Mass, and spends her Saturdays enjoying a hobby. What assumptions are you going to make about her? Oh and she votes republican…”
He would just smile, knowing I know what he will say… Homophobe, bigot, ignorant, racist, anti-choice, etc etc etc…
“Well, what would you say if I told you they were the same person. The shelter is Holy Mary’s Sanctuary of Hurting Souls, etc…”
Most people will reluctantly accept they are just as generalizing and bigoted as the people they rail on against, but a select few will implode due to the cognitive dissonance… [/quote]
Well if that just doesn’t fit the exact definition of a strawman argument, I don’t know what does.
I’m genuinely confused: we live in an age where it has never been easier to get a platform to say whatever you want and, unless you’re threatening bodily harm against someone, be relatively free from consequence. Seriously, have you been on the internet? I once saw a picture of a wolf giving a man a handjob. I wasn’t even looking for it, I was trying to buy chalk on Amazon. Can you imagine such a thing existing 30 years ago, when…I guess political correctness wasn’t such a “problem”?
It seems to me the only people complaining about PC gone rampant are SOME straight white Christians who are upset that they’re being treated the way they used to treat people. I agree they take more flak than they probably deserve, but even looking at the posts on this forum, most people are just upset that it’s getting harder to be casually racist.
How Casual Racism Ruined 'Free Speech' Forever | Cracked.com
[/quote]
A comedy website? Come on, man. That is bush league and you know it.
[/quote]
Comedy is a great tool for social expression. You can make good points and great dick jokes all in the same article.
Here’s an excerpt that I like:
“There’s a loose rule in comedy that says you shouldn’t “punch down.” The simplest explanation of this rule is that it’s less funny to mock someone who’s beneath you than it is to mock someone above you – mocking a powerful, wealthy politician is going to get more laughs than mocking a child who was just diagnosed with leukemia (unless you’re going for shock humor, in which case the joke is actually how horrible you, the comedian, are). I bring this up because I only ever hear the “free speech” argument trotted out when someone wants to defend punching down.”
EDITED
[quote]Ironskape wrote:
[quote]Legalsteel wrote:
[quote]Ironskape wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
I think political correctness is a way for people to claim the moral high ground without having to do anything to earn it.
I know a man who has been a volunteer firefighter and EMT for 50+ years. He will get up at 3 in the morning and leave his family to help a perfect stranger. And yet he will call someone “colored” or “oriental”, or even “wetback”, without malice. People who haven’t done and will never do near as much to help their fellow human would be quick to denounce him as a bigot, as a way of saying “I’m better than that guy!”[/quote]
The PC police tend to be lefties, and one of my favorite pontifications is to go on like so:
“Let’s say I describe a particular person to you, and you tell me what you think of them, okay?”
“Sure”
“There is a woman in the Midwest who works 50+ hours a week at a battered woman’s shelter Monday through Friday for 30k a year. She volunteers Saturdays at the local MSPCA and spends the bulk of her Sunday passing out food at a soup kitchen. What would you say about her?”
“I’d say she is an extraordinary person, who is a caring and loving individual who is trying to do good in the world.”
“Okay. So there is a woman in the Midwest who works for her church all week, volunteers for a different church on Sunday before and after Mass, and spends her Saturdays enjoying a hobby. What assumptions are you going to make about her? Oh and she votes republican…”
He would just smile, knowing I know what he will say… Homophobe, bigot, ignorant, racist, anti-choice, etc etc etc…
“Well, what would you say if I told you they were the same person. The shelter is Holy Mary’s Sanctuary of Hurting Souls, etc…”
Most people will reluctantly accept they are just as generalizing and bigoted as the people they rail on against, but a select few will implode due to the cognitive dissonance… [/quote]
Well if that just doesn’t fit the exact definition of a strawman argument, I don’t know what does.
I’m genuinely confused: we live in an age where it has never been easier to get a platform to say whatever you want and, unless you’re threatening bodily harm against someone, be relatively free from consequence. Seriously, have you been on the internet? I once saw a picture of a wolf giving a man a handjob. I wasn’t even looking for it, I was trying to buy chalk on Amazon. Can you imagine such a thing existing 30 years ago, when…I guess political correctness wasn’t such a “problem”?
It seems to me the only people complaining about PC gone rampant are SOME straight white Christians who are upset that they’re being treated the way they used to treat people. I agree they take more flak than they probably deserve, but even looking at the posts on this forum, most people are just upset that it’s getting harder to be casually racist.
How Casual Racism Ruined 'Free Speech' Forever | Cracked.com
[/quote]
A comedy website? Come on, man. That is bush league and you know it.
[/quote]
Comedy is a great tool for social expression. You can make good points and great dick jokes all in the same article.
Here’s an excerpt that I like:
“There’s a loose rule in comedy that says you shouldn’t “punch down.” The simplest explanation of this rule is that it’s less funny to mock someone who’s beneath you than it is to mock someone above you – mocking a powerful, wealthy politician is going to get more laughs than mocking a child who was just diagnosed with leukemia (unless you’re going for shock humor, in which case the joke is actually how horrible you, the comedian, are). I bring this up because I only ever hear the “free speech” argument trotted out when someone wants to defend punching down.”
EDITED[/quote]
Bill Maher?
[quote]Ironskape wrote:
[quote]Legalsteel wrote:
[quote]Ironskape wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
I think political correctness is a way for people to claim the moral high ground without having to do anything to earn it.
I know a man who has been a volunteer firefighter and EMT for 50+ years. He will get up at 3 in the morning and leave his family to help a perfect stranger. And yet he will call someone “colored” or “oriental”, or even “wetback”, without malice. People who haven’t done and will never do near as much to help their fellow human would be quick to denounce him as a bigot, as a way of saying “I’m better than that guy!”[/quote]
The PC police tend to be lefties, and one of my favorite pontifications is to go on like so:
“Let’s say I describe a particular person to you, and you tell me what you think of them, okay?”
“Sure”
“There is a woman in the Midwest who works 50+ hours a week at a battered woman’s shelter Monday through Friday for 30k a year. She volunteers Saturdays at the local MSPCA and spends the bulk of her Sunday passing out food at a soup kitchen. What would you say about her?”
“I’d say she is an extraordinary person, who is a caring and loving individual who is trying to do good in the world.”
“Okay. So there is a woman in the Midwest who works for her church all week, volunteers for a different church on Sunday before and after Mass, and spends her Saturdays enjoying a hobby. What assumptions are you going to make about her? Oh and she votes republican…”
He would just smile, knowing I know what he will say… Homophobe, bigot, ignorant, racist, anti-choice, etc etc etc…
“Well, what would you say if I told you they were the same person. The shelter is Holy Mary’s Sanctuary of Hurting Souls, etc…”
Most people will reluctantly accept they are just as generalizing and bigoted as the people they rail on against, but a select few will implode due to the cognitive dissonance… [/quote]
Well if that just doesn’t fit the exact definition of a strawman argument, I don’t know what does.
I’m genuinely confused: we live in an age where it has never been easier to get a platform to say whatever you want and, unless you’re threatening bodily harm against someone, be relatively free from consequence. Seriously, have you been on the internet? I once saw a picture of a wolf giving a man a handjob. I wasn’t even looking for it, I was trying to buy chalk on Amazon. Can you imagine such a thing existing 30 years ago, when…I guess political correctness wasn’t such a “problem”?
It seems to me the only people complaining about PC gone rampant are SOME straight white Christians who are upset that they’re being treated the way they used to treat people. I agree they take more flak than they probably deserve, but even looking at the posts on this forum, most people are just upset that it’s getting harder to be casually racist.
How Casual Racism Ruined 'Free Speech' Forever | Cracked.com
[/quote]
A comedy website? Come on, man. That is bush league and you know it.
[/quote]
Comedy is a great tool for social expression. You can make good points and great dick jokes all in the same article.
Here’s an excerpt that I like:
“There’s a loose rule in comedy that says you shouldn’t “punch down.” The simplest explanation of this rule is that it’s less funny to mock someone who’s beneath you than it is to mock someone above you – mocking a powerful, wealthy politician is going to get more laughs than mocking a child who was just diagnosed with leukemia (unless you’re going for shock humor, in which case the joke is actually how horrible you, the comedian, are). I bring this up because I only ever hear the “free speech” argument trotted out when someone wants to defend punching down.”
EDITED[/quote]
This is for the most part spot on.
But I will add that it seems to me that some people gets offended over tiny shit. Upworthy are often an example of that. And sometimes I understand why Conservatives find Liberals/Leftists to be fucing annoying.
Edited.
[quote]Ironskape wrote:
I should explain my position better.
Most of the posts and videos I see complaining about PC hit one or all of the straight, white, and Christian categories. Please don’t turn this into one of those “Not all group x!”, because duh, of course not all of a group does this one thing. It’s what I see on this forum. If you have an example to the contrary, I’d honestly like to see/hear it. That’s not smarmy or shitty either, I really do!
My non-white friends are all liberals, but then again, I’m a liberal. I won’t pretend to personally know someone from every walk of life, but do you know anyone who does?
Everything I post is from my perspective. Please broaden it.[/quote]
First of all, you seem really lazy and content within your observation bias bubble. You do realize that your opinion is exorbitantly bias, I’ll give you that; but you seem to be failing to realize that you’re basing your opinion from information gathered from liberal sources or from the videos you’ve watched.
For instance: [quote]Most of the posts and videos I see complaining about PC hit one or all of the straight, white, and Christian categories.[/quote]
Please consider your sources and critically think before forming an opinion. Most of the posts and videos you watch account for, at best, 1% of the videos touching on this topic. And, I’d be willing to be that’s a generous estimation.
You admit to surrounding yourself with like minded individuals, which hardly helps to broaden your perspective. You admit that you are open to different perspectives, yet are too damn lazy to seek them out yourself and ask for someone to provide it for you? GTFO. [quote]If you have an example to the contrary, I’d honestly like to see/hear it.[/quote]
You want to broaden your perspective, go out and do that. Don’t rely on someone else to do it for you.
I guess what I’m saying is, you’re arguing based on observation and conjecture and seem either content with this or unaware. I’m assuming the latter.
[quote]Ironskape wrote:
Well if that just doesn’t fit the exact definition of a strawman argument, I don’t know what does.
I’m genuinely confused: we live in an age where it has never been easier to get a platform to say whatever you want and, unless you’re threatening bodily harm against someone, be relatively free from consequence. Seriously, have you been on the internet? I once saw a picture of a wolf giving a man a handjob. I wasn’t even looking for it, I was trying to buy chalk on Amazon. Can you imagine such a thing existing 30 years ago, when…I guess political correctness wasn’t such a “problem”? [/quote]
Thank you for being the perfect example of someone who needs to walk through the mental exercise I posted. You can flip the stereotypes and generalizations and “use it” on a “conservative” too.
Most people don’t go off on wild tangents like you did here with unrighteous indignation. Most people take a step back and understand what “individual” means, at least for a fleeting moment.
I like how you put “some” in the sentence as if it actually stops you from doing the same exact thing your currently talking down about in the same sentence.
You’re literally being 100% guilty of the thing that you are claiming to be offended by, within your explaining of offense, and defense of PC…
It’s rather amusing.
[quote]Ironskape wrote:
It seems to me the only people complaining about PC gone rampant are SOME straight white Christians [/quote]
Boom, the trifecta! Well played moron.
[quote]Ironskape wrote:
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
[quote]Ironskape wrote:
It seems to me the only people complaining about PC gone rampant are SOME straight white Christians who are upset that they’re being treated the way they used to treat people.
[/quote]
How many non-whites have you dealt with? I interact and work closely with non-whites on a daily basis and always have for as long as I can remember. I can assure you it is not only white Christians who are anti-PC considering who has confided in me in private.
Do you have a handle on what droves of ALL SORTS of people say behind closed doors? [/quote]
I should explain my position better.
Most of the posts and videos I see complaining about PC hit one or all of the straight, white, and Christian categories. Please don’t turn this into one of those “Not all group x!”, because duh, of course not all of a group does this one thing. It’s what I see on this forum. If you have an example to the contrary, I’d honestly like to see/hear it. That’s not smarmy or shitty either, I really do!
My non-white friends are all liberals, but then again, I’m a liberal. I won’t pretend to personally know someone from every walk of life, but do you know anyone who does?
Everything I post is from my perspective. Please broaden it.[/quote]
You should come to Boston. The Bastion of Contemporary Liberal Thought and Education.
Then bring your “non-white friends” to Cambridge and walk a little too slow by their cars…
Then, when the cops are done with you, I’ll give you my number and I can take you to some city block in Boston, and the surrounding area where you as a white dude, aren’t welcome. We can have particular fun on a couple block where my blue car, and white ass driving will bring gun fire on the right evening.
Neither white people nor non-liberals have a monopoly on racism. Living a little will show you this.
So, I seem to have made two grievous mistakes:
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I assumed that a “forum” was a place to exchange ideas. Nope! People get pissed when you ask for that! This is just a place for you to say how right you are. I mean, providing examples or links might be just a copy and paste away, but who has the time?
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I admitted my bias. Never do that! I mean, sure, everyone is biased, it’s literally part of being human, but you can’t admit that on the internet! Everyone on the internet has traveled the world and experienced it all, that’s why they have so much free time to post on the internet now!
I’ll ask again: when has denouncing political correctness ever been anything but defending punching down? I admit that there are plenty of times when people go overboard: Trevor Noah comes to mind. (Hey! An example! Man, that was tough to instantly recall from memory and type.) But it’s mostly about being a dick. Free speech is more robust than it ever has been before; people only complain about the “PC police” when they’re called out for being shitty to other people.
On one final note, because I have a feeling this post will just generate further dickery, here’s a quote from the recently fired Donald Trump:
“Mr. Trump stands by his statements on illegal immigration, which are accurate. NBC is weak, and like everybody else is trying to be politically correct— that is why our country is in serious trouble.”
I think, as a rule, if Donald Trump is on your side, you’re wrong.
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[quote]Ironskape wrote:
I’ll ask again: when has denouncing political correctness ever been anything but defending punching down? [/quote]
That small little world you live in, it’s called a bubble. Try even just reading outside yours once in awhile.
EDIT: start by reading 1984 (again if you had in in highschool.) It’s quick. It took me a couple days reading at lunch and after work.
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On one final note, because I have a feeling this post will just generate further dickery, here’s a quote from the recently fired Donald Trump:
“Mr. Trump stands by his statements on illegal immigration, which are accurate. NBC is weak, and like everybody else is trying to be politically correct— that is why our country is in serious trouble.”
I think, as a rule, if Donald Trump is on your side, you’re wrong.
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lmao at every single one of your posts proving the point trying to be made. It’s like you are doing this on purpose, like you are trying to use satire to agree…