# The insanity of political correctness **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 27, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insanity-of-political-correctness/209780 "2003-10-27T03:23:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insanity-of-political-correctness/209780/21 "2003-10-28T21:59:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jayjay \* > \*\*Well, that’s not going to help either. But it’s decidedly irrelevant in regard to the OP, who obliquely cites General Boykin and the Ayatollah Robinson when naming people on whose behalf he’s decided to whine. Or spew. Or gibber. Can’t really decide which this particular thread will turn into yet… \*\* Are the Bilderbergers relevant? Or maybe the Illuminati? Is Cthulhu really the one who puts it all in context? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insanity-of-political-correctness/209780/22 "2003-10-28T22:12:17Z")
Okay, I’ll admit that I went all sarcastic there. I didn’t realize I needed to streetsign every time I got sarcastic with an apparent loonytoon… ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insanity-of-political-correctness/209780/23 "2003-10-28T22:16:16Z")
Here’s the first clue I ever bought ya, **randy054** , straight from the septic trough from which you and your uninformed ilk apparently feed, you schmuck: From GOPUSA: [Pat Robertson Suggests ‘Nuking’ State Department](http://www.gopusa.com/news/2003/october/1013_robertson.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insanity-of-political-correctness/209780/24 "2003-10-28T22:24:58Z")
I don’t think **randy** ’s coming back to this thread. He has probably already Said Too Much. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insanity-of-political-correctness/209780/25 "2003-10-28T22:40:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jayjay \* > \*\*Okay, I’ll admit that I went all sarcastic there. I didn’t realize I needed to streetsign every time I got sarcastic with an apparent loonytoon… \*\* Me neither. Imagine my surprise. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insanity-of-political-correctness/209780/26 "2003-10-28T22:54:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Giraffe \* > \*\*The difference is that Lt. Gen. Boykin is a leader of _our_ military, and his comments can be thought to represent the goals and aims of our military occupation of Iraq. Non-stupid people recognize that his remarks have a good chance to cause both harm to our reputation as a country and to all the soldiers we have over there who tend to get shot a lot more often when idiot leaders say things that make them look like conquerors to the people in that region. > > In other words, it has nothing to do with political correctness, you dumb fuck. \*\* A tear came to my eye. I rose from my seat, and gave thoughtful, heartfelt, applause. A giraffe’s tongue can be 18 inches long and prehensiled, but it can also deliver a most impressive lashing. Bravo. Bra-ha-ha-vo. All I can say is: What **Giraffe** said. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insanity-of-political-correctness/209780/27 "2003-10-29T03:15:51Z")
My imaginary friend can beat up your imaginary friend. (What religious arguments essentially boil down to.) ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insanity-of-political-correctness/209780/28 "2003-10-29T06:29:46Z")
I shall attempt to salvage this thread by Boogying Down!!! Dance Dance, Get down, du-wop-ma-bop!! ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insanity-of-political-correctness/209780/29 "2003-10-29T10:38:07Z")
**drops some spare change in Tars’s hat** ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insanity-of-political-correctness/209780/30 "2003-10-29T11:15:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Frostillicus \* > \*\*My imaginary friend can beat up your imaginary friend. > > (What religious arguments essentially boil down to.) \*\* But arguments among materialists are much more interesting. My imaginary Braine is less inconsistent than your imaginary Dark Matter. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insanity-of-political-correctness/209780/31 "2003-10-29T17:54:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by randy054 \* > While government sponsored Imams and Clerics wish for the death of all infidels…from countries who are supposed to be our allies no less, we have spineless weak politically correct assholes that refuse to see this. > > Yet, someone like Pat Robertson, or just lately Boykin make comments that are derogatory but in no well wish the death of others, these pc idiots start jumping up and down. > > Heres a Peice from Cal Thomas of the LA newspaper Since no one in American political life has done as much to define and perpetuate a successful ‘political correctness’ as Pat Robertson has (with the help of fellow travelers like Cal Thomas), I had the hope - for the brief moment between mentally registering the names and reading **randy054** ’s sentences - that the kneejerk political correctness of the Falwell-Robertson school of Christianity was one of the political correctnesses that the OP was excoriating. Then I read the OP. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insanity-of-political-correctness/209780.md?page=1)