The PC Police return!

If I hear anything anywhere accused of being “PC” I am going to chuck my moniter our the window. Hopefully it will fall on one of the neanderthal sheep-people that like to accuse the entirety of existance of political correctness.

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“We should nuke all the civilians in Afghanistan, but we can’t because that isn’t PC”
“We should put the towelheads in containments camps, but we can’t because our nation is too PC.”
“Because we bow down to PC, our public schools fail”
“Budget Gourment TV dinners are bad tasteing- it is the fault of the stupid PC police”
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Yo! Everything that sucks doesn’t such because of “PC”, you foaming ignorance-cuddler! And deeply held philisophical opinions, like pacifism for instance, have nothing to do with political correctness. In fact, you moronic dick-twiddler, liberalism and political correctness do not mean the same thing. Did you get that through your skull? Will it help if a moniter came raining down from the heavens and split your skull open? Not much in there- shouldn’t make too much of a mess on the sidewalk.

First off, learn what “Politically Correct” means. The phrase’s orgin is disputed, but the consesus is that it was used in communist-totalitarian regimes to refer to an individual’s devotion to the party. The term was not made up by feminist, Jesse Jackson, the ACLU or any other American liberal group.

In more recent times, PC began to refer to finding non-offensive terms for public use. For example, on the US census you would be refered to as “caucasion”, not “cracker”. In some cases it went a bit far. PC began to refer to all attempts at censorship by liberals. Well not all…I’ve never heard such moves as offensive lyrics record labeling be refered to as PC.

May I take this moment, you myopic worm, to remind you that censorship is not the exclusive (or even native) ground of the liberal? I would like to to meet Mr. McCarthy. In the fifties, he was very politically correct. And on the other hand, here is Mr. Mapplethorp. It aint the liberals telling him to shut up. You see, it is a travesty of PC that we cannot crtisize black folks without being called out, but to challenge, say, christians is unacceptable and must be stopped.

Political correctness is not a universal term, however. For example, when I say “I don’t want my kids to pray to Jesus in school”, I am not being PC. When I say “Don’t beat up gay people” I am not being PC. You can’t just walk around calling everything fucking PC, because it’s not!

LEARN TO MAKE SOME GOAT-SUCKIN’ ARGUMENTS INSTEAD OF POINTING AND SAYING “PC” IN A SMUG PSEUDO-OUTRAGED VOICE EVERY TEN SECONDS!!! OR YOU WILL FEEL THE WRATH OF MY MONITER!!!

Arrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg! Narg!

And…ummm…I didn’t preview that post because I’m not going to bow down to the PC moderators of this board.

Narg!

Yeah…

Dammit, that kicked ass.

I’m all for returning to the days when PC stood for “personal computer”.

Well, it would’ve kicked ass, if it hadn’t been so god damn PC!

Nice try anyway…

I’ll bet there’s some Mac users out there who’d rather PC just meant “police constable” …

Ya know it was just the other day that I heard somebody saying that labeling records as offensive was PC…
:ducks,runs:

When I saw the topic of this thread, I thought it was a rant against folks like Monster 104 and Tejota who think Microsoft Windows is the only operating system in existence, and are personally affronted by us heathen Mac-using folks… :wink:

I’m personally lobbying to have the term “PC” included in Godwin’s Law.

Liberal: You’re a nazi!

Conservative: Stop being PC!

I dare someone to find a qualitative difference in those two statements.

You’re not in the same Santa Cruz, California I am familiar with, are you? Clearly, you are in some bizarro-world Santa Cruz where people eat meat and vote Republican. I do not know this place.

OMG Amen!!

Thanks for saying what I have been wanting SO badly to say!

I couldn’t agree with you more.

“You’re PC” is almost always shorthand for “I’m not going to actually take the trouble to refute or consider or even refer to your argument in any way.”

It’s just one of those terms (and there are plenty on the left and right, and in every other political or philosophical or religious dogma) that people use in place of thinking.

So (I’m guessing) the non PC way to phrase this would be,

“Lets carpet bomb the fukin sand niggar fags back to the stone age.”

Or less ofensively we could say:

We have no quarrel with the Afghani people, then bomb the fukin sand niggar fags right to stone age.

Point being, it is ugly business, that thing war.

Shit, now I can’t use “PC” either? What kind of doublespeak is that??!?! You PC types are so hard to please. :stuck_out_tongue:

PS: Narg, eh? is that some logical opposite of “arg”? :smiley:

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*Originally posted by even sven *
In fact, you moronic dick-twiddler, liberalism and political correctness do not mean the same thing. Although they are closely allied.

First off, learn what “Politically Correct” means. The phrase’s orgin is disputed, but the consesus is that it was used in communist-totalitarian regimes to refer to an individual’s devotion to the party. The term was not made up by feminist, Jesse Jackson, the ACLU or any other American liberal group.
Correct. It means adhering to an orthodoxy of a given group. Indeed, feminists, Jesse Jackson and the ACLU did NOT make it up, they merely insist on it.

In more recent times, PC began to refer to finding non-offensive terms for public use. For example, on the US census you would be refered to as “caucasion”, not “cracker”. In some cases it went a bit far. PC began to refer to all attempts at censorship by liberals. Well not all…I’ve never heard such moves as offensive lyrics record labeling be refered to as PC.
In MOST cases it went too far. Sometimes there are good reasons to have speech codes, but NEVER in a person’s private life.

May I take this moment, you myopic worm, to remind you that censorship is not the exclusive (or even native) ground of the liberal?
Yeah, it is. “Liberal” used to mean tolerant of other ideas. That definition no longer fits.
Conservatives (PROPERLY understood; NOT right-wingers, who are different animals) are the defenders of free speech, the soldiers at war with speech codes.

I would like to to meet Mr. McCarthy. In the fifties, he was very politically correct.
No sir, he was not. You are no student of history.

And on the other hand, here is Mr. Mapplethorp. It aint the liberals telling him to shut up.
Neither are conservatives. They merely do not want taxpayer’s money spent on his filth.

You see, it is a travesty of PC that we cannot crtisize black folks without being called out, but to challenge, say, christians is unacceptable and must be stopped.
Christian-bashing is a favorite sport of the Left. Nobody gets taken to the PC woodshed for taking a shot at the “religious Right”. It’s almost a duty; obeisance to liberal orthodoxy AGAIN.

Cite?

I’ve never witnessed such behavior. Cite?

Again, I recall a few attempts to avoid being offensive, some of which seem funny or overkill in hindsight, but not MOST. Got a Cite?

I just don’t buy it. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, allegedly one of the most Liberal areas in the U.S., and most of the people I know consider themselves to be in the left wing of political thought. I have never in my life heard a human being use the term “P.C.” without sneering at it - it’s a joke to everyone I know. Most people I know are able to express themselves well, with the occasional and inevitable embarrasing moments of course, but without habitually checking to see if what they’re saying will be offensive.

That is, assuming they were raised well, and all else being normal.

I honestly don’t know of a conservative I would consider a “defender of free speech” - could you please name one, and what legislation they have authored in support of freedom of speech?

I suppose I’m not either, I was under the impression McCarthy was reflecting the politics of his time. Please explain your view.

For many artists, excluding them from grants or other governmental support is the same as saying “shut up.” It’s a way of imposing the artistic preferences of some (or even most) on the potential creativity of the artist, and in this case it was a way to attack the very concept of supporting the arts.

Again, not where I’m at. Not from the ultra-liberal media available here, nor from the many shades of liberalism I meet face-to-face in my daily life.

So, like ya got a fucking CITE???

And remember, folks, when it’s late at night and you’re replying to a long post, and you’ve been making all sorts of vB code corrections along the way, it might be a good idea to copy it into another program to save it.

The brief time the board was closed this morning (around 1:30am Pacific) came very close to being a brutal reminder of this point for me, as it coincided with my second preview. Luckily, all the text was there when I went back…