I Hate Politcal Correctness!!!!

So the other day, I had the following conversation:

Demi: I'm flying out to Dallas next week to do a benefit concert for an organization helping disabled kids
Girl: DISABLED? What are you, some kind of caveman?
Demi: *sarcastically* Oh, I'm sorry! PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED
Girl: Wrong again, *******! Try PAE - Physically Alternately Enabled
Demi: Excuse me?
Girl: These people aren't challenged...it makes it sound like they're at a disadvantage and we should feel sorry for them. It's a disservice to PAE citizens everywhere! So now we've started using the term Physically Alternately Enabled - they simply do things differently from the rest of us!
Demi: Are you fuking kidding me? I have to start using the term physically....what?
Girl: It's not that hard - physically alternately enabled. Or PAE for short. God, you're such a misanthrope.

Demi: jawdrop

I'm SO sick of all of these ridiculous terms being invented to avoid trying to offend anybody - it makes it impossible to use standard english without causing some form of consternation and protest.

For decades we've been subjected to revisionists telling us the words we're using are offensive. They're not Indians, they're American Indians, no they're Native Americans, no they're Indigenous Peoples, no they're "First Nations".

I was yelled at last month for using the term "Eskimo" (it's "Inuit"😉.

I don't know what to say or how to address people anymore. And the bigger issue is that it really hides the bigger problem...it's doing nothing to actually address discrimination and stereotypes. It doesn't matter if you call black people African-Americans, Coloreds, Negros or anything else if you still won't give them a job or promote them. What difference does it make if you make racist jokes about your "African-American" employees to your children?

To Americans - is anybody else as frustrated by this trend as I am? Where is the line drawn? Should there even be a line? What effect does his have on the very issues of discrimination political correctness is meant to address? Are there any particularly new and interesting Politically Correct terms that you've come across that you found amusing/infuriating?

To non-Americans - does this phenomenon exist in your country? What has your experience been? What has the reaction been?

That wouldn't happen to be Demi Moore, by any chance?

Originally posted by demigawd
So the other day, I had the following conversation:

Demi: I'm flying out to Dallas next week to do a benefit concert for an organization helping disabled kids
Girl: DISABLED? What are you, some kind of caveman?
Demi: *sarcastically* Oh, I'm sorry! PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED
Girl: Wrong again, *******! Try PAE - Physically Alternately Enabled
Demi: Excuse me?
Girl: These people aren't challenged...it makes it sound like they're at a disadvantage and we should feel sorry for them. It's a disservice to PAE citizens everywhere! So now we've started using the term Physically Alternately Enabled - they simply do things differently from the rest of us!
Demi: Are you fuking kidding me? I have to start using the term physically....what?
Girl: It's not that hard - physically alternately enabled. Or PAE for short. God, you're such a misanthrope.

You should have asked the girl how it felt to be Physically Cognitive Deprived.

Originally posted by botankus
That wouldn't happen to be Demi Moore, by any chance?

You should have asked the girl how it felt to be Physically Cognitive Deprived.

Originally posted by botankus
That wouldn't happen to be Demi Moore, by any chance?

You should have asked the girl how it felt to be Physically Cognitive Deprived.

😆

Other terms I've heard for disabled are: "Differently abled" and (this is my favorite) "Handi-capable".

Originally posted by demigawd
So the other day, I had the following conversation:

Demi: I'm flying out to Dallas next week to do a benefit concert for an organization helping disabled kids
Girl: DISABLED? What are you, some kind of caveman?
Demi: *sarcastically* Oh, I'm sorry! PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED
Girl: Wrong again, *******! Try PAE - Physically Alternately Enabled
Demi: Excuse me?
Girl: These people aren't challenged...it makes it sound like they're at a disadvantage and we should feel sorry for them. It's a disservice to PAE citizens everywhere! So now we've started using the term Physically Alternately Enabled - they simply do things differently from the rest of us!
Demi: Are you fuking kidding me? I have to start using the term physically....what?
Girl: It's not that hard - physically alternately enabled. Or PAE for short. God, you're such a misanthrope.

Demi: jawdrop

I'm SO sick of all of these ridiculous terms being invented to avoid trying to offend anybody - it makes it impossible to use standard english without causing some form of consternation and protest.

For decades we've been subjected to revisionists telling us the words we're using are offensive. They're not Indians, they're American Indians, no they're Native Americans, no they're Indigenous Peoples, no they're "First Nations".

I was yelled at last month for using the term "Eskimo" (it's "Inuit"😉.

I don't know what to say or how to address people anymore. And the bigger issue is that it really hides the bigger problem...it's doing nothing to actually address discrimination and stereotypes. It doesn't matter if you call black people African-Americans, Coloreds, Negros or anything else if you still won't give them a job or promote them. What difference does it make if you make racist jokes about your "African-American" employees to your children?

To Americans - is anybody else as frustrated by this trend as I am? Where is the line drawn? Should there even be a line? What effect does his have on the very issues of discrimination political correctness is meant to address? Are there any particularly new and interesting Politically Correct terms that you've come across that you found amusing/infuriating?

To non-Americans - does this phenomenon exist in your country? What has your experience been? What has the reaction been?

You have the wonderful Democrats and Liberals to thank for that. PC = downfall of america. Like I said Democrats hate freedom of speech.

Originally posted by KidRock
You have the wonderful Democrats and Liberals to thank for that. PC = downfall of america. Like I said Democrats hate freedom of speech.

Originally posted by Eis
Wait, so you don't think the US will be an ever-lasting superpower?

Either that, or it'll become Canada...

Originally posted by KidRock
You have the wonderful Democrats and Liberals to thank for that. PC = downfall of america. Like I said Democrats hate freedom of speech.

oh jeeez, just shut up would you?

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Originally posted by Mindship
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LICE! 😂

Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
oh jeeez, just shut up would you?

LoL is that supposed to accentuate his point further🙂

PC is retarded

Originally posted by soleran30
LoL is that supposed to accentuate his point further🙂

PC is retarded

ZOMG LOLZ!!!! that made no sense

Originally posted by PVS
ZOMG LOLZ!!!! that made no sense

however your piece was a nice contribution 🤨

Originally posted by PVS
ZOMG LOLZ!!!! that made no sense

Originally posted by demigawd

....I'm SO sick of all of these ridiculous terms being invented to avoid trying to offend anybody - it makes it impossible to use standard english without causing some form of consternation and protest....

I hear that. Every time someone feels offended that I wasn't PC, **** 'em. I speak any way I want to. I'll use mentally disabled or challenged...just to be polite, telling a retard that he's a retard is just insulting.

Othe than that, if someone corrects me to be more PC, they get a stern '**** YOU'.

Originally posted by botankus
That wouldn't happen to be Demi Moore, by any chance?

You should have asked the girl how it felt to be Physically Cognitive Deprived.

😂😂

this whole point is based on a false dichotomy, that political correctness is just this.

political correctness can simply mean not using racial slurs, not discriminating against those who are different, and just overall allowing everyone to exist in our society without being f***ed with and insulted for no reason other than that they're different.

but some take it way to far and uselessly alter terminology, and add a bunch of syllables, seemingly as a means of just controlling the way we speak.
but the media puts this general spin on the topic and their drooling servants regurgitate their very thought. not just words, and opinions, but actual patterns of thoughts (political corectness---> obnoxious new terminology)

so it turns into a black and white issue, like everything else. this way its easy and you can pick a team to cheer for and one to boo at, and you dont have to think about that pesky gray area (the real issue a.k.a. reality)

Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
oh jeeez, just shut up would you?

Lol see..just trying to sufficate freedom of speech.

just because you are allowed to say whatever you want (for the most part) doesn't mean you should. Verbal defication is still defecation kidrock.
as for the original topic, that's mentally challenged. Wait, that wasn't politically correct....
I meant to say retarded