I Hate Politcal Correctness!!!!

Anyone see the episode of Penn and Teller's bullshit that was about PC?

Yup seen them all however I cannot remember which episode was PC...................seeing as how they pretty much attack that notion on all their shows🙂

Originally posted by KidRock
PC = downfall of america.

Oh come on, that's a bit of a stretch, isn't it? Not calling someone a ****** or a retard is going to bring America to it's knees? That's such bullshit.

Now, I despise political correctness, but to make this leap is ricockulous.

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?

I don't understand. Why can't everybody be as smart as this guy? He's absolutely right. PC? More like BS. And what's interesting is that I've never seen PC be used by the people it's designed not to offend. From my experience an "African American" will always refer to himself as a black man. Political correctness is retarded and unnecessary. The problem isn't folks like us who like to talk like non-retards, the problem is the people who are too easily offended. That anybody would ever attempt to appease such wankers instead of telling them to piss off is what I find offensive. And of course there's the facts that PC is an attempt at mind-control and oppressing freedom of speech and opinion.

Originally posted by Uberking Robert
I don't understand. Why can't everybody be as smart as this guy? He's absolutely right. PC? More like BS. And what's interesting is that I've never seen PC be used by the people it's designed not to offend. From my experience an "African American" will always refer to himself as a black man. Political correctness is retarded and unnecessary. The problem isn't folks like us who like to talk like non-retards, the problem is the people who are too easily offended. That anybody would ever attempt to appease such wankers instead of telling them to piss off is what I find offensive. And of course there's the facts that PC is an attempt at mind-control and oppressing freedom of speech and opinion.

what makes even less sense is that the very opponents of political correctness always tend to be republicans, yet...you never hear a republican politician display the gumption it takes to not use political correctness. I think the whole "democrats created political correctness" thing is a bullshit myth. Politicians created political correctness, not just liberals.

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.

Post of the week.

Sounds to me like people are more upset with the prevention the political correctness process creates cause it causes one not to say whatever they want no matter if it offends or not.

I was led to say this when I read the posts in here with people saying, to a certain degree, "I hate trying to make someone comfortable. I'm not so why should they be." But if you feel you don't give a rats glu-teous maxi-mus (lol) if you offend or not, then hey, have at it. It's your right. However unclassy it is.

Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
Oh come on, that's a bit of a stretch, isn't it? Not calling someone a ****** or a retard is going to bring America to it's knees? That's such bullshit.

Now, I despise political correctness, but to make this leap is ricockulous.

It starts small and grows. No congressman will stand up to illegal immigration in the south because he will be thought a bigot that hates mexicans by the PC asshats.

Originally posted by KidRock
It starts small and grows. No congressman will stand up to illegal immigration in the south because he will be thought a bigot that hates mexicans by the PC asshats.

You mean, like George W Bush saying that all illegal immigrants in the country before his first election should be made permanent, legal residents? Your true grasp of the politics of your own party are revealed in this post. Karl Rove, knowing that the hispanic population is fast becoming the physical majority in this nation catered to that fact, and managed to get the election close enough to cheat on. Plain and simple.

Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
You mean, like George W Bush saying that all illegal immigrants in the country before his first election should be made permanent, legal residents? Your true grasp of the politics of your own party are revealed in this post. Karl Rove, knowing that the hispanic population is fast becoming the physical majority in this nation catered to that fact, and managed to get the election close enough to cheat on. Plain and simple.

And then Bush made a plan to gather all the illegal immigrants, remove them from the U.S. and build a freakin fence to keep them out. A little backwards, I'd think, since you'd want to prevent more from getting in, and THEN get the ones trapped in, out.

Out: "hate"
In: "do not prefer"

republican pundit on the daily show when jon stewart asked if the illegal immigrant leniancey was just a cynical voting ploy: "yes, sp*cs are the new black!!!"

I ****ing love that show.

I guess I'm black now.

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?

we have some people who get pedantic about it here in Australia, but as a whole we're pretty good. i do however, agree with you. there is a point where, as Butters to beautifully put it, you can call a spade an icecream machine, but its still a spade.