Being PC

opwunder · Post by **opwunder** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:06 am

Here's something that I found...

This was the essay that won the Texas A & M contest on political dogma definitions

"Political correctness is a doctrin, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:01 pm

I'm not getting the turd metaphor.

Gotetsu · Post by **Gotetsu** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:10 pm

Think about a turd. Picture it in your mind. Now...which is the clean end?

Sadohara · Post by **Sadohara** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:26 pm

So is the debate about the aforementioned thesis statement or about which end of a turd is clean. (forgive me my question mark key has failed.)

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:09 am

~~[quote="Gotetsu"]~~Think about a turd. Picture it in your mind. Now...which is the clean end?[/quote]

The left one, I thought everyone knew that.

Dragonkin · Post by **Dragonkin** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:22 am

I think Ralphie May put it best when he described his experience in performing for the troops in Iraq (I'm most likely paraphrasing here);

"These men weren't concerned with killing African-Americans, or Asian-Americans, or Mexican-Americans. They seemed content with just killing . . . Americans! If they don't feel the need to make the distinction, I don't know what our problem is."

Dragonmaster Zoc · Post by **Dragonmaster Zoc** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:33 am

Political correctness is about asking for some base level of respect by first offering some small amount in exchange. Why should I bother to listen to someone who can't even be bothered to try to not offend me? It's not even about being up-to-date with your terminology; this is an area where intent is much more important than action.

Count Zero · Post by **Count Zero** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:21 pm

~~[quote="Dragonmaster Zoc"]~~Political correctness is about asking for some base level of respect by first offering some small amount in exchange. Why should I bother to listen to someone who can't even be bothered to ~~[i]~~try[/i] to not offend me? It's not even about being up-to-date with your terminology; this is an area where intent is much more important than action.[/quote]

The only people who ever seem to have an issue with political correctness seems to be the people who are upset they can't be assholes all the time and sometimes have to be nice to people they don't like. Generally, the people they don't like is someone who is a different sexual orientation, has a different religion, a different skin color, or feels they are cheated by the system because they have never thought about taking advantage of the system which was put in place to specifically help them.

Skyman · Post by **Skyman** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:36 pm

There has to be something more substantial to that essay...Maybe I'm being too hopeful

Drew · Post by **Drew** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:30 am

Here I thought these was going to be a flame war between Mac addicts and PC enthusiasts. ;)

opwunder · Post by **opwunder** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:15 am

Hmmmmm, I guess I should have inderlined Texas when I posted this. I thought the fact that it won in a contest in Texas said it all...oops, I mean one of the southern United States...