11/7 end of political correctness predicated, film at 11.
\_ Don't hold your breath. The fringe left obsession with language
came to be during the Reagan 80s largely, I feel, as an unconscious
reaction to the shock of suddenly being politically superfluous.
It may, god forbid, begin all over again. --Berkeley liberal
\_ It should be noted that "political correctness" includes
conservative phrasings, concepts, and spins which obsecrate
their views into much more "palatable" words and ideas.
\_ Wow, that's an incredible re-write of reality. PC is a very
strictly left wing linguistic butchery and nothing else.
\_ Oh no. If you've been around long enough, this sort of
thing showed up on both sides of the aisle. The more
recent and publicly obvious 80s-era virulent strain was
a lefty thing, but I've run into it in connection with
right-ey vocabulary as well as far back as the early 60s.
\_ such as?
\_ The very phrase "Political Correctness" is a PC right wing
invention.
\_ Bullshit. I was at Cal in the 80's and plenty of the
freshmen got 'corrected' numerous times by some lefty
with, "You can't say that! It's not PC!". I even have
an English 1A paper from my sophomore year which says
my paper wasn't "PC". You can try to revise history
all you like but that doesn't make how history really
was any different.
\_ The term was used by neocon types when I was at
Caltech in 1982. It is foolish to generalize from
your personal experience to all history.
\_ it is perhaps a perjorative term applied to lefty/
liberal euphemisms. But the euphemisms to which the
term is applied are themselves lefty inventions.
not that euphemisms are solely a lefty/liberal thing.
look at "regime change" "pro-life"
\_ The right turned it into a perjorative term but it
didn't start that way. The term is solely a creation
of the left.
\_ You have some sort of evidence backing this up?
\_ Let's start easy with regime change, freedom fighter,
ethnic cleansing, and pro-life.
\_ You don't seem to know what political correct means.
PC is all the non-reality crap about not calling a
cripple a cripple, but 'differently abled' and other
nonsense like that.
\_ Crap. PC is like I can't say white people have
higher IQ, or women should stay in kitchen,
or Jews control the media, etc.
\_ *laugh* I think we're done if you're going to try
to bait the motd like that.
\_ my friend called a mutual friend of ours a "mulatto",
I told him that only 17th century slavetraders in
New Orleans use that term, that it was archaic and
not used much anymore, he claimed "everyone in NYC
says 'mulatto'", he said I was being "PC", I called
him a moron. - danh
\_ So if cripples don't want to be referred to as
cripples, you'll do so anyways? That's cruel.
Cruelty is what the right is all about.
Also selfishness and materialism.
\_ They're not "differently" abled. They're
"disabled". If they want to be called "basketball
stars" more power to 'em but it's a lie. I'm
going to ignore your obvious troll on the cruelty
parts. No cookies to be found here.
\_ "Cripple" is very different from "disabled." |