andicap
04-28-2004, 10:32 AM
I promised myself I would never post here again, but as Al Pacino said in Godfather 2...... (Besides I expect to get wide agreement on this for once)
Anyway this kind of irritated me as an example of political correctness run amok. As a liberal, I HATE political correctness because it caricturizes (sp) everything.
Elton John calls American Idol voting racist because the public voted off a black woman who was considered the best talent. (I don't know, I don't watch the show.)
Note to Elton: A black person won the contest last time!!!!
Criticisms like this just make it that much tougher to get REAL civil rights issues into the foreground. Now whenever someone raises a legitimate rights issue, people will roll their eyes, "There they go again, the PC police."
http://au.news.yahoo.com/040427/11/oqwi.html
PC people are facists. They want to impose their viewers on everyone else. Why can't I tell an ethnic joke? Why can't I use the term, "Chinese fire drill?" anymore. Yes, I understand it stereotypes an entire race, but does anyone really think less of the Chinese because of that term.
The Dutch do OK these days despite such putdown phrases in our language as Dutch Treat (meant to imply the Dutch are cheap)
Now I draw the line at really sick, tasteless jokes like those Jewish oven jokes you used to hear years ago (someone told one of those recently and got into trouble, but can't remember who.). That's just wrong and offensive.
Being against PC doesn't mean you feel people can use the "N" word or other offensive terms. It means, relex and worry about the really important things in life -- affordable housing, voting rights, jobs -- not whether a black person is going to win on a stupid show like American Idol.
(Now of course the problem is one person's PC is another person's offensive. So you've gotta be careful where and to whom you say these things. I wouldn't tell a Polish joke to a Polish person and I would expect people who don't know me to exercise discretion in telling me a Jewish joke. If you're my friend of course, almost anything goes. And politicians have to be careful too. If a candidate tells an ethnic joke, I wouldn't care that he told it but be worried that he lacked fundamental common sense!)
So there, conservatives, something we can agree upon!
Tomorrow's topic: Capital punishment for morons who drive the speed limit in the left lanes. (I'm for it)
:D
Anyway this kind of irritated me as an example of political correctness run amok. As a liberal, I HATE political correctness because it caricturizes (sp) everything.
Elton John calls American Idol voting racist because the public voted off a black woman who was considered the best talent. (I don't know, I don't watch the show.)
Note to Elton: A black person won the contest last time!!!!
Criticisms like this just make it that much tougher to get REAL civil rights issues into the foreground. Now whenever someone raises a legitimate rights issue, people will roll their eyes, "There they go again, the PC police."
http://au.news.yahoo.com/040427/11/oqwi.html
PC people are facists. They want to impose their viewers on everyone else. Why can't I tell an ethnic joke? Why can't I use the term, "Chinese fire drill?" anymore. Yes, I understand it stereotypes an entire race, but does anyone really think less of the Chinese because of that term.
The Dutch do OK these days despite such putdown phrases in our language as Dutch Treat (meant to imply the Dutch are cheap)
Now I draw the line at really sick, tasteless jokes like those Jewish oven jokes you used to hear years ago (someone told one of those recently and got into trouble, but can't remember who.). That's just wrong and offensive.
Being against PC doesn't mean you feel people can use the "N" word or other offensive terms. It means, relex and worry about the really important things in life -- affordable housing, voting rights, jobs -- not whether a black person is going to win on a stupid show like American Idol.
(Now of course the problem is one person's PC is another person's offensive. So you've gotta be careful where and to whom you say these things. I wouldn't tell a Polish joke to a Polish person and I would expect people who don't know me to exercise discretion in telling me a Jewish joke. If you're my friend of course, almost anything goes. And politicians have to be careful too. If a candidate tells an ethnic joke, I wouldn't care that he told it but be worried that he lacked fundamental common sense!)
So there, conservatives, something we can agree upon!
Tomorrow's topic: Capital punishment for morons who drive the speed limit in the left lanes. (I'm for it)
:D