Politically Correct
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I'm sick and tired of being politically correct. 
Everybody is. If you're black, you're black. Want to be called African-American? Fine. Call me "European American slash Pacific Islander." If you come from Mexico, I'm not calling you "Latino" and certainly not "Hispanic" since "Hispanic" is not a term that defines race. If you come from Mexico, you're Mexican as I am an American. People who still want us to use sensitive terms as a way of defining race need to get over themselves.
Everybody is. If you're black, you're black. Want to be called African-American? Fine. Call me "European American slash Pacific Islander." If you come from Mexico, I'm not calling you "Latino" and certainly not "Hispanic" since "Hispanic" is not a term that defines race. If you come from Mexico, you're Mexican as I am an American. People who still want us to use sensitive terms as a way of defining race need to get over themselves.
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Originally posted by M5Power
I'm sick and tired of being politically correct.
Everybody is. If you're black, you're black. Want to be called African-American? Fine. Call me "European American slash Pacific Islander." If you come from Mexico, I'm not calling you "Latino" and certainly not "Hispanic" since "Hispanic" is not a term that defines race. If you come from Mexico, you're Mexican as I am an American. People who still want us to use sensitive terms as a way of defining race need to get over themselves.
Doug sounds like he's in the same kind of mood I am in today 👍
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Originally posted by M5Power
I'm sick and tired of being politically correct.
Everybody is. If you're black, you're black. Want to be called African-American? Fine. Call me "European American slash Pacific Islander." ...
And call me "Irish slash Norwiegen slash Swedish slash Austrian American"
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- GTP_Duke
PC fascists who insist on having a sensitive name for everything are missing their own point so utterly that I would love to spend days explaining it to them. Unfortunately they all seem to be too mentally challenged to understand it.
There's a fundamental difference between calling someone a retard and saying he is retarded. People who don't get that are focusing on the puddle while ignoring the tidal wave coming at them.
There's a fundamental difference between calling someone a retard and saying he is retarded. People who don't get that are focusing on the puddle while ignoring the tidal wave coming at them.
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,... this goes for being polite too
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- USA! USA!
I'm always politically correct and it hasn't failed me yet.
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- USA! USA!
Well, you've just got to stick with what works I guess.
Screw Japan.
Screw Japan.
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- USA! USA!
Nah, I guess you don't get it.
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- USA! USA!
You suck dic*s on an airplane! Yankee. bastard.
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Tool rocks. A lot.
I was waiting for someone to notice, because I crave attention.
Tool rocks. A lot.
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Isn't political correctness a necessity for a society to function without excessive discrimination?
BTW,... TOOL rules 👍
BTW,... TOOL rules 👍
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- Alabamamania
Yeah, but PC gets carried away. Fine, I won't call a "flight attendant" a "stewardess" (unless I'm really getting ignored!) because there's lots of male-people-who-serve-drinks-and-pillows-on-a-commercial-jetliner. But I've never heard a black person call themselves African-American, for example. It's a silly term, really...nobody's really an all-American because we all came from different lands and arrived here (whether forcefully, or not).
The only real "PC" term I use is Native American, because it's confusing when talking about someone who's really from India/Indian-descent....two different cultures.
Like neon_duke said, you have to use the word "retarded" sometimes because someone who's slow to understand basic concepts is retarded. The word's been used in so many negative connotations, that other forms like "impaired" and "exceptional" have been tossed around. (I work in the educational supply business, trust me, it's literally impossible to judge a book by it's cover conerning when dividing materials like books and guides apart...I have to read some of them to figure out what it's for! So many different ways to describe a learning-disability!)
PC has it's uses, but getting rid of one term for another doesn't solve anything. I for one, quash all BS-terms whenever possible when talking with people I know well. I prefer to cut the crap terms with a machette. Some people don't like it, but I've got enough fluff to deal with.
The only real "PC" term I use is Native American, because it's confusing when talking about someone who's really from India/Indian-descent....two different cultures.
Like neon_duke said, you have to use the word "retarded" sometimes because someone who's slow to understand basic concepts is retarded. The word's been used in so many negative connotations, that other forms like "impaired" and "exceptional" have been tossed around. (I work in the educational supply business, trust me, it's literally impossible to judge a book by it's cover conerning when dividing materials like books and guides apart...I have to read some of them to figure out what it's for! So many different ways to describe a learning-disability!)
PC has it's uses, but getting rid of one term for another doesn't solve anything. I for one, quash all BS-terms whenever possible when talking with people I know well. I prefer to cut the crap terms with a machette. Some people don't like it, but I've got enough fluff to deal with.
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Originally posted by Red Eye Racer
I live in the state with more Indians than any other state, twenty one tribes. I am constantly exposed to Indians and they call themselves Indians. They live on Indian reservations.
Also there was a film the name of which I cannot remember but it was about a couple indians who go on a raod trip. The thing about it that sticks out is Dr. Fleischer's receptionist from Northern Exposure, big fat Indian woman... and she's driving a car backwards all over the res. because it will only go backwards.
Anyway... the Indian who wrote and directed that movie stated in an interview that he's not a native American, but an Indian, and there is no such thing. It sounded right to me and came from the horse's mouth.
If we decided to abandon all the erroneous monikers concocted throughout history we'd have to re-name everything. And if you really want to do an Indian justice, find out what tribe he or she is decended from and call them that, i.e. Navajo, Hopi, Lakota, etc.
Just don't call'em injuns.
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How on earth, could a society so repressed by what happened in the past, revert to the intitial mis-representaion of their culture?
IMO,.. a black man is an AMERICAN,... he's afican-american if HE originated for Africa. Same for Asian-Americans, ect, ect......
Now we come to NATIVE-Americans. IMO, the closest representation to the WORD american for any of us,... because they were here first. If I had my way, I'd call them plain ol' American too, it's there ansectors who are NATIVE. But to say that their INDIAN? Hell, why don't they just thank the settlers for committing genocide on their herotage, then put on a top and and walk directly to church.
It blows my mind,.... but then again, what the hell do i know,.... I'm just your typical politically correct american. Polittically correct needs to be taken one step further. We discriminate in the current system. African-Asian-Native,.... non of these are POLITICALLY correct,... unless that person originated from that specific region.
JMO
IMO,.. a black man is an AMERICAN,... he's afican-american if HE originated for Africa. Same for Asian-Americans, ect, ect......
Now we come to NATIVE-Americans. IMO, the closest representation to the WORD american for any of us,... because they were here first. If I had my way, I'd call them plain ol' American too, it's there ansectors who are NATIVE. But to say that their INDIAN? Hell, why don't they just thank the settlers for committing genocide on their herotage, then put on a top and and walk directly to church.
It blows my mind,.... but then again, what the hell do i know,.... I'm just your typical politically correct american. Polittically correct needs to be taken one step further. We discriminate in the current system. African-Asian-Native,.... non of these are POLITICALLY correct,... unless that person originated from that specific region.
JMO
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Your reasoning states that one merely has to be in a certain place for long enough to be considered a native. The Indians came here from somewhere else, too. There are no native American human beings. And if your logic holds up, someday we'll all be natives, too.
Before Europeans came to the American continents, the people who already lived here didn't have a blanket name for all the various groups. They lived in small "nations" not defined geographically. But that was too hard for European settlers to understand. We had to label the lot of them and "Indian" stuck. And now they live in our country, moral or not, and for practical reasons go by "Indian." But they all know what they really are. And they also know that's all that matters. The Indians got a far worse deal than any other group did in this country. And yet, they hardly ever complain. They do what they need to do and have learned how to survive in our imposed system. Rather than complain and look for handouts, they figure out how to make things work for themselves. Hell, they've even started showing signs of good old fashioned corruption, white man style.
The first step of the oppressed overcoming it's oppressor is to adopt the oppressors' launguage and use it against them.
I think the Indians are pretty smart, personally. And I can't even think about what happened to them without being infuriated. But they're doing okay, and getting better all the time.
Before Europeans came to the American continents, the people who already lived here didn't have a blanket name for all the various groups. They lived in small "nations" not defined geographically. But that was too hard for European settlers to understand. We had to label the lot of them and "Indian" stuck. And now they live in our country, moral or not, and for practical reasons go by "Indian." But they all know what they really are. And they also know that's all that matters. The Indians got a far worse deal than any other group did in this country. And yet, they hardly ever complain. They do what they need to do and have learned how to survive in our imposed system. Rather than complain and look for handouts, they figure out how to make things work for themselves. Hell, they've even started showing signs of good old fashioned corruption, white man style.
The first step of the oppressed overcoming it's oppressor is to adopt the oppressors' launguage and use it against them.
I think the Indians are pretty smart, personally. And I can't even think about what happened to them without being infuriated. But they're doing okay, and getting better all the time.
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No,.. thats not what I mean. A citizen of this counrty is an american. A citizen of this country who originated (them personally) from Asia is asian-american.
And yes,.. I know the "indians" came over across the bearian land bridge. But does that mean that there indian? Last I knew, India was quite a hike from Siberia......
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