RE: Political Correctness
December 9, 2015 at 9:08 am
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2015 at 9:11 am by paulpablo.)
(December 9, 2015 at 8:22 am)c172 Wrote:Quote:I think the whole thing is too complex to say would I rather go with or without it.
I'd rather go without it, but...
Quote:I don't understand political correctness when it comes to individual words being used. And I think religions can cause people to be offended irrationally by things in a very stubborn way.
As for the first point, I would never, say, call a black/African American person a nigger. I just wouldn't (I'm white, btw). At the same time, I don't particularly like "cripple". I grew up "disabled", and now we are "PWD"s, which I kind of had to get used to, but have. So, I get it.
On the second point, I'd have thought it was atheists that would be pigeonholed as being more prone to taking this kind of offense. We're pigeonholed as being the "librulz".
Iwould never use the word paki or nigger in an offensive way. I've never been offended by someone calling me cracker, honkey or white bastard before. I was called these things when I was young because I live in a mainly Pakistani area and I was just genuinely confused by it, my thoughts would basically be, yes I certainly am white.
I only disagree with these words being used now ONLY because I find it hypocritical that all these other races get to be outraged over a word so it makes sense white people shouldn't be. But I'm not outraged, I'd change my name to Paul Cracker Honkey Whitey, it seriously wouldn't bother me.
Changing words and outrage over words is just smoke and mirrors around the real issue which is attitudes towards different people.
It makes no difference if a white police officer is thinking "I'm goin to get some fuckin niggers tonight." Or if he's thinking "I'm going to racially profile some Afro-American males tonight."
It isn't the word that does the damage.
It's like if I call a Scottish person "scotty" while I'm beating him and enslaving his family it won't make him feel better if I beat and enslave his family while calling him "northern individual of Scottish Gaelic ancestors."
By the way, this is the funniest fucking family guy scene ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA9ahNNvGhI
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
