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PC Police: A New Low
This commercial angers me. The weight of the word in question is FAR from the other words used as examples. New low, as far as I'm concerned.
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I can't imagine why you would waste time ranting about this.
My guess is that to someone who is developmentally disabled, the "R" word is just as heavy. -
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Comparing to "n***er" really got to me. After reading the book of the same name, one should really see the difference. I'm not saying "********" is not bad, but no way does it carry the same weight. No way.Originally posted by Gurtholfin View PostNever really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
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In this case, I'm not sure it's worth getting undies in a bunch over semantics.Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
Again, to someone who is disabled, it probably carries the same weight.
Make your stand though if you feel the need.Comment
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I just rant sometimes. It's what I do.Originally posted by Gurtholfin View PostNever really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
Tastes like a warm summer day. -Raylan GivensComment
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This PSA is ********.Comment
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Especially as it started out purely as a technical, descriptive, non-judgmental diagnostic term. If you slow down a natural process, you "******" its development. Some long-established practitioners still use the term in its old-fashioned technical diagnostic sense and don't quite understand what the fuss is about.Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
It is only after people starting using the word colloquially, outside of its original context, that some people got their knickers in a twist.
It doesn't matter much what neutral, non-judgmental, technical, diagnostic term is used to replace it in clinical work (practitioners need to use some term to describe the condition, no?); in 20 years the same thing will have happened to that term and we'll be doing this dance all over again.Last edited by FreshFish; 03-07-2012, 11:09 AM."Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."
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So did the N word.Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
If this is what the reflexive anti-PC crowd is angry about, I'll pitch in with the oh so scary Statist PC Police.Last edited by Kepler; 03-07-2012, 11:29 AM.Cornell University
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Brent, stop being ********.Comment
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Between this and the recent billboards in Duluth, MN (http://unfaircampaign.org/) I'm sick of all this crap. This "PSA" was the final straw.Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
Tastes like a warm summer day. -Raylan GivensComment
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Gee...not too offensive.Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
"It's hard to see racism when you're white." Bullcrap it is.
Unfair? How about those ridiculous generalizations scribbled on her face? Possibly the worst campaign / propaganda for any cause I've ever seen.Minnesota HockeyComment
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If we're worrying this much about whether or not it's okay to say "********" and other such things, we've officially run out of serious problems as a society.Comment
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You weren't always so sensitive about use of the word "******." Remember?Originally posted by Kepler View Post2011 Poser of the Year & Pulitzer Prize winning machine gunner.Comment
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