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  • #61
    Re: PC Police: A New Low

    Originally posted by MinnesotaNorthStar View Post

    Pssssssst. Ginger is a character from Gilligan's Island. Ginger is the woman in the picture.
    Since calling redheads ginger obviously goes back a lot more than 40 years, I assumed that the picture of Ginger was meant as a joke.

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    • #62
      Re: PC Police: A New Low

      Originally posted by whatever View Post
      Edit: it did take me some effort to discontinue using that term as disparaging. All you have to do is find a substitute word that does not insult anyone

      What??? we are searching for a term to use when we want to insult someone, yet we want no one else to be offended by the insult except the one person at whom the insult was directed???


      Actually, that recalls some of the greatest individualized insults in history....
      Last edited by FreshFish; 03-22-2012, 02:39 PM.
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      • #63
        Re: PC Police: A New Low

        The term "********" strikes a nerve in someone who loves someone who is ********, just as racial slur strikes a nerve of someone of that same race being slurred. Our daughter has no idea what the term means and isn't bothered by it. But for my wife and I, it strikes a nerve. We just want our daughter to be treated like a normal person, and not looked down upon or treated differently, just as a minority person wants to be treated like a majority person.
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        • #64
          Re: PC Police: A New Low

          Because it's oh so PC.

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          "One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume." Boromir

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          • #65
            Re: PC Police: A New Low

            The Chronicle of Higher Education has been grovelling for the past few days. They published a blog post that suggested that some topics for PhD dissertations in "black studies" were less than academically rigorous, that they were more about scoring political points and less about useful scholarship. Well, you can imagine the sh^tstorm that followed; and of course they caved and fired the author of the blog post (conveniently ignoring all of those who said worse things than she did in their responses).

            Her response is published here.
            "Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."

            "Beer is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin

            "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats

            "People generally are most impatient with those flaws in others about which they are most ashamed of in themselves." - folk wisdom

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            • #66
              Re: PC Police: A New Low

              "Black studies" is a tendentious academic scam. As is, I suspect, "diversity studies." Most of us probably don't remember Sam Hayakawa, who as president of San Francisco State decades ago, had the question of a "black studies" major studied. He concluded that there was not enough material, of sufficient academic weight, to warrant a major. He did authorize a minor.

              This set off the customary "days of rage," and led to one of the most sublime moments, ever. Some "black studies" advocates had set up a flatbed sound truck from which they were spewing the usual complaints about "racism." Hayakawa, hopped up on the truck and began to engage the young man with the mic. At one point, the guy said Hayakawa didn't know the meaning of racism because the "government" had never oppressed him. Hayakawa replied that the government had interned him and his family in a concentration camp and stolen their worldly possessions because of their race. And he wondered if that counted. It was that performance and many others, that led Sam to the Senate.
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              • #67
                Re: PC Police: A New Low

                Majors like Black Studies are the reason so many kids graduate from college and realize that they wasted truckloads of money on a degree that is completely useless and end up working at Walgreens.
                Having a clear conscience just means you have a bad memory or you had a boring weekend.

                RIP - Kirby

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                • #68
                  Re: PC Police: A New Low

                  Apparently Scotland Yard has banned the term "blacklisted" as being offensive. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...is-racist.html

                  Also "whitelist".
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                  • #69
                    Re: PC Police: A New Low

                    Originally posted by joecct View Post
                    Apparently Scotland Yard has banned the term "blacklisted" as being offensive. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...is-racist.html

                    Also "whitelist".
                    Remember a few years ago when CNN, at Ted Turner's insistence, tried to ban the use of the word "foreign" in its reportage and replace it with the word "international?" The laughter was "international" on that one. Just change the title of every Foreign Secretary or Foreign Minister on the planet. Hubris. PC nonsense. I think Ted's taken his flagon and moved on to other matters.
                    Last edited by Old Pio; 05-10-2012, 12:39 AM.
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                    • #70
                      Re: PC Police: A New Low

                      Originally posted by joecct View Post
                      Apparently Scotland Yard has banned the term "blacklisted" as being offensive. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...is-racist.html

                      Also "whitelist".
                      I think using "in the black" for financial terms is racist. Please ban it.



                      C'mon man!
                      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.
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                      • #71
                        Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                        I think using "in the black" for financial terms is racist. Please ban it.



                        C'mon man!
                        That idea is so ********.

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                        • #72
                          Re: PC Police: A New Low

                          Originally posted by cF[Authentic] View Post
                          That idea is so ********.
                          It's really pretty gay.
                          "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984

                          "One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume." Boromir

                          "Good news! We have a delivery." Professor Farnsworth

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                          • #73
                            Re: PC Police: A New Low

                            Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                            It's really pretty gay.
                            Yeah, it's pretty femmy. Let's blacklist that idea.
                            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 Givens

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                              Yeah, it's pretty femmy. Let's blacklist that idea.
                              Next thing you know, a bunch of porch monkeys are going to be restricting everything we say.

                              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0R3OjMcOqg

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                              • #75
                                Re: PC Police: A New Low

                                Originally posted by cF[Authentic] View Post
                                Next thing you know, a bunch of porch monkeys are going to be restricting everything we say.

                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0R3OjMcOqg
                                You fail at the interwebs, but I know of which clip you post of. F*ing ******.

                                Edit: it shows just text in your post, but shows up as a link in the quote. Odd.
                                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 Givens

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