PC Police: A New Low

[FreshFish]

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Apparently it isn't just the US that is saddled with domestic PC police.....

A weird story about the Sioux that has nothing to do with North Dakota's hockey team:

The Associated Press reports that a UN “fact finder surveying the lives of Native Americans and Alaska Natives said Friday he’ll recommend in an upcoming report that some of the tribes’ lands be restored, including the Black Hills of South Dakota [including Mt. Rushmore]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion...#ixzz1uwSGJrwN

[bigblue_dl]

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Apparently it isn't just the US that is saddled with domestic PC police.....

A weird story about the Sioux that has nothing to do with North Dakota's hockey team:





http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion...#ixzz1uwSGJrwN

**** the tribes. If they wanted the land they shouldn't have gotten their asses kicked by us 150 years ago.

[joecct]

Apparently it isn't just the US that is saddled with domestic PC police.....

A weird story about the Sioux that has nothing to do with North Dakota's hockey team:





http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion...#ixzz1uwSGJrwN

He must have had some bad Custerd

[RaceBoarder]

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Before we begin the Double Jeopardy round, I'd like to ask our contestants once again to please refrain from using ethnic slurs.

[duper]

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And "chicanery."

I think you pronounce chicanery differently than I do.

[The Rube]

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I think you pronounce chicanery differently than I do.

I don't. Other people are dumb enough to make the connection, hence my statement.

[FreshFish]

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A tip of the hat to Ray Bradbury, noted author who has been honored lately in whatever the Bring Out your Dead thread is called these days.

His most famous work is probably Fahrenheit 451, which is probably the first warning ever about PC police run amok (in our society, at least...can't speak for all of history), if I recall correctly....wasn't the rationale for the book burnings to eliminate any and all books that might offend anyone?


Here's a nice tribute to him as well:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion...54ripp2GhdLw1O

[duper]

Re: PC Police: A New Low

A tip of the hat to Ray Bradbury, noted author who has been honored lately in whatever the Bring Out your Dead thread is called these days.

His most famous work is probably Fahrenheit 451, which is probably the first warning ever about PC police run amok (in our society, at least...can't speak for all of history), if I recall correctly....wasn't the rationale for the book burnings to eliminate any and all books that might offend anyone?


Here's a nice tribute to him as well:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion...54ripp2GhdLw1O

I've never heard of it interpreted that way before. I remember it being about government censorship of ideas.

[FreshFish]

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I've never heard of it interpreted that way before. I remember it being about government censorship of ideas.

Right, I agree with that part, I meant more, why was the government censoring ideas?

[Slap Shot]

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The concept of books being banned wasn't due to censorship - they were banned because they were considered outdated in a society in which media (espeically TV), sports and a fast-paced lifestyle made them obsolete. At one point when books were still produced they were filled with advertising.

The main character (a firefighter) steals some and tries to convince his wife to read them but she argues they have no value. He believes society has degraded and that all people care about is the superficial. In fact it wasn't the government that began the practice of book burning at all. Bradbury wasn't making a statement about the government, but about its people, believe that we had become lifeless and soulless.

[duper]

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Right, I agree with that part, I meant more, why was the government censoring ideas?

I knew what you meant. I've just never heard it interpreted that way before. Frankly, I don't remember it terribly well, so it is possible you're right, I just always thought of it more as the book-burning being an effort to prevent people from being mentally over-stimulated. I've thought of it more as about television and superficiality than social correctness.

[nmupiccdiva]

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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.

Friend to friend, we're going to agree to disagree on this one.
/sister and cousin to persons with Autism, tired of that word being thrown at them

[FreshFish]

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I knew what you meant. I've just never heard it interpreted that way before. Frankly, I don't remember it terribly well, so it is possible you're right, I just always thought of it more as the book-burning being an effort to prevent people from being mentally over-stimulated. I've thought of it more as about television and superficiality than social correctness.

i remember it pretty much as you descibe it, the "powers-that-be" (which is not necessarily the government....though it might be.....) don't want people thinking, period.

[FreshFish]

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The news coverage of the Knockout Games stories is a bit weird.

The "Game" is being played in Hartford, New Haven, certain sections of Brooklyn. Most (but not all) of the victims tend to be named something like Goldstein or Rosenberg or Cohen. None of the stories ever mention the ethnicity of the attackers, yet when you see the video (nearly all of them have been filmed), there is a uniformity to said ethnicity that is always left unstated.

Leave it to the great Thomas Sowell to get right to the point. "This is no game, these are hate crimes."

[FlagDUDE08]

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The news coverage of the Knockout Games stories is a bit weird.

The "Game" is being played in Hartford, New Haven, certain sections of Brooklyn. Most (but not all) of the victims tend to be named something like Goldstein or Rosenberg or Cohen. None of the stories ever mention the ethnicity of the attackers, yet when you see the video (nearly all of them have been filmed), there is a uniformity to said ethnicity that is always left unstated.

Leave it to the great Thomas Sowell to get right to the point. "This is no game, these are hate crimes."

I can't wait for someone to catch these kids and charge them with a hate crime.