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PC Police: A New Low

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I had to chuckle the other day when someone was reporting on a crime story and they said "then the paddy wagons rolled in for the arrests of all the protesters."

It's a good thing the Irish are generally so genial! Imagine if you said something similar about any other ethnic group, how outraged they'd be!



(for those who don't know, "paddy" once was used as a derogatory term for an Irishman...back in the days when businesses routinely posted help wanted signs with the addendum "No Irish need apply." The Irish immigrants and the WASPs (mostly of British descent) did not get along at all; and it was not uncommon for Irish to be arrested en masse, hence the term "paddy" wagon.)


So replace the term "paddy" with another ethnic group and have the announcer say, "then the [slur]mobile rolled in for the arrests of all the protesters."
 
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FreshFish said:
I had to chuckle the other day when someone was reporting on a crime story and they said "then the paddy wagons rolled in for the arrests of all the protesters."

It's a good thing the Irish are generally so genial! Imagine if you said something similar about any other ethnic group, how outraged they'd be!



(for those who don't know, "paddy" once was used as a derogatory term for an Irishman...back in the days when businesses routinely posted help wanted signs with the addendum "No Irish need apply." The Irish immigrants and the WASPs (mostly of British descent) did not get along at all; and it was not uncommon for Irish to be arrested en masse, hence the term "paddy" wagon.)


So replace the term "paddy" with another ethnic group and have the announcer say, "then the [slur]mobile rolled in for the arrests of all the protesters."
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rice paddies?
 
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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]
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinio...e_dakota_EZZVFhOtHe4kg2EFjMyBZN#ixzz1uwSGJrwN
 
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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. :D
 
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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/opedcolumnists/to_prevent_the_future_QhBfHmIY54ripp2GhdLw1O
 
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FreshFish said:
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/opedcolumnists/to_prevent_the_future_QhBfHmIY54ripp2GhdLw1O
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I've never heard of it interpreted that way before. I remember it being about government censorship of ideas.
 
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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.
 
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