Politically Correct

[gdizzle]

It drives me nuts that you can no longer call Christmas Christmas. Man it erks the hell out of me when someone invites me to their "holiday" party. A guy I work with was telling me that his kids are having a december gift drive, not a Christmas gift drive. This whole politically correct movement is driving me friggin nuts, you tree huggin hippie liberals can have it. Oh gosh....I might offend someone...., who friggin cares! They will get over it.

Edited December 3, 2004 by gdogg16

[JHEIII874T5M]

you tree huggin hippie liberals can have it.  Oh gosh....I might offend someone...., who friggin cares!  They will get over it.

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nah you're right man, all this political correctness is really getting old, also you don't even know how people truly feel anymore, everything is so censored

[mmetz]

MERRY CHRISTMAS! er, I mean... MERRY KWANZMASANUKAH!!!

[wattsat]

Being the liberal that I am, I certainly agree that this PC crap has gone to far.

It all started when we had to call black people African Americans. what. Unless you just hopped off the boat you made in your backyard and floated across the Ocean you are no longer connected to Africa.

Then we had to call retarted people Mentally Challenged. what, We can easily say that 75% of our country is Mentally Challenged. Wheras only a few of them are Retarded. That is the medical term. Now call a normal person a Retard and you have gone to far. But if I go to the Special Olympics and happen to say "Man that retard that won the race sure was fast", I don't expect to hear any lip.

Next was Vision Impared. I think the term is Blind. Like, man that Hot chick over there is F'n Blind. That sure will make it difficult for me to show her my Johnson.

Now I cannot tell my Mat, Bob, and Art jokes anymore. How funny is it to tell a joke that starts like this, "So, this physically challnged African American was lying in front of Door, What was his name?" Really, how funny is that? I want to call them a dude with no arms or legs.

So, to think that myself as a non religious type could be offended by an invitation to a Christmas party is just rediculous. After all, Christmas is a celebration of a Pagan Holiday and was banned in England, Parts of Europe and even the US for a period of time.

It's the Jews that have a right to be ticked. Heck they were celebrating Hanukkah before Jesus was even born. (By the way, he was not Born in December.)

So, in conclusion. Being a PC person is completely Retarded.

For more information on the history of Christmas Click Below.

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/hol...stmas/real.html

For Hanukkah

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/hol...ah/history.html

For Kwanza

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/hol...anzaa/hist.html

[kenhoeve]

So, in conclusion.  Being a PC person is completely Retarded.

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case closed.

[gdizzle]

case closed.

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Indeed!

I blame the ACLU.

[The Stig]

We can easily say that 75% of our country is Mentally Challenged.

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Finally, someone has defined what it means to be American! :monkey:

[Guest DougK]

Happy Festivus day!!

[Chris_R]

Finally, someone has defined what it means to be American!

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Last I checked Canada was still part of America. Perhaps not the 'United States of', but 'North'.

that!

FWIW, I think it's still ok to refer to someone as Mentally Retarded, just not as 'a Retard'.

-Chris

[jross]

Heh.. as the board's self-nominated Hippy, I just wanna throw something out:

I agree with you

I can see a use for words like "vision impaired" but not as a substitute for "blind". If you're blind, you're blind, get over it. If you're "vision impaired", you have trouble seeing. Get over it, four-eyes (j/k).

I can see how African-Americans might want to identify themselves that way. To a certain degree, European-Americans robbed them of their identity when they shipped them over here as slaves. They (and Mexican-Americans, and Japanese-Americans, and ...) have pride in their ethnic heritage. It also moves away from the direct reference to skin-color, which has been quite historically problematic.

Being PC does tend to get carried to far, but historically, people tend to forget with time. Once upon a time, being Irish in America was a huge stigma -- they were seen as underevolved monkeys, brutes, and ruffians (this was around the 1840s, if I recall right). In fact, the term "Scotch-Irish" was coined to describe the early immigrants, who were not, strictly speaking, Irish. The British had displaced a number of lowland Scots into Ulster, Ireland as "colonists". If memory serves, they were Protestants send by the Crown to work the land; the Irish (who were largely Catholic) were prohibited from owning or renting land -- they were in a position roughly similar to that of the Russian serfs. Alot of these displaced Scotsmen eventually immigrated to the US, where they took on the title of the "Ulster Irish". As the more "common" Irish began to immigrate to the US, public sentiment began to rise against them (much as it has risen against every other immigrant group who came in large numbers :-\) and so, to differentiate themselves from the actual Irishmen, the Ulster Irish adopted the title of the "Scotch-Irish". The term did not originally suggest a blend of the Irish and Scotch bloodlines, but rather connoted the Scotch origins of the original "Irish" immigrants. Of course, this term has morphed so that now it generally refers to those of both Scotch and Irish extraction; the original Scotch-Irish had little, if any, Irish blood in them.

[The Stig]

Last I checked Canada was still part of America. Perhaps not the 'United States of', but 'North'.

that!

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Haha, touche!

[850drag]

It drives me nuts that you can no longer call Christmas Christmas.  Man it erks the hell out of me when someone invites me to their "holiday" party.  A guy I work with was telling me that his kids are having a december gift drive, not a Christmas gift drive.  This whole politically correct movement is driving me friggin nuts, you tree huggin hippie liberals can have it.  Oh gosh....I might offend someone...., who friggin cares!  They will get over it.

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yeah true it drives me nuts too, but yes we are in America, not everyone does the X-mas thing, I celebrate both x-mas and Hanukkah

[gdizzle]

yeah true it drives me nuts too, but yes we are in America, not everyone does the X-mas thing, I celebrate both x-mas and Hanukkah

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Well that's nice, then have a Christmanukkah party then. Fact is, if I am having a party to celebrate Christmas, than I will be having a Christmas party. If someone doesn't like it, they can go fist them selves! :)

[chieffo]

yeah all this political correctness is way out of hand..like im not old enough to vote or anything but i see it all in school, like u cant make racial jokes to be funny with your friends or else u get like suspended its just lke you cant make fun of someone cause their wearing somethin completely stupid. then you watch the news and it gets 100times worse and with christmas rolling around they have to set up like 5 different things like one section has jewish stuff andother has christmas trees and santa and the other has like kwanza shizzz like you just cant have a tree with a star on it or christmas balls.. can we call them christmas balls or is that wrong too? it pretty much takes the fun out of every hliday because some1 doesnt want to celebrate it so they dont want to hear it or see it..they should just ignore it

[BeachRat]

As a liberal, I'd simply like to add that I, too, am sick of being excessively and exhaustively considerate of people's "needs". Give me a darn break, if you're offended or feeling left out, don't listen to me, leave me alone. I hate wishing people to "Have a Happy Holiday" at work and hearing it back, I love the people that actually say Merry Christmas. I have full respect for every other faith and their respective celebrations, but I simply don't care if you're feeling sorry that 90% of the country isn't on the same line...