Over the top political correctness

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  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    danny72688 wrote:

    Black sheep. Nature determined that, not the white devil.
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  • That dude is sick in the head. Get a fuckin' life
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • catch22
    catch22 Posts: 1,081
    my girlfriend works in textbook publishing and it is apparently policy that there can be no pictures of zebras in textbooks. the black and white stripes apparently spur all kinds of racism in children. :rolleyes:

    we're really failing to address the problem here. kids will be kids, they'll say mean things and reflect prejudices they see in their home. by trying to hide it and not discuss it except in some sanctimonious lecture doesn't achieve anything. kids don't learn abstractly. they learn by experience. if some kid makes a stupid remark, the teacher should call them on it and have them explain. they need to see the injustice of it and feel the embarrassment to learn how inappropriate it is. and it will work.

    personal story: in high school we had this physics competition thing and teams were red, blue, and white. i cracked a joke about one kid not being white team material. it was intended to be a bard about their physics knowledge. he was about the only black kid in the school though. i've never felt so embarrassed. THAT is what kids need to learn about this sort of thing. not absurdly removing anything that might evoke a stupid remark from a kid who didn't think things through. we don't have enough humiliation and embarrassment in schools anymore.
    and like that... he's gone.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    this forum is full of it...
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    You know the only thing worse than people who are so politically correct that they get offended on behalf of everyone and everything? People who make out like political correctness is the most terrible thing imaginable. Christ, doesn't it really suck that we can't even call black people "coons" any more? :rolleyes:

    Presumably most sane people would agree that silly things like the renaming of black boards are balanced out by the fact that the world is progressively moving away from, y'know, slavery and lynching and the holocaust n' shit.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"