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Originally Posted by graciegirl
What triggered this thread was a picture of a drunk guy with his drawers around his ankles arrested for peeing on a church steps in Texas. He looked sad and embarrassed.
Now I saw an equally worried and embarrassed look on the face of the woman postal worker who was arrested yesterday for feeding a dog on her route a meatball laced with nails.
I do not need to be told by anyone what is the appropriate reaction as long as I do no harm to either of these people. We respond as our life experiences have shaped us. One I thought was laughable and the other made me very angry. Other people might look at both faces differently. We are who we are. Political Correctness is like the rules of a new religion. Most of us agree not to harm another, to try to be compassionate, but sometimes laughter is admissible. Some folks think it is funny to call others a fat twit. What we think is funny probably defines us better than what we say we believe.
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I did not ever see the picture you are referencing, and wondering how it got in THIS thread. I simply found the subject of PC to be interesting because so many seem to object strongly to
THEIR INTERPETATION OF THAT TERM.
I thought the thread was interesting, even evolving into a discussion of "1984". I never asked the origin, nor cared.
Suddenly, someone has the need to make a strictly, easily spotted political statement, and from what else I can read, now a personal tiff that most knew nothing about, but you sure brought it back up.
Why these threads get diverted when they go in certain directions and diverted off subject is beyond me.
Obviously, many folks are still in election mode and from what I read are going to stay there.
The subject was good, the OP was good, and for the life of me, I do not get the diversion.