[redwitch]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Too much PC for me.

[Fredman]

No pc for me

[Toymeister]

I am a Department of Defense employee. This year I had to take transgender sensitivity training. That is not a joke. You paid me to take that PC training. I was and am offended. You should be as well. It is impossible to please everyone,political correctness has gone too far.

[xNYer]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

The principals of political correctness have been used by totalitarian regimes such as the Nationalist Socialist party (Nazis) in Germany and the Communist party (Reds) of the USSR to subjugate and control their populaces. I refuse to knuckle under to PC demands and shall continue, for example, to call an illegal alien an illegal alien as that term is most accurately descriptive.

Obviously Nazi's engaged in politically correct behavior to avoid offending minorities?

[Allegiance]

In a role play during a government sensitivity training class I once suggested that the "victim" be sent to oversensitivity training. The instructor did not think it was funny.

I still do. The pc bs has gone wayyyy too far.

[Sandtrap328]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

The principals of political correctness have been used by totalitarian regimes such as the Nationalist Socialist party (Nazis) in Germany and the Communist party (Reds) of the USSR to subjugate and control their populaces. I refuse to knuckle under to PC demands and shall continue, for example, to call an illegal alien an illegal alien as that term is most accurately descriptive.

What are some of the principles of political correctness you are speaking about in your first sentence?

As for your second sentence, I hope you do not call other races, ethnicities, gendered identified, etc by names not "PC".

We have to have and to use common courtesy in speaking of and about others.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Sandtrap328

What are some of the principles of political correctness you are speaking about in your first sentence?

As for your second sentence, I hope you do not call other races, ethnicities, gendered identified, etc by names not "PC".

We have to have and to use common courtesy in speaking of and about others.

In an awful lot of cases, being 'politically correct' is simply another name...for exhibiting 'manners.'

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by xNYer

Obviously Nazi's engaged in politically correct behavior to avoid offending minorities?

Control of speech is what the Nazis and other totalitarian regimes did. If you spoke up against Hitler you were mentally ill, an enemy of the state, and/or headed for the gas chambers.

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

In an awful lot of cases, being 'politically correct' is simply another name...for exhibiting 'manners.'

And in many, being PC is intended to obfuscate the truth, e.g.,

Undocumented worker = illegal alien

Undocumented pharmacist = drug dealer (my favorite)

Bald- Comb free

Blind- Visually challenged

Bum - Homeless Person

Cannibalism - Intra-Species Dining

Cheating - Academic Dishonesty

Cowardly - Challenge Challenged

Dead - living impaired

Dish Washer - utensil sanitizer

Fat - People of Mass or I'm just "thick"

Gang - Youth Group

Homeless - outdoor urban dwellers

Insult - Emotional Rape

Midget / Dwarf - Little People

Redneck - person of region

Drunk - spacially perplexed

Dishonest - Ethically disoriented.

Garbage Man - sanitation engineer

Gas Station Attendent - petroleum transfer technician

Mankind- Earth Children

Geek, Nerd, - socially challenged

Loser - uniquely fortuned individual on an alternative career path

I'm sure you get my point. Sometimes "manners" is just another way of obfuscating. In the real world of work, I used to call much of it "up the ladder sideways." Why would a person be a manager, when they managed nothing. How about a director who had no direction.

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[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by ColdNoMore

In an awful lot of cases, being 'politically correct' is simply another name...for exhibiting 'manners.'

Being politically correct is a sign of being brainwashed.

[ColdNoMore]

Thanks to all that proved my point...I appreciate it.

[Uberschaf]

I wish offended people would react like fainting goats and quietly tip over.

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by Uberschaf

I wish offended people would react like fainting goats and quietly tip over.

[rubicon]

The application of politically correct speech primary purpose is to stifle debate and one's opinion.

It use to be if someone desired to show good manners they simply remained reticent.

Unfortunately we have all too often and for too long witnessed that the art of reticence is lost on portion of our population

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Sandtrap328

What are some of the principles of political correctness you are speaking about in your first sentence?

As for your second sentence, I hope you do not call other races, ethnicities, gendered identified, etc by names not "PC".

We have to have and to use common courtesy in speaking of and about others.

Obviously agree, but there is a HUGE difference between a racial or ethnic slur and some of these "PC" terms.

I still refer to my grandson as a freshman, not a "first year", I think a "first year" best describes a baby in diapers.

I will continue to refer to a murder suspect as just that, not a "community member"

And if a 16 year old girl takes offense at being called a girl because she has "self identified" as gender neutral, well TFB. Very easy to identify her gender---and note that it is SHE, not ZE. Please keep HER out of the MEN's room.