Due to the climate of political correctness now pervading America, there are some subtle changes to the way we speak which we should get used to.

First off, Kentuckians, Tennesseans and West Virginians will no longer be referred to as "HILLBILLIES." You must now refer to them as

APPALACHIAN-AMERICANS

Furthermore If you are speaking about a woman:

1 She is not a "BABE" or a "CHICK" - She is a " BREASTED AMERICAN."
2 She is not "EASY" - She is "HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE."
3 She is not a "DUMB BLONDE" - She is a "LIGHT-HAIRED DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY."
4 She has not "BEEN AROUND" - She is a "PREVIOUSLY-ENJOYED COMPANION."
5 She does not "NAG" you - She becomes " VERBALLY REPETITIVE."
6 She is not a "TWO-BIT HOOKER" - She is a " LOW COST PROVIDER."

If speaking about a man:
1 He does not have a "BEER GUT" - He has developed a "LIQUID GRAIN STORAGE FACILITY."
2 He is not a "BAD DANCER" - He is " OVERLY CAUCASIAN."
3 He does not "GET LOST ALL THE TIME" - He " INVESTIGATES ALTERNATIVE DESTINATIONS."
4 He is not "BALDING" - He is in "FOLLICLE REGRESSION."
5 He does not act like a "TOTAL ***" - He develops a case of RECTAL-CRANIAL INVERSION."
6 It's not his "CRACK" you see hanging out of his pants - It's "REAR CLEAVAGE."

Please begin implementing these changes as soon as possible. Thanks

You forgot some:

"EVANGELICAL REPUBLICANS". You must call them – "REALITY CHALLENGED"






fastreplies

Originally Posted by fastreplies

You forgot some:

"EVANGELICAL REPUBLICANS". You must call them – "REALITY CHALLENGED"

That name has already been reserved for the Democratic Party. Here's something of interest.

The following is the 2007 winning entry from an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.

This year's term: Political Correctness.


"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

I thought political correctness was a Republican thing. Liberals are all for liberty, including the right to free speech. Conservatives are all for moral policing.

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Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

I thought political correctness was a Republican thing. Liberals are all for liberty, including the right to free speech. Conservatives are all for moral policing.

Political correctness!=Liberty
Morality!=Political Correctness

Can there be any doubt that Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson are the self appointed police, judge, and jury of who is and is not a racist in America based on speech that is not politically correct? They were left leaning last time I checked. ACLU filing suits for the flying of the Confederate flag over the South Carolina Capitol, even though the majority of the populous supports its presence? Suing State of Utah for placing crosses at the side of the road where fatal accidents have occurred to raise awareness of driving safety? Changing the words "Merry Christmas" posted in Malls and Parks to the words "Seasons Greatings", even though the majority of the population in the area is Christian, and even the non-religious still celebrate Christmas? Thats not liberty, its ridiculous.

You forgot a few:

She is not a "FAT CHICK": she is "METABOLICALLY CHALLENGED".
He is not a "DEADBEAT DAD": he is "PARENTALLY FINANCIALLY, EMOTIONALLY, AND/OR SOCIALLY IMPAIRED."

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

I thought political correctness was a Republican thing. Liberals are all for liberty, including the right to free speech. Conservatives are all for moral policing.

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I am sure you are joking.

Thanks to overly zealot liberals wanting their minorities aka votes to feel they really understand their pain, the only Americans that popular America allows you to talk down to are white, republican, Christian, heterosexual, males preferably from the south.

Originally Posted by Cheshire_cat

I am sure you are joking.

Thanks to overly zealot liberals wanting their minorities aka votes to feel they really understand their pain, the only Americans that popular America allows you to talk down to are white, republican, Christian, heterosexual, males preferably from the south.

It's amazing how the white christian males think they are so persecuted. Poor things. Give them a pacifier and some cheese to go with that whine.

Originally Posted by joder

It's amazing how the white christian males think they are so persecuted. Poor things. Give them a pacifier and some cheese to go with that whine.

To drive home Cat's point, lets swap out the words "white christian males" from your post and see how it settles.

It's amazing how hispanics think they are so persecuted. Poor things. Give them a pacifier and some cheese to go with that whine.

or how about

It's amazing how black people think they are so persecuted. Poor things. Give them a pacifier and some cheese to go with that whine.

All ready to call me a bigot.. aren't ya. Here's one.

It's amazing how the jews think they are so persecuted. Poor things. Give them a pacifier and some cheese to go with that whine.

I still love George Carlin's take on political correctness. Two of his are

"A MAN'S MAN" is now "A PERSON'S PERSON"

"A HE-MAN" is now "AN IT-PERSON"

Yes, political correctness is a creation of the ultra-left, thinking that force-feeding changes in language would change attitudes. And it did--about them. Don't you dare make fun of them, they have no sense of humor. Don't you know that's why they're always so worried about kids' self esteem when they try to take over the schools? Last I checked you got self esteem in school by being able to learn and apply the material, not from some $&%&*((!! special program. No wonder Johnny can't read.

And do keep in mind that very few of these terms are actually used by the groups they're trying to apply them to. I rarely hear a black person use "African American" for instance. This is nothing new, it's just a bunch of left-wing white folk trying to downplay their feelings of guilt for being white. You used to could (hey, a southernism!) only refer to blacks as people of color, and were looked wrongly upon by saying black. But all the while that's what black people, then and now refer to themselves as. Lesson here? Changing language DOES NOT change attitudes, it ONLY works the other way around. Members of the SCLC tried to have a funeral for the "N" word. I haven't heard a drop in its use among the black population.

Don't worry, fast, I'll try to give the far right a cold dose of reality next time.

"Political Correctness" is a CROCK of CRAP.. IMO. We've become a nation of thin-skinned whiners. I'm sick to death of "PC", it's bogus.. it's like smiling in someone's face while hiding a big knife behind your back. Buck up people, get OVER it already, stop sniveling over petty garbage and go on with your lives already ! When I was a kid it was 'sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me' - what happened to that ? The prevalence of psycho-babble that says calling someone a name can hurt -- well it only hurts IF YOU LET IT.. geez !

ON the subject of "Merry Chirstmas" -- 80% of Americans are CHRISTIANS, that makes us the MAJORITY -- why should WE bury OUR beliefs and holiday celebrations for that last 20% ? We don't stop THEM from saying "Happy Hannukah" or "Happy Kwanzaa" or whatever your holidays are.. so why does this MINORITY get to stop the rest of us ? GET OVER IT ALREADY - IT'S CHRISTMAS ! The rest can celebrate whatever they want - or not. This nation was founded on religious freedom and tolerance, if you're a member of that other 20% and you don't like it here.. you're perfectly welcome to go somewhere else or go back to where you came from if you weren't born here.

PC - -I hate it.. can you tell ??

Hey LadynRed why don't you tell us how you really feel.

Could not agree more if I wrote it myself.

Originally Posted by cbwm

All ready to call me a bigot.. aren't ya.

No, a conservative who only sees things one way is more like it.

I see the "white heterosexual christian males" as the ones who think everyone should be just like them.

This nation was founded on religious freedom and tolerance, if you're a member of that other 20% and you don't like it here.. you're perfectly welcome to go somewhere else or go back to where you came from if you weren't born here.

So LadynRed, you lump all non-christians into one big group and mislabel them? Since you said 80% are christians, you are saying the other 20% are intolerant, which to use one of your words is CRAP.

The U.S. is still a constitutional republic not a mob-led democracy.

EDIT:

Look at all the whiney christians who can't stand it if Target is not telling them merry christ-mass. They think the stores have to tell them. I guess they can't get enough in church, they have to commercialize the baal/catholic holiday.

I forget who said this:

Some people you don't have to make fun of. You just quote 'em.

I think this pretty much sums up the politically correct crowd. You can always tell how far off the deep end they've gone by how much their sense of humor has shriveled.

Okay, here's my take on the whole Christmas thing:

I am a white, lesbian male. I'm not a Christian. I'm an atheist. I friggin' hate Christmas with a passion as a result. It's just a commercialized waste of time.

I don't care if you celebrate Christmas in the privacy of your own home. That's your right. I choose not to. What I have the problem with is the idea that it has to be mass-produced, overexposed, commercialized and rammed down my throat starting in the beginning of October and going right through till the middle of January. I wouldn't care if the religious holiday was Christmas, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Chinese New Year, Festivus, Pride Week, whatever...stop cramming meaningless holidays that are the same as every other day down my throat. Let me treat it the way I want to treat it.

I don't want to hear "Merry Christmas" from a supermarket cashier who I will probably never see again, or even "Happy Holidays" from some random idiot who doesn't even know who I am.

You can believe what you want, and that's fine. You can worship an elephant's *** for all I care. But when you start going public with your views, you're effectively trying to convert others and force them into the same viewpoint, and that's what leads to a lot of war and fighting. Keep it to yourself, and within designated religious areas.

(Note to the JWs out there: this goes double for you guys. I don't want to hear about how God kills us a little every time we sin. That doesn't explain stillborns.)

Lol..... I recently wrote a blog post about this topic. Some people are just waaaaay too sensitive about words people use to describe others.

Then there are others (like Bill O'Reilly) who take it to the next level and state there's a culture war going on in the U.S.

Originally Posted by joder

The U.S. is still a constitutional republic not a mob-led democracy.

Completely agree, we live in a pluralist society, where everyone, even the little guy with the crazy ideas, should get to have his voice heard.

If you're upset about some company using Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or whatever, then don't shop there. For religious people trying to make you "see the light" or something, just ignore them, it isn't that hard to do.

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

I am a white, lesbian male. I'm not a Christian. I'm an atheist.

What is a white, lesbian male????

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

You can believe what you want, and that's fine. You can worship an elephant's *** for all I care. But when you start going public with your views, you're effectively trying to convert others and force them into the same viewpoint, and that's what leads to a lot of war and fighting. Keep it to yourself, and within designated religious areas.

I don't think they're trying to "convert" non-believers with PC, I think they're just too wussed up by the far left into thinking that if they don't be PC, no one will purchase there products for being too "insensitive" or whatever to minorities, thus damaging the corporation's image and reputation.

Originally Posted by jamestl2

Completely agree, we live in a pluralist society, where everyone, even the little guy with the crazy ideas, should get to have his voice heard.

If you're upset about some company using Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or whatever, then don't shop there. For religious people trying to make you "see the light" or something, just ignore them, it isn't that hard to do.

I personally could care less whether someone says Merry Christmas, etc. To me Christmass is just another holiday that is celebrated secularly. What gets me is the far-right crowd who think everyone has to think of Mithras Jesus at this time and worship him. If they want to hear the magic words, they can go shop where they are said and boycott the stores where they are not.

It is amazing to hear attitudes like, if you don't like my views get out of the country. That is exactly like the Spanish did to the Jews in the 15th century and the attitude of much of the middle east today. And this from those conservatives that claim tolerance.

Screw political correctness. And that from both extreme left and extreme right.

Originally Posted by joder

No, a conservative who only sees things one way is more like it.

Oh, I see the opposing viewpoints, I just don't agree with them. I'm also a not a conservative by definition. Socially and religiously liberal, fiscally conservative. And you have to admit, any of those other quotes if posted individually, would have the poster classified as a bigot in the eyes of many.

Originally Posted by joder

I see the "white heterosexual christian males" as the ones who think everyone should be just like them.

Actually, everyone things everyone should be just like them. Its a very human quality. The PC crowd think we should all talk like them. Funny that the liberals beat the PC drum while supposedly championing free speech at the same time.

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

I'm an atheist. I friggin' hate Christmas with a passion as a result. It's just a commercialized waste of time.

I don't want to hear "Merry Christmas" from a supermarket cashier who I will probably never see again, or even "Happy Holidays" from some random idiot who doesn't even know who I am.

You can believe what you want, and that's fine. You can worship an elephant's *** for all I care. But when you start going public with your views, you're effectively trying to convert others and force them into the same viewpoint, and that's what leads to a lot of war and fighting. Keep it to yourself, and within designated religious areas.

That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. The cashier says "Merry Christmas" and she is part of some conspiracy to convert you to christianity? How bout the voice prompts that say Oprima numero uno para espanol". Are they trying to convert you into a Latino? That whole line of reasoning sounds suspiciously like religious intolerance, the fight against which was one of the founding principals of our nation. Your views would be equally welcome if you went to Hawaii and asked them not to say Mahalo, Costa Rica and not say Pura Vida, or Australia and not have them say Good on ya.

It's off topic, because I don't feel a Christmas tree in a shopping mall asks anything of you, but are you arguing that advertisers of any type, including those of the religious type, not be able to advertise in public? If that is your goal, I wouldn't hold your breath.

Originally Posted by cbwm

The PC crowd think we should all talk like them. Funny that the liberals beat the PC drum while supposedly championing free speech at the same time.

The far-left (not all liberals) and the far-right (not all conservatives) are both wrong.

Originally Posted by joder

What gets me is the far-right crowd who think everyone has to think of Mithras Jesus at this time and worship him.
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It is amazing to hear attitudes like, if you don't like my views get out of the country.
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And this from those conservatives that claim tolerance.

And your the guy who said the white heterosexual Christian males had persecution complex? You really believe someone is insisting that you "Think of Jesus" at Christmas, and wants you to like their views or leave the country? Paranoid much?