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- From: satan@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Matthew James Meyer)
- Newsgroups: alt.censorship,wpi.students.politics
- Subject: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS (INEPTNESS)
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 18:48:54 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- PC is bullshit!
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- PC is just another bit of facist politics invading another facet of our
- everyday lives - namley freedom expression.
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- PC: Let's have everyone use the same exact vocabulary, that we the elitists
- have developed, so that noone is ever offended by the words we use in our
- various modes of communication.
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- ME: i have nothing against being polite (though I do have something against
- this left shift key that isn't working), but i don't take kindly to being
- told that i will have to express myself in a specific manner as outlined
- by some authority. i received many an F in high school for writing my own
- way.
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- No matter what terminology some group develops (i.e. terms like physically
- challenged, womyn, etc. ) society can twist it in such a way that it is
- acceptable or derogatory. Bitch is a female dog and a nigger is a stupid
- person and queer means 'odd' (by dictionary standards), but society has
- turned them into insults and racial slurs. Yes, we can develop pretty
- titles, like physically challenged, which soften the truth, but sooner or
- later that will be derogatory, whether by connotation or voice inntonation.
- Why don't we just refer to people's disabilities and races by their latin
- roots - its a dead and neutral language - why not? I'm just kidding about
- the latin. Its bogus and silly. Rather than arguue over silly shit like
- PC, why don't we spend our time and resources helping the poor and homeless-
- or should i say 'the economically challenged'?
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- A Caucasian Male by the login of...
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- Satan - (is that politically correct? does this make me religiously
- challenged or deranged? i guess i will never get to be
- supreme court justice. well, i did inhale...)
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- * * my lips may promise, but my heart is a whore - nin
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