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- From: REA105@psuvm.psu.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- Subject: Forced PC
- Message-ID: <92325.144148REA105@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:41:48 GMT
- Organization: Penn State University
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- Admittedly I am new to the network and I have not been reading you writings for
- but maybe two days, but I have been reading some stuff in the world of paper
- about PC. First before I get any farther into this posting let me say that I a
- m a blond-haired blue-eyed Saxon. I am what the physical epitomy(well sort of)
- Hitler's breeding idea. Let me also say that I am a first generation American
- and that I one of my grandfather's gave their life for life, liberty, and the p
- ursuit of happiness. My friends and relatives have fought for America in her v
- itories(Kuwait) and her defeats(Nam). I am a child of two worlds. I know what
- it is to be on the inside and the outside.
- Now on to my topic. PC. Maybe this is the wrong net to place this, but I
- see forced PC see and forced feminism in the same light.
- One should not force one's ideas on other's. It is not right to force othe
- rs to submit to thine own method of thinking. It is not PC to make others do a
- s you want them to. It is in that light that I say PC pushers are not PC. I s
- hould not be forced my others to change what I call myself. I am a man and so
- I can be a chairman. Just as a woman can be a chairwoman. It is my right to d
- ecide what I shall call myself. It is not your right. If I want to call mysel
- f white, I can call myself white. If I want to call myself caucasian, I can d
- o so. Forcing me to call you by want you want to be called in not right though
- . If I can not call you a woman, can a call you a lady. The word lady used sy
- molize respect, now it seems to refer to someone else. What is it safe to call
- those that have two "X" chromosomes? If I call someone black. I am wrong. I
- f I call the a negro. I am wrong. If I call the an African-American I am wron
- g. What can I call them any of them. Red, or yellow, black, or white.
- I am not saying that PC promoters are bad. Actually that is what I am doi
- ng. I am promoting the acceptance of people who have a terminology different t
- han one's one. I know a man that has died for us all. If he could accept us a
- t our varo`ious stages of learning, why can we not accept each other? After al
- l are we no all one big family that arose (with divine intervention) out of the
- same primitive soup.
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