Feb 09, 2005 10:22
I am so deathly sick of having to try and be politically correct and trying to not offend people.
The controlled speach code at many schools and campusses are hindering a students right to free speech, granted i think that some people dont even really deserve opinions, but still, its frustrating nonetheless.
A sociology professor at Ohio's Bowning Green State University noticed the political correctness craze and thought it would be an interesting topic on which to base a new course. He presented his "political correctness" course to his departmental colleagues, who turned down the proposal, as did the other departments. Speaking on behalf of the women's studies department, which also rejected the course curriculum, one "professor" declared: "We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech."
Does anyone besides me see the hypocrisy in this? It angers me that these are the people teaching our students, and i am simply baffled as to how these people got what should be such a revered proffession such as teaching.
NASA has aparently stopped refering to missions as manned and unmanned, and now refers to missions as being habited and unhabited or crewed and uncrewed.
Fem-nazism at its prime, for now any word that has the word "man" in it is now part of our grand scheme to control the world with our evil penises. I wonder if they'll try to change the word woMAN and feMALE because it has once again, alluded to the evil penis of man.
Black people became african americans, which later became people of color, fags became gays, which became homosexuals, which now became "persons of different sexual orientation" Chinks went to asian and now "people of oriental descent" Will women start demanding to be reffered to as "Persons who happen to be of the female anatomy"?
If that happens i think i will be forced to shoot myself.
Words are our main form of communication, without words, we have almost nothing. The above words evoke strong emotion, and thats what words are supposed to do, convey ideas and emotions to other people, if you happen to choose to use those words, than that represents how you feel about those people, but if we are forced to use these generic phrases, it looses its meaning, and its power. We can not let the english language deteriorate into something that is meaningless which has already started to happen with such new comings as ebonics.
So please, next time you want to say someing is "Wicked wicked gay" or god forbid refer to a colored person as "black" go right a head. If someone gets offended in the process, GOOD. People are becoming poons these days and are offended way too easily, and it needs to be stopped before it gets even more out of hand.
The natural human state is to make fun of each other, we make fun of what is different and you know what? everyone is different and thats ok. Make fun of them all you god damn want, and it in no way affects me, so I dont get involved in it and accuse random people of being rascist. What also angers me is that black (whhops i mean people of color) can make fun of white people all they want and be hailed as comic geniuses and yet if a white person makes fun of a black person, even out of just good humor, he is suddenly considered a rascist. Go figure. I wonder if white people will start asking to be called "People who are lacking in pigment"
I have one final thought on this, being politically correct, is in fact, wicked wicked gay.