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Both sides have their own PC. If you don't believe that try saying "tea-bagger."
To me, PC is just not being an asshole. It's about the golden rule of doing as you'd have done to you. Once the insults start flying, all bets are off as far as this place goes.
Well... tea-bagger is meant as an insult right? Then youre just being an asshole avoiding any discussion and just calling people tea baggers to win some kind of who can say more clever insults more war.
what a person means matters more than the actual word....
i.e.
If you criticize any culture other than your own, you are branded as being a "racist."
If you criticize a life style you find questionable, you are branded as being a "sexist" or "homophobe."
If you criticize behaviors which perpetuate poverty, you are told that you need to "check your privilege."
Negro.....African American
Indian....Native American....American Indian
4. Forcing kids to eat Michelle Obama-approved lunches.
I'm black and I don't want to be called a Negro. The word is ugly and has a negative connotation.
Isn't "teabagger" supposed to be an insult?
I would need to see an example of the term being used to identify what you believe is phony and substantial positioning on an issue. I've only ever seen it used when social issues are brought up that have offended a group of people and is used to describe that group of people.
For instance -
Amazon Warns About 'Racial Prejudices' In 'Tom And Jerry'
Amazon recently added tom and jerry with it's originally aired episodes. This means that it includes the representations of attitudes that existed 70 years ago. As a result they added a disclaimer identifying that Tom and Jerry have ethically dubious episodes that deal with racial perception.
People, as you can see in the comments, are calling this pc. Which i find ridiculous. The imagery of black face and other stereotypical punch lines that are made at the expense of a people in the show can be a bit a jarring to those that it hits closest to home to.
That why I pointed out that it's usually the privileged class that cries PC. Notice the racial make up of group who is crying pc and the group who is seeing it for what it is.
This is something I've noticed for many discussions in which the phrase PC is thrown around. Typically those who endorse or are otherwise unaffected by the issue take the stance of indifference, while those who are effected take it seriously.
I think your example is more than sufficient. That along with the Washington Redskins kind of 'namby pamby' crying makes me sad, compared to serious offenses.
Except that is not always the case. I'd say it's rarely the case and if the shoe fits then wear it. You watered it down to fit your narrative bu t-
If you are criticizing a culture of a race for issues that exist in all races including your own, but you refuse to acknowledge that. Then yeah you may be racist. If you want ot say things like "Black are violent, I'm just calling a spade a spade." but then are full of excuses, special pleading, and qualifiers when someone points out Russian thugs kicking the homeless, kidnapping and beating homosexuals, and targeting non Russians in violent hate crimes, then there is something amiss in your perception of the world around you.
I've addressed you on this and you gave a flippant response a long time ago. You have been given source by multiple people that explains homosexuality. Sources from legitimate experts on the topic. But you only care for your own sources that perpetuate your confirmed bias. You refuse to see anything beyond that as legitimate. And the only thing I have ever seen you give any ounce of credibility to are sources that allow to continue to see homosexuals as "weird" and "questionable". It does seem homophobic, because - to me at least, it's an irrational conclusion you keep coming to in face of all the contradictory evidence.
Well if you strip away all the causing factors for such behaviors that are rampant in impoverished areas, then yeah. Your argument is overly simplified and seems to be stemming from a place of privilege.
People not wanting their race to be used as a mascot and people addressing racial prejudices in a cartoon makes you sad?
Does it bother you if I say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas?
"Tea bagger" was first coined as a homosexual practice.
It was "borrowed" as an inside joke to insult and is now used for anyone who disagrees with the Obama administration.
I, a Canadian Liberal who supports universal health care has been called a teabagger several hundred times. That is why, when those same 'liberal' people also take offense I respond with "**** off, you hypocritical lying misfit, your mother never had any kids she wanted." or something extremely put personally offensive as opposed to the more objectionable insult of, say, a political party and it's leader.
And when someone points out simple facts, like how the prevailing "black culture's" aversion to marriage, fidelity, employment, and legal authority results in the highest poverty, unemployment, unwed single mother, STD, abortion, murder, death, violent crime, and incarceration rates of any demographic group in the entire country?
Oh, wait. I forgot. No one's allowed to talk about that, because it'sracist.
All we're expected to do is keep our mouths shut, feel guilty about slavery, and endlessly throw money at the issue through ever-expanding entitlement programs that accomplish exactly jack sh*t to address the actual root causes of the problem (while providing Leftists with a fanatical block of dependent low information supporters willing to vote for them come Hell or high-water, of course :roll: ).
There's also no requirement to watch a Redskins game. Thankfully...
But why would you want to offend people? That seems antithetical to the whole idea of Christianity, IIRC.
I'm black and I don't want to be called a Negro. The word is ugly and has a negative connotation.
Native Americans are not Indian, they were mistaken for such.
Even if i did cry i'm sure you wouldn't care. Bless your cold beating heart.Are you going to cry?
Let me be PC for you... there, there I didn't mean to be a big old nasty.
We'll censor ALL the cartoons that make any *hint* of perceived bias, because children will become racists.
It was proudly declaimed by tea-bag-wearing teapartiers as their logo until someone pointed out their ignorant error in choosing an ironically repugnant name for themselves. It's nobody's fault but their own that it stuck!
I'm black and I don't want to be called a Negro. The word is ugly and has a negative connotation.
Native Americans are not Indian, they were mistaken for such.
Negro.....African American
Indian....Native American....American Indian
They're Indians if I choose to call them that. And when I lived in Arizona, that was their preferred term. Driving through any Indian reservation, you would see signs for "Indian school," "Indian police," etc., and there is a specialized legal field called "Indian law." I heard more than one of them take offense at being called a "Native American" instead of an Indian. They would also sometimes refer to themselves specifically as "Navajo," "Apache," "Pima," and so on.
Well... tea-bagger is meant as an insult right? Then youre just being an asshole avoiding any discussion and just calling people tea baggers to win some kind of who can say more clever insults more war.
what a person means matters more than the actual word....
I have to say it bothers me some.
Even if i did cry i'm sure you wouldn't care. Bless your cold beating heart.
Nothing was censored. It was a disclaimer. You're upset because they had the audacity to point out racism where it exists. Good for you.
I'm a nice guy... rarely intentionally mean. Nothing I do should be taken in offense... I don't intentionally insult people hardly ever.If you don't have to avoid offending people, why should I?
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