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The TB Non-PC club!

#61
I'll join the club. If my opinions offend you, that's a you problem. By the way if your opinions offend me that's also a you problem :) just kidding. I greatly prefer a world in which people are free to speak their mind. At least then you know what the other person is actually thinking.

Oh, and Merry Christmas, Happy Easter, Happy Good Friday, Happy St. Patrick's Day, etc... and I think you're an idiot.
 
#64
Diggler said:
How many of you who are proclaiming that you hate 'PC' were standing on the sidelines yelling for Imus' head when he made the "nappy headed ho's" remark?

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Ahhhhh...Imus.

He apologized. It was dumb of him to say that...there's that whole "common sense" thing at work. But he did apologize. And the ladies he insulted, for the most part, accepted his apology. That is where it should have ended.

But, you know...that's just my o-pin-yun...

Cherie ;)
 
#66
jomahu said:
and for all those raggin on the ACLU...freedom of speech is for everyone. even racists and pedophiles. and gun owners. and fred phelps. and christians. and atheists.

can't pick and choose, people.
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sshhhhh!

Listen, when a self-proclaimed "non-PC" person expresses his distaste for the ACLU because they represent Nazis or whatever, it's a moment of beautiful irony. He doesn't realize that being a Nazi is just about the most non-PC thing in the world to be, and that his desire to shut them (and the ACLU) up is a very politically correct desire to have.

So please, let these people make statements that dig them deeper and deeper into the irony hole until someday, here's hoping, they actually sit down and have a good, in-depth think about their values and realize it for themselves.

But perhaps I've said too much... :ninja:
 
#67
Diggler said:
How many of you who are proclaiming that you hate 'PC' were standing on the sidelines yelling for Imus' head when he made the "nappy headed ho's" remark?

:D
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oooooh, pick me!
i preferred that imus act a fool on radio instead of grabbing a crowbar and doing a james byrd on people.

p.s. all this talk of P.C. makes me want to go listen to that Prince song...uh, that bears the same initials.
P.C. indeed. :bassist:
 
#69
One may be surprised to find me in this thread, as those who have read my posts on racism and such would probably think I am some sort of PC nut. Nope, and here's why:

Those who know me in real life know that I am probably one of the biggest non-PC people they've ever met. I've been known to actually go overboard and offend people who claim they don't get offended at anything:hiding::help::o. I think PC was a good idea in practice, but now has been overblown and executed very poorly.

I think PC has gone overboard nowadays with terms like "vertically challenged" for "short" and not being able to display religious or cultural icons in schools, etc. What Bassic83 said I agree with 100 percent. I hate the ___-Americans. Me? I'm an American of Asian heritage. But I am an American, first and foremost. In fact, (ironically), the ___-Americans can be seen as more offensive because they imply that you are of another country or continent when you were actually born here and lived here your whole life.

My diatribes on racism and discrimination focused on hateful treatment. I crack quite a few racial jokes myself :eek:in the company of friends, as they do too. That I see as harmless fun. What is harmful though, is when people actually start believing those things and have hatred and ill-will in their intent.

Overblown PC is bad for a couple of reasons. One, some of it is creepily bordering up on violating some Constitutional rights (that's all I'm gonna say about that one). Second, it actually desensitizes people so if something serious does happen, people are able to shrug it off as "more PC BS".

My personal rule is "there's a time and place for everything". I try to refrain from swearing in front of little kids, etc. There is a huge difference, IMO, between tact and PC.

Do I get kicked out from the club now or do I get a membership card?:D:hiding:
 
#70
Vince S. said:
One may be surprised to find me in this thread, as those who have read my posts on racism and such would probably think I am some sort of PC nut. Nope, and here's why:

Those who know me in real life know that I am probably one of the biggest non-PC people they've ever met. I've been known to actually go overboard and offend people who claim they don't get offended at anything:hiding::help::o. I think PC was a good idea in practice, but now has been overblown and executed very poorly.

I think PC has gone overboard nowadays with terms like "vertically challenged" for "short" and not being able to display religious or cultural icons in schools, etc. What Bassic83 said I agree with 100 percent. I hate the ___-Americans. Me? I'm an American of Asian heritage. But I am an American, first and foremost. In fact, (ironically), the ___-Americans can be seen as more offensive because they imply that you are of another country or continent when you were actually born here and lived here your whole life.

My diatribes on racism and discrimination focused on hateful treatment. I crack quite a few racial jokes myself :eek:in the company of friends, as they do too. That I see as harmless fun. What is harmful though, is when people actually start believing those things and have hatred and ill-will in their intent.

Overblown PC is bad for a couple of reasons. One, some of it is creepily bordering up on violating some Constitutional rights (that's all I'm gonna say about that one). Second, it actually desensitizes people so if something serious does happen, people are able to shrug it off as "more PC BS".

My personal rule is "there's a time and place for everything". I try to refrain from swearing in front of little kids, etc. There is a huge difference, IMO, between tact and PC.

Do I get kicked out from the club now or do I get a membership card?:D:hiding:
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And you wonder why you don't get laid. :rollno:

























































:p:D
 
#72
txbasschik said:
But isn't it just the same if you turn it the other way around?

Things come out of the mouths of some PC folks who happen to have wide forums (they're on tv or radio) that make me really, really mad. Just as much as their non-PC counterparts...we need not name names and get the thread closed. I think you get the picture.

Know what I do? I turn them off! Change the channel, read another article, put some music on! That's not enough for some folks, though. Don't they realize that ratings determine whether someone continues to have a public forum, and that not giving them the time of day will make them disappear?

If someone is making me angry in person, I just say, "Well, I disagree. If you can't stop going on about this, I'm going elsewhere." Its better, for me, than hitting 'em. So long as they agree to leave me alone, everyone's good and no one gets anything hurt other than their feelings.

I don't sue them. I don't go around trashing them. There was a guy running his mouth at the ice house the other night about women who get abused, raped, etc., and how its their fault. I could have blown up at him, I could have made a big deal. But it doesn't do any good, and only makes him more determined to run his mouth. I just told him that I could not respond without vitriol, and so I would go get myself a fresh beer instead. I left him to ponder the meaning of the word, "vitriol".

But, in this country, if you tick off some PC devotee, you had better have your attorney with you. Someone like that would have made a big stink over this dumb guy!

Its crazy! No matter what you say or how you express it, no matter your views, you're going to offend *someone*, because you can always find someone who will disagree.

PC has made it so that people no longer simply agree to disagree. No, they go attack each other, in the courts. NUTS!!! No one wants to just be a grownup and ignore things. No, they gotta go get a lawyer and make a legal stink.

Crazy.

Cherie
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By them getting a lawyer and making a legal stink over something silly like being offended is slowly but surely deteriorating the right to free speech.
 
#76
cassanova said:
By them getting a lawyer and making a legal stink over something silly like being offended is slowly but surely deteriorating the right to free speech.
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Yep. We all have to be so gorram careful what we say, where we say it, and to whom. That's not free speech! There's being polite...not saying inappropriate things out of respect for other. But this PC business has gone wayyyyy too far, so that we must fear actual retribution for our words.

No bueno.

I'm not vertically-challenged. I'm short, dangit! ;)

Cherie
 
#80
My problem with Imus isn't that he said "nappy headed ho's", it's that he completely sucks, is not entertaining, is not funny, and has a high opinion of himself.

So, I didnt' scream for his head, but I did enjoy him stepping on his own dong.

Count me a member.
 

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