Sindawe said:
People who want to find racism and offense will find it not matter WHAT another person does. Its just a fact of life. I long ago stopped giving a hoot about PCness and worrying about what some stranger may think. Life is too freaking short and fragile to be concerned with bluenoses and their ilk. Those who would find offense in my innocent comments, well, they can just go frell themselves.
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Thanks, Sindawe, you saved me the trouble of answering this nonsense.
This PC crap derives mainly from a misapprehension about human nature: That it can be "improved" and should be. Instead of "removing the mote" from the own eyes, the PCers want to do that to the rest of us.
Which leads to what I believe is the main force behind the PC movement: to control what others say and think according to the nonsensical, or sinister, notions of the PCers.
Janitors are sanitary engineers, cripples are variously challenged, etc.
Goes well with the notion that competition is bad, that score should not be kept in games, that sutpid is a good enough spelling for stupid -- just so we don't hurt the sensitive little flowers feelings. (False) self-esteem above everything else including competence. Being "nice" trumps facing the truth.
Years ago I read a story in a great rag (monthly), THE REALIST, put out by Paul Krassner. A reporter had quit his job because his editor objected to his saying that the local school now offered the 4 'R's. He was writing about a series of rapes at the school. His editor didn't want him to use the word "rape".
The reporter ended his letter of resignation by saying to his editor, "And if you don't like it, you can go be intimate with yourself".
My sentiments, exactly.
matis
