The media is just another commodity to be bought and Jade Goody bought media space. That's why she was efatured so heavily in her final hours.thedelightfulme said:
Has the world gone PC crazy!?
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It's true! You do call me that! Maybe if you stopped sucking so bad you wouldn't have to resort to name calling.ace_of_something said:
It's true though, I'll let Ace call me a 'savage red' because he's my friend and I trust him, but if anyone else called me that I'd probably knock their teeth into the back of their skull
Indeed I don't like her or what she represented, in terms of 'thick chav does good', but, if you go back to the actual event, she was actually less offensive than the other girls in the group who were bashing Shilpa, but she was the one chosen to take the flak by the press.Fangface74 said:
The press needed a common hero, then an evildoer, then a victim, and they crafted her into what they wanted at each turn.
In the end, she was a not very smart girl who got lucky, then terribly unlucky, and I'm sure she'd have traded it all in for no cancer.
It's also very easy to hate online, hell I do it enough, and I don't like what I know of Jade either.
To combat racism and sexism, I think that the jellyfish called the Portuguese Man O' War should be renamed the European Person O' Conflict.
Also, when describing a penguin you should say it's an African American and Caucasian Aerially Challenged Marine Ave, not a Black and White Flightless Sea Bird.
Even the animal kingdom shan't escape the scourge of Political Correctness!
Also, when describing a penguin you should say it's an African American and Caucasian Aerially Challenged Marine Ave, not a Black and White Flightless Sea Bird.
Even the animal kingdom shan't escape the scourge of Political Correctness!
In my spoiler is a good bit of swearing, if you don't want to see it, then no clicky!
Hope thats acceptable to the mods, otherwise....yea.
People are pussies, allow racial slurs as an insult on the same level as other (harsh) insults and no one would give a shit.
For example: Hey trailer park red neck trash go screw ya cousin!
Is really comparable to: Piss off you fat arsed c**ks***er.
Its an insult. If you don't like it, go eat a tablespoon of concrete and harden the fuck up.
For example: Hey trailer park red neck trash go screw ya cousin!
Is really comparable to: Piss off you fat arsed c**ks***er.
Its an insult. If you don't like it, go eat a tablespoon of concrete and harden the fuck up.
Hope thats acceptable to the mods, otherwise....yea.
I don't think people should have double standards like that. I don't agree with it and don't think it should be allowed.
Being politically correct isn't a bad thing in itself as long as it's not taken to extremes, but it's the double standards within it that really irritate me. To illustrate:
You're allowed to be racist, as long as you're not white.
You're allowed to be sexist, as long as you're a woman.
It really annoys me.
You're allowed to be racist, as long as you're not white.
You're allowed to be sexist, as long as you're a woman.
It really annoys me.
Okay, this is driving me crazy.
You're all whinging about "newspeak" and the manipulation of language.
None of you seem to realize that "political correctness" is itself an example of using carefully-manipulated newspeak language designed specifically to strawman and discredit a set of ideas. The concept of "political correctness" was introduced into the political mainstream specifically to homogenize and marginalize the stuff it purports to describe.
Look around you in this very thread. Look at how wildly successful it's been! Look at how you're all talking about the concept of "political correctness" without any awareness of the political history of that term! Look at how you're cracking jokes that are exact copies of what people said about "political correctness" in 1993! Look at how you're saying all this stuff in the passive voice because you're not really very sure about who is actually doing it! Look at how proud you are of these "anti-PC" attitudes that you believe to be contrarian and independent! That's newspeak at work.
-- Alex
You're all whinging about "newspeak" and the manipulation of language.
None of you seem to realize that "political correctness" is itself an example of using carefully-manipulated newspeak language designed specifically to strawman and discredit a set of ideas. The concept of "political correctness" was introduced into the political mainstream specifically to homogenize and marginalize the stuff it purports to describe.
Look around you in this very thread. Look at how wildly successful it's been! Look at how you're all talking about the concept of "political correctness" without any awareness of the political history of that term! Look at how you're cracking jokes that are exact copies of what people said about "political correctness" in 1993! Look at how you're saying all this stuff in the passive voice because you're not really very sure about who is actually doing it! Look at how proud you are of these "anti-PC" attitudes that you believe to be contrarian and independent! That's newspeak at work.
-- Alex
The problem is that we continue to make a huge distinction between different races and therefore encourage large groups of people to continue the line of thinking that people of different colors, creeds, and sexualities should all be treated differently.
If we just started treating everybody the same and people stopped fucking whining about shit that can't be undone (especially you, blacks and jews) then the world would be a better place as it is NOW.
If we just started treating everybody the same and people stopped fucking whining about shit that can't be undone (especially you, blacks and jews) then the world would be a better place as it is NOW.
Oh awesome, another PC thread. Another chance to plug Stewart [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IYx4Bc6_eE] Lee [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K21e7po1Sro].
You can't even scrawl racial slurs on someone's car in human excrement these days without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat.
You can't even scrawl racial slurs on someone's car in human excrement these days without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat.
I LIVED a four year stint as a homeschooled shut-in with no insults or verbal conflict. When I crawled out of that hole and went to public school in grade seven, I was the most emotionally unstable teen you'd ever meet. A good round of insulting and very non-PC conversations about my failure-at-life (and my incessant crying) DID NOT make me suicidal, it made me emotionally STABLE. I'm difficult to offend now.
Feelings are like muscles, if you break down or hurt them, they build back up bigger and better. Political correctness is the equivalent of sitting on the couch all your life because exercising is "too hard".
EDIT: Watch ZP's "50 Cent: Blood on the Sand" for an excellent rant on political correctness.
Feelings are like muscles, if you break down or hurt them, they build back up bigger and better. Political correctness is the equivalent of sitting on the couch all your life because exercising is "too hard".
EDIT: Watch ZP's "50 Cent: Blood on the Sand" for an excellent rant on political correctness.
Why is it that every time you mention any about poeple bieng racist to white people some one has to try and justify it with the "Generation of slavery" story, its bull shit, its the past, I didnt do that, my ancestors didnt even do that (I'm from a poor mining family) but becuase I was born white it gives black people the right to be racist towards me???, no thats racist. Also its came to a point were you try and defend your self and your called a racist your self.Fraser.J.A said:
The history is relevant not because it happened, but because it has effects that are still around today. Ethnic minorities don't have a "right" to be racist (nobody should be racist), but it's less hurtful for someone to be racist towards a privileged and respected race (such as white people) than a marginalised race (choose any ethnic minority in a Western country).Sovvolf said:
Eh? I didn't say that. I said it was harder and they might have further to go, not that they shouldn't try.Anoctris said:
There is still much more weight when it comes to insults against people of color, because those insults had been used as part of the oppression those people faced for years.
For example, when someone put up an Obama effigy hanging on a noose, that had racial overtones due to the lynchings of blacks that occurred for years. On the other hand, when someone else hung up a Palin effigy, it lacked those overtones. While both were rather disrespectful things to do, the hanging of the black man will always have more meaning, because of that history.
And reverse racism is a bad argument. You cannot give someone the opportunity to become equal, without letting them have the means to do so. It would be like inviting a man who has been in chains his entire life into a sprint. Sure, he's been given an opportunity, but he can never match the other sprinters if he isn't given other things such as a trainer, clothes, shoes, a place to work out, etc.
So I agree with Fraser.J.A wholeheartedly. I think he is trying to point out that white people are still in power. Sure, Obama got elected, but look at his credentials! If a person of color with George Bush's intelligence got elected, then we'd be on to something.
For example, when someone put up an Obama effigy hanging on a noose, that had racial overtones due to the lynchings of blacks that occurred for years. On the other hand, when someone else hung up a Palin effigy, it lacked those overtones. While both were rather disrespectful things to do, the hanging of the black man will always have more meaning, because of that history.
And reverse racism is a bad argument. You cannot give someone the opportunity to become equal, without letting them have the means to do so. It would be like inviting a man who has been in chains his entire life into a sprint. Sure, he's been given an opportunity, but he can never match the other sprinters if he isn't given other things such as a trainer, clothes, shoes, a place to work out, etc.
So I agree with Fraser.J.A wholeheartedly. I think he is trying to point out that white people are still in power. Sure, Obama got elected, but look at his credentials! If a person of color with George Bush's intelligence got elected, then we'd be on to something.