Political Correctness Gone Mad

[Neonbob]

Go listen to George Carlin for awhile. He's got a few good ones. I think some asshats are calling seatbelts "personal restraint systems" now.

How are seatbelts even remotely connected to any kind of racism or the like???

They aren't in the slightest! But the use of euphemisms is what I was targeting. Also, the old "short people are 'vertically challenged'" thing is pretty absurd.
Follow this for some entertainment courtesy of the master:
http://www.iceboxman.com/carlin/pael.php

 

[Tech Team FTW!]

The Taiwanese Olympic team actually represented "Chinese Taipei".

 

[TwistedEllipses]

lol, they rewrote that song? that is hilarious!

I was recently corrected for saying "Third World"... Wasn't extremely funny or anything, i was just surprised at how now it is politically incorrect to say Third World, yet a couple of years ago every politician on the planet was saying it an alarming amount.

That's less political correctness, more to do with fact that no-one even knows what the first and second worlds are anymore...

 

[Simalacrum]

i remember when i went to an American summer camp (though abotu 25% of the camp consisted of foreigners, myself included) we were plaing some sort of game... they separated the teams into "white" team and "coloured" team... i facepalmed hard lol

 

[ThePoodonkis]

When I was little, me and my classmates were supposed to sit with our legs crossed on the floor. This was know as "Sitting Indian style". Now, it is offensive. The children must sit "criss-cross Applesauce"

 

[Quttan]

Am I the only one who thinks that all this idiotic political correctness having to do with completely legitimate uses of the word black without any implied connections to actual black people could be solved if people just started using the word negro instead? Why did negro even fall out of favor? Before the 60's negro was the accepted neutral term for black people, without any negative connotations. Replacing negro with black just served to replace it with a new word and created a negative one. The saddest thing is that they both mean the exact same thing in different languages!

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Is it only racism if it is towards black people?

Absolutely.
And it's absolutely annoying how that works.

When I was little, me and my classmates were supposed to sit with our legs crossed on the floor. This was know as "Sitting Indian style". Now, it is offensive. The children must sit "criss-cross Applesauce"

The latter offends me because it is stupid on a truly incredible level.

"I never liked applesauce! They are oppressing my opinions! I demand that they treat me differently because I am a whiny ***** who can't deal with anything that could possibly be interpreted as offensive!" Good god people, call the whaaaaambulance.

 

[Skruff]

I'm calling bullshit on pretty much every post in this thread.

1. No credible link to prove.
2. Mysterious 'they' instigating changes.
3. This stuffs just to ludicrous.

Please though, prove me wrong.

I can't find anything legitimate on the colored coffee claim, but here's a link on "Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep" -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4782856.stm

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

When I was little, me and my classmates were supposed to sit with our legs crossed on the floor. This was know as "Sitting Indian style". Now, it is offensive. The children must sit "criss-cross Applesauce"

We just said cross your legs but hey. Any way yer political correctness is getting out of hand. Before u know it we'll be living in a mirrors edge like state.

 

[curlycrouton]

This [http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljokepcredridinghood.htm] is political correctness taken to the max.

That's fantastic, not to mention painfully poignant.

 

[MrGFunk]

i remember when i went to an American summer camp (though abotu 25% of the camp consisted of foreigners, myself included) we were plaing some sort of game... they separated the teams into "white" team and "coloured" team... i facepalmed hard lol

That's so weird. Surely they'd just have two coloured teams like Red vs Blue.

Anyway, it's all about shirts and skins.

 

[Eskay]

I'm calling bullshit on pretty much every post in this thread.

1. No credible link to prove.
2. Mysterious 'they' instigating changes.
3. This stuffs just to ludicrous.

Please though, prove me wrong.

I can't find anything legitimate on the colored coffee claim, but here's a link on "Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep" -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4782856.stm

"Pact has established that children sing a variety of descriptive words in the nursery rhyme to turn the song into an action rhyme," the charity said in a statement.

"They sing happy, sad, bouncing, hopping, pink, blue, black and white sheep etc and they also exchange boy and girl at the end of the rhyme.

"This encourages the children to extend their vocabulary and use up some energy."

A bit silly, not entirely unreasonable though. Also nothing to do with political correctness.
Reading the story further, a similar move elsewhere that WAS pc motivated was scrapped before being put in.

 

[JC175]

Freedom Fries. That was just silly.

 

[Doug]

If you ever need to point out political correctness gone mad, Moviebob has some tips based on the apparent 'sexism' games are accused of:

 

[FallenRainbows]

Coloured coffee? Baba coloured sheep? These have to be jokes, or else the world truly has gone mad.

BaBa Rainbow sheep is very real was on the news over here in Englishland last year sometime.

 

[SmilingKitsune]

Coloured coffee? Baba coloured sheep? These have to be jokes, or else the world truly has gone mad.

BaBa Rainbow sheep is very real was on the news over here in Englishland last year sometime.

~sigh~ Faith in humanity -1.

 

[FallenRainbows]

Coloured coffee? Baba coloured sheep? These have to be jokes, or else the world truly has gone mad.

BaBa Rainbow sheep is very real was on the news over here in Englishland last year sometime.

~sigh~ Faith in humanity -1.

It is okay, I'm raising an army to eradicate stupidity; Steven Fry has voluntered to spread word of our cause; Look to the west for the coming storm. When we come; They Will die. All of them.