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Offline thundley4

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DUmmies against Political Correctness?
« on: November 08, 2010, 10:16:58 AM »
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JCMach1   (1000+ posts)             Sun Nov-07-10 11:25 PM
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Slur cancels Fla. school's 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9510185

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Odin2005   (1000+ posts)             Sun Nov-07-10 11:30 PM
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2. And people wonder why PC is not liked. it leads to crap like this.

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QC   (1000+ posts)           Sun Nov-07-10 11:32 PM
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3. And so one of the most powerful anti-racist literary works of the 20th century
   
cannot be performed because some people consider it racist.

Yet the kids driving around that school's parking lot are broadcasting the same word every day at 100 decibels.

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LostInAnomie   (1000+ posts)           Sun Nov-07-10 11:33 PM
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4. Just wait until next year when they do The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
   
I've never got the uber-PCist's inability to understand context.

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Rage for Order   (1000+ posts)             Sun Nov-07-10 11:34 PM
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5. Well, between this particluar act of idiocy
   
And the annual rite of not allowing school children to perform Christmas Carols at Christmas plays, it's easy to see why people have a negative opinion of PC.

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eggplant   (274 posts)           Sun Nov-07-10 11:47 PM
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7. Wait... what?
   
How can you compare To Kill a Mockingbird with singing religious songs in public school?

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uncommon   (1000+ posts)           Mon Nov-08-10 06:16 AM
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11. Banning Christmas in schools is stupid.
   
Most Americans celebrate Christmas.

I think it's reasonable to mention both of these happenings.

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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts)           Mon Nov-08-10 08:46 AM
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20. Way to hijack a thread.
   
That is an entirely different, and unrelated, issue.

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redirish28 (1000+ posts)             Sun Nov-07-10 11:45 PM
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6. OMG political Correctness to the extreme.
   
Maybe it is a double standard but when it does appear in historic-fiction (ie To Kill a Mocking Bird, Huckleberry Finn) You learned the insist of the mind set of the people of that day and age. It is useful as a teaching tool in the right hands. This is the problem. People want to air brush history instead of looking at it for all it's flaws and scars and learning from it. (MY wife's opinion)
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Airbrush History?  Like ignoring the millions killed by communist and socialist regimes?

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Puregonzo1188 (570 posts)             Mon Nov-08-10 12:36 AM
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8. So stupid. I remember the controversy over Huck Finn being taught in schools, given the use of the n
   
word. And then when I read it in 10th grade, I remember thinking the book clearly had an anti-racist message. Not to mention Twain was a hardcore anti-imperialist (even by DU standards) and early supporter of trade unions. People can be so short-sighted.

The law of unintended consequences.

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reggie the dog (1000+ posts)           Mon Nov-08-10 06:14 AM
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9. "you ****** lover" said by a racist as he spits in the face of a lawyer
   
defending a black man WRONGLY accused of rape (he had sex with the woman who was willing but the father couldnt handle it so he beat her and told her to say it was rape).


the school board sees the word ****** and makes a judgement about its meaning without taking context into account at all...... what the ****??????

Any excuse to post that word, right?

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JCMach1   (1000+ posts)             Mon Nov-08-10 07:04 AM
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13. Or maybe they ARE reading the context and they don't like it- Palm Coast= Rich Retirees
   
i.e. Republicans

Rich retirees are unlikely to have kids in the school and are probably not the ones complaining.

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uncommon   (1000+ posts)           Mon Nov-08-10 06:15 AM
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10. Lovely. Excessive political correctness leading to even less understanding of history.
   
Ain't it wonderful?

Typical of the education system ran by the left.

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Re: DUmmies against Political Correctness?
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2010, 10:58:52 AM »
I quote myself elsewhere:

"I will know the Republic is safe when:

"1. I can open an ethnic restaurant under the name of that ethnicity's 'worst' cognomen (such as, but not limited to 'Hiram the Honky's Hamburger Heaven') and costume the staff in ridiculous stereotypes, all without fear of legal liability."

Or a fried chicken and watermelon establishment named for Huck's buddy....
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Re: DUmmies against Political Correctness?
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2010, 11:12:01 AM »
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reggie the dog (1000+ posts)           Mon Nov-08-10 06:14 AM
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9. "you ****** lover" said by a racist as he spits in the face of a lawyer
   
defending a black man WRONGLY accused of rape (he had sex with the woman who was willing but the father couldnt handle it so he beat her and told her to say it was rape).


the school board sees the word ****** and makes a judgement about its meaning without taking context into account at all...... what the ****??????

Tom did not have sex with that woman. DUmmy.
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Re: DUmmies against Political Correctness?
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2010, 11:18:01 AM »
Anybody remember Sambos restaurants?
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Re: DUmmies against Political Correctness?
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2010, 11:24:10 AM »
Quote from: Randy on November 08, 2010, 11:18:01 AM
Anybody remember Sambos restaurants?

I do! Loved the pancakes and the murals telling the stories.
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Re: DUmmies against Political Correctness?
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2010, 11:27:09 AM »
And what ideology promotes Political Correctness?
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Re: DUmmies against Political Correctness?
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2010, 11:27:54 AM »
Reap the whirlwind, DUmbasses....
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Re: DUmmies against Political Correctness?
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2010, 12:11:08 PM »
I think the whole PC bullshit movement started with Sambos. The name had nothing to do racism ever. The murals Wineslob remembers evolved from the storybook as the chain embraced it. The burgeoning PC crowd pitched a bitch till the chain went under.

With that taste stuck in their teeth they went after anything and everything they could make up a racist bankshot for.
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Re: DUmmies against Political Correctness?
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2010, 12:28:00 PM »
Quote from: Randy on November 08, 2010, 11:18:01 AM
Anybody remember Sambos restaurants?

I do.  And I also have my much-read childhood book, Little Black Sambo, to this day.

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Re: DUmmies against Political Correctness?
« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2010, 12:35:36 PM »
Quote from: Randy on November 08, 2010, 11:18:01 AM
Anybody remember Sambos restaurants?

Remember hell, we still have a "Sambos' Grill".....not the same as what you are referring to though....it's named after the owner, "Sambo F........".
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Re: DUmmies against Political Correctness?
« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2010, 01:43:06 PM »
Quote from: Randy on November 08, 2010, 11:18:01 AM
Anybody remember Sambos restaurants?

Loved Sambo's when I was a kid... Like Denny's with racist murals.
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Re: DUmmies against Political Correctness?
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Re: DUmmies against Political Correctness?
« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2010, 05:39:17 PM »
Take your political correctness and shove it up your pipe.
That's where I stand on that political bull crap. :naughty: :-)
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Re: DUmmies against Political Correctness?
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