PC madness G-d is banned

[Muslimwoman]

Hi All

Anyone want to join me for a rant about political correctness gone mad? During a search today I found a short article that stated in LA the word G-d was no longer used in school textbooks because he/she was seen as 'too religious'. Have a look at the article it is so funny:

CNN.com - Language police bar 'old,' 'blind' - May. 28, 2003

Has anyone read Ernest Hemingways book "and the"? (sorry I am not allowed to say the rest)

This got me looking around for more such nonsense and in the UK tourist attractions have been banning the term BC, as in 200 years BC (as this could be offensive to nonChristians) and toll booths can no longer be 'manned' or 'unmanned' they must be 'staffed' or 'unstaffed'. It was proposed in one UK council area that the word women be replaced with the word womyn, in order to distance it from the word men. Have we really become so sensitive that we are offended by the use of everyday words? Let us get to the nitty gritty of this problem - oops not allowed to say nitty gritty as it goes back to the slave trade (can I say slave?).

So I am left with the view ........the....of.....and.....to.....twice!

[17th Angel]

I once referred to it, as the world getting soft....

Oh you can't smoke in a pub! Oh you can't use a phone while driving, You can't hit -your- child!! what are you thinking mr violent?you can't call him a black man... You have to give this woman a job, because she is a woman... Smoking is bad for you.... Your child isn't allowed to work in the mines..... Soon it will be something along the lines of I can't call you (muslimwoman) a woman as it is me pointing out your sex and and in a way discriminating/name calling..... Just watch, it'll happen.

[Muslimwoman]

Originally Posted by 17th Angel

I can't call you (muslimwoman) a woman as it is me pointing out your sex

I have sent the police to your house, you are being arrested for not only referring to my gender but also my religion - very offensive stuff. Of course I am allowed to call myself muslimwoman and shove it in your face but heaven forbid you should mention it. The world really has finally gone mad.

Even the bloody term politically correct is now being banned because it was first used by the head of the ku klux klan.

Check this out it is so funny

YouTube - politically correct christmas story

[17th Angel]

John C. Lester would turn over in his grave lol....

[flowperson]

Hi Guys...Here's a little piece that might make it all a bit clearer for you.

cheers ! Flow....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...010502193.html

[Muslimwoman]

Originally Posted by flowperson

Hi Guys...Here's a little piece that might make it all a bit clearer for you.

cheers ! Flow....

Normal Is a Moving Target - washingtonpost.com

Thanks for the link flow. I can see that people try to manouver around the constantly shifting baselines, I just find it laughable in which directions our leaders try to take us. Does this lunacy derive from sheer panic or guilt of our past? Of course we should not have the freedom to shout "hey N...er" across the street to a black person - anyone with an ounce of morals knows this is offensive but am I really offending anyone if I refer to a Manila envelope? I am referring to what has now become known as the colour of the envelope, not because I want harp back to the days of slavery.

I mean to say G-d is too religious is like saying water is too wet. It is just laughable imho.

[wil]

I think in the UK you call it the post....but over here in the good old US of A we used to say my mailman brought the mail but now we have to say my personperson brings my envelopes and puts them in my package receptacle.

But I am still contemplating G-d being to religious....I'm thinking it is true...can we pray to have him tone it down a bit, hey Allah, how about getting a little more secular, Yo YHWH maybe wear a soccer jersey and come to the game??

[Impqueen]

Lol.... I find the BCE (Before Christian Era) replacing BC (Before Christ) funny or irritating depending on my mood. From a certain point of view BCE is actually more Christian-centric because it makes all the time since Christ's birth the 'Christian Era' rather than simply the time since an important historic event.

[Muslimwoman]

Originally Posted by wil

I think in the UK you call it the post....but over here in the good old US of A we used to say my mailman brought the mail but now we have to say my personperson brings my envelopes and puts them in my package receptacle.

Personperson - I can't stop laughing.


Impqueen - great point, it does make make it more Christan focussed.

[Dondi]

Originally Posted by Impqueen

Lol.... I find the BCE (Before Christian Era) replacing BC (Before Christ) funny or irritating depending on my mood. From a certain point of view BCE is actually more Christian-centric because it makes all the time since Christ's birth the 'Christian Era' rather than simply the time since an important historic event.

I thought B.C.E. was "Before Common Era".

[wil]

Originally Posted by Dondi

I thought B.C.E. was "Before Common Era".

Yes, in attempt to secularize our international dating system CE common era and BCE were adopted...however it P.O.'d many a christian group so they modified the name...to Christian Era...sneaky petes that they are.

Of course many of us ugly Americans grew up calling BC and AD, Before Christ and After Death respectively...

Conveniently forgetting that that would toss his entire life into some sort of limbo land...

And of course all the time ignoring or not taking time to learn the latin and its meaning...

truth is often stranger than fiction.

[pattimax]

Originally Posted by flowperson

Hi Guys...Here's a little piece that might make it all a bit clearer for you.

cheers ! Flow....

Normal Is a Moving Target - washingtonpost.com

From the article:

Humans have the ability to adapt, he says. "A species has emerged on Earth that has the ability to comprehend and anticipate the things that might render it extinct. We for the first time can see the things that can do us in."

That is why people must identify which baselines are important and essential. And hold to them. "Knowledge of the past," he says, "helps us know where to go."

hmmm... can't say this is comforting.

[Snoopy]

Yes PC-bashing is a bit of a popular pastime (here in the UK at least), particularly in the reactionary rags. Perhaps in some cases it has gone “too far” but maybe in time the pendulum will swing back a little to be more balanced? PC has become a pejorative term but I would say it is simply a term for progression in society’s thinking. Without it we would all still be using the terms that most agree are offensive today. Just because a word or activity is common does not, of itself mean that it should continue. Otherwise, terms such as “N…er” WOULD still be in common parlance and children working in mines WOULD still be a common practice. Similarly, smoking in public confined places is a health hazard and using a phone whilst driving has caused deaths…(only yesterday I read of a pensioner killed by a motorist who was too busy sending a text message).

s.

[pattimax]

...Pendulems swing like a pendulem do.

[Tao_Equus]

And I thought things were getting a little better!! I must start reading the papers again. At least this city has got rid of its so called "positive discrimination" policy. Was a time here you could not get a job with the council unless you were a gay with a disability and from an ethnic minority. You may think I'm joking.... I'm not.

And I kind of disagree with you Snoopy. A word is only a word and it is its intent in use that matters. Something I really dont like about the control freakery largely brought about by lawyers on the make is the way we wrap everything in cotton wool. Its crass and its usually a lie.