Comments on: Does political correctness foster hypocrisy?

By: Miki Saxon

Miki Saxon — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:47:43 +0000

I’m not sure how silly it is, unless carried to extremes. Avoiding the offensive language while harboring and acting on the underlying beliefs is where I see the hypocrisy enter into it.

By: GUNNY HARTMAN

GUNNY HARTMAN — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:36:30 +0000

While I’m not a PC advocate, I’ll give its originators the benefit of the doubt that they were merely wanting to have people “be nice” and use terminology that was preferred by those in question.

There’s nothing wrong with doing unto others as we’d have them do unto us.

However, the thing gets really silly people pretend to be offended or get offended on behalf of others.

The whole just makes folks averse to communication about anything controversial, which just happen to be those same things which are worthwhile to converse about in the first place.

By: Miki Saxon

Miki Saxon — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:39:33 +0000

I agree, but there was a time when one could say “plain vanilla” and not have it reference a color, rather it meant something unadorned. Our country was supposedly a melting pot, although I’d be the first to say that the ideal was never truly realized.

By: Fitness Diva

Fitness Diva — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:04:03 +0000

Miki, we were never all VANILLA. That’s the beauty part of this country. From the very beginning, it’s always been caramel swirl rocky road!

By: TZ

TZ — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:57:54 +0000

Denis, that is fairly amusing. If that comment were made by a NASCAR commentator, I’d be much more understanding since everyone involved in the sport has at least a certain degree of redneck in them. I don’t follow the open wheel circuit, but being that the F1 Series is more international than it is American, I’d imagine that was a nice swift blow to the jaw for many of its viewers.

By: Miki Saxon

Miki Saxon — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:49:44 +0000

Actually, they’re called female-[ethnicity]-Americans according to what I read. Of course, you only include ethnicity if it indicates color, which means that I’m not a female-Russian/Romanian-American, but my friend is a female-Chinese-American. Does anyone else miss the days when when we were all just plain vanilla Americans?

By: Jessica Marburger

Jessica Marburger — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:39:06 +0000

So is it still ok to call girls girls or should we say female americans? GIVE ME A BREAK. PC has turned into a movement and some detrimental actions have occured. CHECK OUT my blog about political correctness at jessforprez2024.blogspot.com

By: Miki Saxon

Miki Saxon — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:11:39 +0000

African-Brit maybe, since a British-African would be Caucasian born in Africa, unless, of course, the Caucasian was originally from Holland, which would make him a Dutch-African, etc., etc., etc.

By: Denis

Denis — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:03:42 +0000

it actually refers to the skin color of the driver. I suppose that the pc expression would british-african…

By: Miki Saxon

Miki Saxon — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:13:05 +0000

Denis, I don’t follow racing, but I have the distinct impression here that the ‘black’ in the comment doesn’t refer to race, but possibly to the color of the car? I find that hilarious.

And you are so right about the stupidity—of course, they often go hand-in-hand.