Political Correctness Be Damned!

Political correctness is making us stupid and illiterate people!

What a nation of wusses we have become! Why? Because it seems like everything anyone says is offensive. It's as if the entire nation is nothing but one giant open sore, and everyone has a salt shaker or a rake.

I was listening to Mark Styn sitting in for Rush Limbaugh a while ago. He mentioned a case where the ACLU helped the Atheists sue to remove the standard letter “T” from all print media. Yes, that's right, the letter “T”! Why? Because the old fashioned standard letter “T” looked too much like (gasp!) a cross ( that Jesus died on – representative of Christianity) and is thereby offensive to the aforementioned party (the atheists). So now all letter “t's” must have the little “tail” or “hook” on the end of it so as to NOT look like THE CROSS OF CHRIST!

I can just imagine how labor intensive this case was. The preparation it must have taken, hours, days, weeks, months, who knows how long, or how much money was spent. As my West Indian Mom used to say in her thick accent: “Day don' 'ave a day job.” She was right, and they were probably doing it all on government grant money.

There are a bevy of things one cannot say or you will be labeled a racist, homophobic, massagenist, etc. For fear of offending someone, you literally can't speak or write certain things.

You can't call someone “nuts” or a “retard” anymore, for fear of being called insensitive to the “mentally challenged.” I thought that being mentally challenged was someone who was working through the New York Times crossword puzzle......

You can't call a gay man a “faggot” anymore for fear of being called “homophobic”. You must now refer to them as “homosexuals” or “gay”. In the Bible God refers to these people as “abominations and Sodomites”. I guess the Libs would or already have called God a homophobe too. By the way, I thought the word “gay” was supposed to mean “happy”.....

Back in the day my Dad used to call them “fairies”...... Ops! Ya can't say that either........

And you can't call female gay women what we used to call them back in my day. The words “bulldagger” and “dyke” were very popular, and were not meant as compliments because back then (late 60's early 70's) gay females looked like real rough necks. Brutish and mean looking.

But today they are called Lesbians, some are even Lipstick Lesbians. They are the ones who are ultra feminine.

There are certain colors one dare not wear for fear of being affiliated with the gay lobby. I happen to love rainbow colors. However, I wouldn't dare wear anything rainbow colored or I'd be approached by someone of the same sex. It's like flying a red flag before a bull.

For guys it's the color purple. Whether you know it or not, the color purple is the coat of arms color representing the gay male community. Whenever you see a guy who makes it a point to wear purple all the time, you know where he is coming from.

There is a whole list of things you cannot say anymore.

Police officers cannot call people EDP (emotionally disturbed people) anymore. Even though the person they are dealing with is obviously 2 French Fries short of a Happy Meal, they can't call them that. It's degrading. Question: If the person has gone nutter, what do they care whether they are degraded or not?

The person could've just gunned down seventy people without any type of remorse, and he (or she) should be afforded the dignity of being called a human being. Uh, NOT!

In New York City there are multi-level housing dwellings for the poor and middle class. They were formally known as “Housing Projects” or just “Projects” for short. However, due to the bad stereotypes which came from these names (high crime, drugs, teen pregnancies, shootings, public assistance, etc), some wise acre got it into their mind that the word “projects” was an insult to the people who lived there.

Approximately 14 years ago, a statement was issued to all New York City agencies (including the NYPD) which designated that housing projects must called “developments” forthwith. As if renaming said buildings made their environment any better...... To this day many of these so-called “developments” remain drug and crime ridden hovels.

I've noticed Political Correctness has gotten so bad it's affected Rush Limbaugh. Shock of all shocks, on Thursday 01/31/2013 he verbally redacted the word “retard” from his statement, apologized profusely and used another word. o_O

I've also noticed the use of the words “low information” as a substitute for the word “stupid”. To me, if a person is stupid, they should be called stupid, period. Then again, I'm from the old school where we call a spade a spade. 

To not do so is accelerate our society into idiocy. You are no longer speaking the English language, you are speaking Pig Latin or some sort of other gibberish. No wonder we are a confused and discombobulated people! When you limit what people can say or write, people can no longer effectively express themselves. Perhaps we will become a society of “mimes” ........

I could go on with this diatribe, but I believe I got my point across. I tried to make it entertaining enough so that you would at least chuckle instead of bonking your head on the computer keyboard.

I hope I was successful........ :=)