From: Typhon@yabbs
To: laelth@yabbs
Subject: PC is the new Plague
Date: Mon Aug 15 19:18:21 1994
I hate the whole idea of "political Correctness" People are losing their 
lives over this filth, this silent pressure to conform...I don not agree 
with you that this is standing up for traditionally oppressed peoples, 
although I believe that you may think it truly is, and am not flaming you.
I just despise this trend of "YOU MUST THINK AS WE DO" that has occured 
all over the country, at colleges and universities and even in the 
mainstream.
Example: I wrote a poem about mutilating myself. IT WAS A POEM! I read 
this poem at a poetry reading. IMMEDIATELY, th ePC police )A posse of 
freshmen and sophmores who have taken it upon themselves to control all 
our thoughtrs apparently) came to em and told me that my poem would put 
the idea in others heads to do the same, that it was offensive and 
degrading (TO WHOM!? IT WAS ABOUT ME!?) and that they thought that Art 
should be uplifting to all. So I countered with the works of Kafka, 
Goethe, Eliot, Dante Aligheri, Pound, to name a few. They hadn'tr read 
them. So I basically said that until they actually took the TIME to read 
literature, I wasn't going tro meekly acceept their opinions on it. 
This blossomed into a major controversy. When the poem was published, they 
wrote enraged letters full of rhetoric to the school newspaper. When I 
read it again at trhe next Poetry reading, they booed me. (They were, 
however, set upon by nearly the entire crowd, so I felt vindicated)
Why did they do this? To keep ME from degrading (They said) ME. I cannot 
do that, in my opinion, since being human is to be a meat package, a pain 
editor. 
So you see, THAT is what PC is to me. The rampant attempt to foist off 
another's mindset on you by the supposed "Intelligensia" who, after all, 
are better equipped to do our thinking than WE are.

Typhon the Firebreather