From: pixy@yabbs
To: Natalie@yabbs
Subject: re: PC
Date: Tue Aug 16 01:30:50 1994
In message re: PC, Natalie said:
> i'm sorry, but i'm not goingto change the way i speak just so someone's 
> feelings don'tget hurt.  for example, i have an aunt.  she's retarded.  
> she is NOT mentally challenged.  she is retarded.  there is no challenge 
> there because she does not have the mental faculties to succeed.  i will 

*I might be 20 posts behind, but who cares? I've a few cents to throw on
this one*

NO one has ever been able to define the term political correctness to me,
so here's my guess: PC is the euphemising of language for the sake of others.

Now, using that definition, let me unfold a small irony in the PC
movement. Ironically, by using the term Politically correct instead of
oversensitive or spineless, aren't you being somewhat politically correct?

Enough of that. I think that PC is a Republican ploy to capatalize on the
tensions and frustrations that have risen from the average man as he tries
to adjust to the liberal mind-set. I would say it's a great ploy, too;
it's been a highly successful addition to the usual Republican dogma. And
why not? Now the Republicans can make the Liberals look like oppressors
instead of vice versa. 
Of course, the whole PC phenomina sounds great until you begin to THINK
about it. Is the anti-PC movement founded upon well thought out principles
and values, or a distracting political ploy by hack conservatives?
Naturally, it's the latter. Think about it, if being racially and sexually
and whatever else sensitive when you speak is such a bad thing, why don't
the hack conservatives take their beliefs to their logical end and use
such words as "nigger", "bitch", and "cripple"--well, in public, that is?

I am a firm believer that the liberal racial ideology will do more to
separate people than unite them; I think that forced sensitivity leads to
partisan animosity. But I also believe that mainstream "conservatives" are
shortsighted--certainly not self aware--in rebelling against political
correctness. In fact, I believe most people who throw the term PC around
alot employ it in their own way. Don't many mainstream conservatives
demand sensitivities of their own? What else could we see censorship of
"obscenities" as but the exercise of conservative correctness? 

So, feel free to fight PC, but don't pussy out on us and only go half way. 
pixy