oh, the fools
Oct. 24th, 2006 04:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rktok cupid has allowed me to waste much time taking mindless tests during which i should have been productive. it has also reminded me of the stupid, the racial insensitivities, immigration hate, the oppressed whiddle white man's angst.
There is way to much political correctness.
Midgets have to be called little people, which is more derogatory than just calling them PEOPLE.
Folks can't call a Native American an Indian anymore, even though that is what they were commonly called for hundreds of years.
Folks can't call a Negro a black man anymore, they must be called an African American, even though their ancestors have not set foot in Africa in generations.
Whites are now caucasion on any type of form you have to fill out.
Folks of Mexican descent have to be called Mexican Americans, even though they have never set foot south of the border.
If you legally immigrate here and get your citizenship the right and legal way or if you are born here, then you are an AMERICAN.
You are not African American, Native American, Mexican American, Asian American or any other type American.
You are just an American.
If you work on an airplane serving drinks and otherwise being helpful and leading passengers in a crisis, etc. you are a Stewardess or Steward, get over yourself and stop demanding folks call you a Flight Attendant.
If you work in a restraunt serving patrons their food and taking orders and keeping that coffee cup full, you are not a Server or Customer Service Specialist, you a Waiter or Waitress, deal with it or find another line of work.
If you are small in stature, face it you are short, it has nothing to do with being Verically Challenged. Get some platform shoes like Kim Jong Il or a step ladder or some step stools and deal with it.
If you are of enormous girth because you simply cannot push yourself away from the table or are too damned lazy to get off your huge ass and exercise. Then guess what unless your girth is caused by a disease such as diabetes or some other disorder, you are just a fat bastard/bitch. If you don't want called fat, then drop those cheetos, get up off your fat ass and do something about it.
The above are a mere drop in the bucket of the politically correct bullshit we are all exposed to every day.
It is time to stop catering to the whiny assed losers who think the world owes them something. The world doesn't owe you a damned thing.
You are people just like everyone else, your ethnicity, your weight, your hieght, your job, your eyeglasses...........none of these things make you more or less special than anyone else. So stop expecting that these things make you more or less special.
for bonus angst, check out his profile. (straight) ladies, he's a real catch! which is to say, only click any of the above if you're willing to have, at the very least, your eyes bleed.
seriously though, what makes me sad is that he thinks he probably thinks he's better than KKK-type folks. someone's always gotta be better than someone else, i suppose.
the man-child should really check himself and realize that the world doesn't owe him a damn thing.
There is way to much political correctness.
Midgets have to be called little people, which is more derogatory than just calling them PEOPLE.
Folks can't call a Native American an Indian anymore, even though that is what they were commonly called for hundreds of years.
Folks can't call a Negro a black man anymore, they must be called an African American, even though their ancestors have not set foot in Africa in generations.
Whites are now caucasion on any type of form you have to fill out.
Folks of Mexican descent have to be called Mexican Americans, even though they have never set foot south of the border.
If you legally immigrate here and get your citizenship the right and legal way or if you are born here, then you are an AMERICAN.
You are not African American, Native American, Mexican American, Asian American or any other type American.
You are just an American.
If you work on an airplane serving drinks and otherwise being helpful and leading passengers in a crisis, etc. you are a Stewardess or Steward, get over yourself and stop demanding folks call you a Flight Attendant.
If you work in a restraunt serving patrons their food and taking orders and keeping that coffee cup full, you are not a Server or Customer Service Specialist, you a Waiter or Waitress, deal with it or find another line of work.
If you are small in stature, face it you are short, it has nothing to do with being Verically Challenged. Get some platform shoes like Kim Jong Il or a step ladder or some step stools and deal with it.
If you are of enormous girth because you simply cannot push yourself away from the table or are too damned lazy to get off your huge ass and exercise. Then guess what unless your girth is caused by a disease such as diabetes or some other disorder, you are just a fat bastard/bitch. If you don't want called fat, then drop those cheetos, get up off your fat ass and do something about it.
The above are a mere drop in the bucket of the politically correct bullshit we are all exposed to every day.
It is time to stop catering to the whiny assed losers who think the world owes them something. The world doesn't owe you a damned thing.
You are people just like everyone else, your ethnicity, your weight, your hieght, your job, your eyeglasses...........none of these things make you more or less special than anyone else. So stop expecting that these things make you more or less special.
for bonus angst, check out his profile. (straight) ladies, he's a real catch! which is to say, only click any of the above if you're willing to have, at the very least, your eyes bleed.
seriously though, what makes me sad is that he thinks he probably thinks he's better than KKK-type folks. someone's always gotta be better than someone else, i suppose.
the man-child should really check himself and realize that the world doesn't owe him a damn thing.
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Date: 2006-10-24 05:25 am (UTC)what i find most amusing is that generally he's for obsfucating race/ethnicity, but magnifying disability. Obsfucation of race/ethnicity via saying everyone is equally "American" is, on one level, "politically correct" and "progressive" (in quotes, mind you, in quotes, i'm just commenting on existing discourse and not agreeing with it). But he's really hung up on the disabilities: it's ok to be fat if you have diabetes (lets not comment on the generally understood concept that being overweight due to poor diet causes diabetes, not diabetes causing overweight), but it's not ok if it's your fault. It's ok to be a little person so long as we can call 'em what they are: midgets. So is it ok if I call this guy what he is: a crip? I am almost tempting to ask him that in his blog, how should be we politically correct about the blind and the visually impaired. Shall we go back to the Bible and call them Onanites, implying the underlying moral cause of their rapid onset glaucoma? Just saying, sir, if you hadn't masturbated so much over your fellow Marines, you probably wouldn't be a crip!
Hmm, I need to go to bed.
I was randomly logged out of LJ
Date: 2006-10-24 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-24 06:14 pm (UTC)you shoul already know that i think just because he's an ass and taking the "responsibility" route, doesn't give anyone else the license to also be an ass.
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Date: 2006-10-24 06:43 pm (UTC)Similarly, the deer population is best controlled through the use of chemical birth control - the type of deer that hunters prefer does little in the way of population control - a 7 point buck has already fathered hundreds of little Bambi's. Westchester has had a lot of sucess with their birth control program - we've had a significant reduction in new births. And seeing as I'm someone who actually lives next to the biggest park in southern Westchester - we've seen a significant reduction in damage to lawns and gardens, too. Lynchburg started to implement a birth control program just as I was leaving college, and they saw improvement in the first season.
I think I'm the only one who does a little jig every time some yuppie jogger in California gets mauled by a mountain lion...
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Date: 2006-10-25 07:42 pm (UTC)a deer's horns are shed and grown annually so it's less relevent the number of points to the number of baby bambis.
and while you won't catch me behind a gun, i'd much rather have a deer killed humanely by a shot gun than by slowly dying due to an interaction with a car.
also, many (admittedly not all) actually use more of the animal killed than the vast majority of commercial meat farms. if you're gonna just say no to other people limited hunting, then just saying no to eating meat altogether makes more sense and is more consistent.
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Date: 2006-10-26 04:04 am (UTC)And I never said I'd "easily" get over my dog being eaten by a coyote. In fact, I'd be rather disraught. I'd probably take tranquilizers and stay in bed for a few days and eat many many many batches of brownies (or just brownie mix, I dont' know if I could get around to the baking part). I'd also probably get a puppy within a few months because thats about how long I've ever gone without a dog in my entire life. But kill the coyote? Or justify the wanton hunting of coyotes because I was stupid with my dog? No. Now, my neighbor's dog attacking my dog, I really dont' feel it's the dog's fault, per se, but the neighbor because he was really really reckless in training the dog. Therefore the dog relied a little too much on it's wolf instincts and went after it's much smaller "competitor" for territory and food. I'm good with training my dog(s), so they feel secure in territory and food and therefore arent' aggressive to other dogs, but that doesn't mean that they won't still go after things like gerbils. But get rid of them because they went after prey? Meh.
I'm not gonna get into the "humane-ness" (humanity?) of one way of killing over another, though it takes more bullets to kill a deer than most people expect. MUCH more "humane" to slit the animal's throat (a la kosher slaughter) than to shoot it. But what I don't understand is the logic that to avoid a few deer being killed on highways we must indescriminantly kill thousands, when it's WE who build the highways where THEY already were. To spare highway deer deaths, we shouldn't have highways, not more hunting. And there are other ways of keeping deer from crossing highways and making highway roadsides super attractive (oh wow! look at those stretches of wildflowers! and salt!).
And despite shedding each year, most deer species have increased size of antlers each breeding season, a visual way of representing whose top buck in the area. Exceptions, of course, but generally a ten pointer is older than a five or four pointer. Indeed, NYS hunting laws are specific to the points of a buck so that young bucks live and old bucks die.
Look, people hunt for sport and people hunt for food. Sitting in my garage right now is the carcass of a boar my step-dad's friend bagged last weekend (they're waiting til I'm gone so they can consume the pork without guilt). But to say, oh I hunt because it's ethically justified, thats bullshit. Not to say hunting is intrinsically "unethical", but that people feel the need to justify besides for sport or for food is an odd post-modern condition. People have been herding and hunting for literally tens of thousands of years, mostly for food though sport hunting for small game as training for food hunting for bigger game is a part of most hunting cultures. Hunting ISN"T a solution for ANY of the ethical dilemas posted by the guy or you (Ohio has really lax deer hunting laws but man oh man do they have a road kill problem - note the lack of barriers between forest and highway, though), but seriously, why the need to posit it as such? Thats my beef, or should I say, venison...
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Date: 2006-10-24 07:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-24 06:01 pm (UTC)also, please don't insult my cunt in such a way :)
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Date: 2006-10-24 09:53 pm (UTC)I suppose it depends entirely on your definition of P.C, just out of curiousity, how do you define it?
Also, no offense intended :p
:)
Date: 2006-10-25 07:48 pm (UTC)unless i'm sorely mistaken, in which case i apologize for being an ass, you're a heteronormative able bodied white guy, right? that's a whole lotta power going on.
in an overly simplified way, political correctness as in taking the time to be sensitive to other folks' own sensitivities regarding language and self-defining terminologies.
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Date: 2006-10-26 02:11 am (UTC)I view it less as that and more as treating minorities as though they're special flowers for simply being minorities, dont misinterpret that as racism, I hold nothing against minorities, Hell, I'm a scotsman living in australia, I've met two other scotspeople while living here, I dont want to be treated any differently than any other australian.
I'm Scottish by birth, I'm not sure which country you're from, I'll place a wild guess and say america, and go from there. In the UK, In general, theres a highly oppresive atmosphere of Political correctness, there are sayings which have become a taboo, things which make no sense, for example, there is a slang saying over in scotland that if you're poor, you're 'Skint', since the whole political correctness thing has started, it's now preffered that you say that you / they are 'fiscally challenged'.
There's been a very big move by people to look down on slang, and thats one aspect I dont like, I see slang as a culture of its own, slang is a form of language that grows with a society, it's a language within a language, a thing that most people of other societies wont understand unless they've been part of a community for a long time. This isn't mistreating them, nor is it being racist towards them, theres lots of slang I dont know, some is regional, some is national, nor would I like to learn it all.
Another aspect, that I mentioned earlier, is the simple 'better treatment' that minorities recieve, I cant comment on either the australian or american situation, but in Britain, immigrants, even illegal ones, are placed on a 'Housing list' with a much higher priority than regular residents, while this can be understandable (After all, it would be unfair to simply make them sleep on the streets), they are also given many other things, cars, fully furnished homes (As in fully furnished, Couch, Beds, Kitchen, mostly brand new stuff.) While I realise that this is not across the board for all immigrants, you must also realise this also applies to illegal immigrants as well, the vast majority do not get deported.
I do understand that the reason britain is such an attractive place for these people is because it will provide safety for them, and for that, they are welcome, but at the same time, there is a hypocracy in the way the government treat's its current residents, if you are a resident then you have to wait at the minimum of three years on the housing list to be able to get a government subsidised home, usually it will be an old home, with very little in the way of furnishings, and you can go laugh yourself down a creek if you want a free car.
"in an overly simplified way, political correctness as in taking the time to be sensitive to other folks' own sensitivities regarding language and self-defining terminologies."
I view political correction less as this, and more as the 'Modernisation' of a people, while the scottish people as a whole are not exactly a third world country, we do have our own way of speaking that can seem incredibly confusing.
I agree with you in principle, that Political correctness SHOULD be about taking the time to be sensitive to other folks' own sensitivies, in the case of the UK, it's not, and again, I cant comment regarding the state of the US or anywhere else, because I simply have no experience regarding these countries.
One final thing, my argument may appear flawed, mainly because I just woke up a half hour ago (^^;; forgive me, I sleep poorly) so bear this in mind when you rip it apart, which I have no doubt you will :)
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Date: 2006-10-29 05:47 pm (UTC)I view it less as that and more as treating minorities as though they're special flowers for simply being minorities,
and, in part, you're right, "minorities" shouldn't receive special treatment. nobody should be followed by police or security because they aren't of the "majority norm". nobody should have to work twice as hard to prove themselves to anybody for the same reason either. no human being is illegal. and tbe contrast between immigrants and "regular" people speaks volumes of your mindset.
you whine about the "perks" immigrants, legal or not, get. "these people", as you so eloquently refer to them, so what? i'll take your word for it that it's as glamorous as you make them out to be. if they're anywhere near as "glamourous" as what NYC provides to folks, documented, native-born, or otherwise, i'd like to see you survive just one week living in similar standard conditions.
unfortunately, i really don't know that i can blame a lack of sleep on the "othering" that is rampant in your reply. thank you at least for not trying to say that scotland/britain/australia doesn't have issues with race. and i'm still not getting the logic in your reluctance to make the extra efort.
if your intereseted in it
original whie privilege listing
is an adequat starter
and
race changers
is good for more on-going.
:)
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Date: 2006-10-30 05:40 am (UTC)I wasn't trying to paint the minorities of the UK's life as glamorous, far from it, they've escaped the social prejudice of one country for the social prejudice of another, I personally hold no prejudice, people are people, They seek a better life for themselves, and they have that right, just like everyone else.
As for your comments regarding NYC, again, I cant comment, I've never been there, never been to the states at all. Every country on earth has an issue with race, sexuality, and religion, any country that says they dont is talking out of their arse.
"and, in part, you're right, "minorities" shouldn't receive special treatment. nobody should be followed by police or security because they aren't of the "majority norm". nobody should have to work twice as hard to prove themselves to anybody for the same reason either. no human being is illegal. and tbe contrast between immigrants and "regular" people speaks volumes of your mindset."
I agree, no one should, and I believe I should clarify my point, the things I posted above are things that many people in the UK actually believe, that immigrants to the country are worth less than Nationals born there, and I think I should clarify my position (my own) again for you so you dont get the wrong impression.
I'm not a racist person, in my point of view, the colour of your skin, your sexuality, your religion, these dont mean very much, to me, you are a person, a unique and beautiful butterfly. Just like everyone else.
I personally think that discrimination in all forms is bullshit, whether you are caucasian, asian, african american, australian, brazillian, gay, bisexual, lesbian, christian, presbyterian, mormon, or even from mars, I will endeavour to treat you with respect. With the exception of scientologists, who're totally crazy ;)
I myself am an immigrant to a foreign country, so to hold some sort of 'IMMIGRANTS ARE WORTH LESS THAN OTHER PEOPLE' opinion is entirely hypocritical of me. I endeavour to be open minded, I'm White, I'm non-religious, I rarely drink, I dont smoke, I dont do drugs, if you where a black jewish lesbian stripper, I would treat you with respect and curiousity, the same as I would treat a white collar'd office working urban person.
I'll admit, I'm not completely free of my own personal prejudice, no ones perfect, I personally try to steer clear of religious fanatics because they have very little in the way of logic, and many only have the goal of conversion to their religion, but I respect that they have chosen that as their religion, and they're welcome to it.
I dont want my words to make you think any less of me, I like to think I'm a good guy, a person who if treated with respect, will reciprocate that respect, and whom is easygoing. I dont hold prejudice based on any of the things mentioned above, but now I feel as though I'm simply repeating things, so I'll sign off now.
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Date: 2006-10-31 05:57 am (UTC)you're white + you live in a white-majority country = you're racist. if for no other reason than the fact you are inherently benefited by the colour of your skin. (which, yes, means i fall into that category as well.) you can either deny it and continue in it or work to, at the very least, change and challenbe yourself.
I'm not a racist person, in my point of view, the colour of your skin, your sexuality, your religion, these dont mean very much, to me, you are a person, a unique and beautiful butterfly. Just like everyone else.
sounds an awful lot like you're saying "but i'm colourblind". and, well, reality doesn't work that way. being colourblind means denying a person's reality, current and past experiences, heritage, culture, etc. that's not fair to you or those you're (not) seeing.
so, yes, discrimination is bullshit. but it happens. and it happens to folks who "benefit" from "political correctness" far more often than said folks either a_receive "special perks" or b_"benefit from political correctness"
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Date: 2006-10-25 07:52 pm (UTC)he seems to be more all ass bugs all the time. it's not really for him or anyone to judge or tell others how to self-identify, just because it's easier or more convenient or whatever.
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