[Willblake] I would go so far as to say that PC has actually diminished our respect for others.
[Arlo] How so? Are mentally-handicapped children treated worse, or with resentment, because we no longer call them "retards"? [Willblake] I believe he was using the non-PC attitude of anti-Christianity as an example of where those PC folk talk out of both sides of their mouths. [Arlo] Sure, just as those who call anyone who speaks against anything America does traitors and enemies of liberty, that's where folk like Platt succomb to talking out of both sides of his mouth. [Willblake] It' has just created a bunch of whining individuals... [Arlo] Who's whining? The kids who are no longer called "retards", or the people who wish they still could call them that? [Willblake] How can the manipulation of others involve respect? [Arlo] Do you respect mentally-challenged kids any less since you have "manipulated" or forced into not calling them "retards"? [Willblake] The tool is used by both sides to a point which drives me nuts... [Arlo] At least you see it is wielded by both sides. The way I see it is that social beings have a certain degree of civility and safety they should expect in the social realm. I wouldn't want to be harassed as a "cracker", nor would I imagine a parent wants their mentally-challenged kid referred to a "retard" when they are out at a restaurant. I bet a lot of blacks are pretty happy they don't hear "nigger" yelled at them when they are walking down the street too. And if those "manipulations" rifle the ilk of small-minded jerks who feel it is their god-given "right" to yell "nigger" or "retard" and harass those less-superior than themselves, well I personally have no sympathy for that. Then there is the comic side, such as renaming garbagemen "sanitation engineers". I skip by this because its irrelevant. People can be called what they want to be called. Its no skin of my back to say "sanitation engineer". There is also the insidious political uses like "War on Terror" or "Patriot Act" of which Orwell would also be quite proud. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
