Political correctness??

[Red|-|orseman]

i just wanna know your feelings on PC, do you actually care? do you get offended when some one makes a joke about black/white/red/yellow/ pink and purple polka dot people? for example ****a (****er if you like), to me ( and most of the people i know) a ****a is a person of any colour who talks like a rapper, who dresses like one and acts like they have half a brain. now black people call other black people ****as, chris rock does stand up comedy about ****as (very funny btw) but if i were to call a black man a ****a for any reason, i would most likley be castrated and hung out to dry for being rascist. i am not a racsist as i hate every creed colour and race exactly the same amount, more so in the case of australians, but thats just me being a Kiwi :). what do you think?

[siddy]

paragraphs are your friend.

every once in a while someone gets fed up with our PC world and it comes up on the forums. I think it would be best to just read one of those threads, or make a more coherant argument.

As far as PC goes...as long as saying/doing something doesn't really offend someone, that's fine. the thing that pisses me off is 'we might offend this minority if we say this'. They can speak for themselves if they actually are offended by somethign

[Lord Kelvin]

Using slang for a minority (ie. the n-word for African-Americans) IMO is a bad thing, assuming it's offensive, but that goes without saying. If it's non-offensive (ie. black is less of a mouthful than African-American), then I don't really care.

[Stig]

I've never seen a need for Political Correctness. Just seems like it gets in the way of things. Mostly me trying to tell jokes I saw on the TV.
"OMG YOU SAID ****ER."
"I saw it on Chappelle Show! Mercy! Mercy!"
Whatever.

Testing the Censor...
Jew.
Okay, it's always freaked me out when some server has Jew on their Censor list. It's never made sense to me why you'd want to do that.

but thats just me being a Kiwi
Brown and furry on the outside but green and slimy on the inside? What?

[Lord Kelvin]

Does this forum even run a censor script? I've never seen a censor in my three years of posting, unless it was a mod that edited it.

[Kak]

I have a very large interest and respect in all races and cultures and countries and languages.

But I still enjoy jokes of all kinds, including racist jokes. But that's mainly because I find almost everything funny. I have a big smile on my face while reading these forums and laugh at almost everything I read that might not even be considered funny to someone else. Yes I know I'm not normal and that's different from everyone else here because everyone I ask say they rarely laugh at stuff or find things funny. But I'm just weird like that.

And when I talk out loud about serious stuff I say African-American and Hispanic-American and stuff like that.

[Stig]

Does this forum even run a censor script? I've never seen a censor in my three years of posting, unless it was a mod that edited it.
Type the N-word while posting and hit preview. Unless a mod can change what you're trying to say before you can even post it, this forum has a censor running.

[Luguberos]

I don't truely care, but i don't act recklessly either. At work, i've heard comments like "A Day without a Mexican? (the title of a movie), wouldn't that be great" or "it was pretty good for a black movie", and i felt only a little sad that folks see things that way. On the other hand, when i hear racism and political incorrectness, not as someone's weltansicht, but for the sake of mere fun, i can laugh my heart out. It all depends on where it's coming from.

[GrosPoisson]

I think most of it's silly bullshit that petty assholes have foisted on to the rest of us. In my entire life, I have never been referred to as "Asian-American" once, and I don't really care one way or the other. There's also a whole bunch of grabass with the term "Oriental." Apparently, if you're an uptight asshole who is Asian you're supposed to freak out and make the racially insensitive person call you "Asian-American," but I never got that particular memo.

Honestly, I don't care. Call me Oriental if it floats your boat. I'm used to people trying to guess which particular Asian ethnicity all the time, so it's not that big of a deal.

[GoatChomper]

what do you think?
I think you're pushing it knowingly.

CERRADO.