Political Correctness...

I have no idea in hell if there is already a thread about the totally absurd concept of political correctness, but this story just goes to show how damn stupid some people get.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/parents-outraged-over-teacher-removing-word-gay-deck-164802191.html

Really???

Are you saying the teacher was stupid, or the parents for objecting?

FYI the term "politically correct" is almost never used except as a bogeyman by the right wing.

Herr wrote:
Are you saying the teacher was stupid, or the parents for objecting?

FYI the term "politically correct" is almost never used except as a bogeyman by the right wing.

1) The former.
2) It is a concept contrived by the libtards to 'protect' us' thus allowing them to become the thought police.

Just put it in a bag of rice.

RatBastard wrote:

2) It is a concept contrived by the libtards to 'protect' us' thus allowing them to become the thought police.

Job creators

beetsnotbeats wrote:

RatBastard wrote:

2) It is a concept contrived by the libtards to 'protect' us' thus allowing them to become the thought police.

Job creators

The gummint paying people, no matter what for, is not job creation.

beetsnotbeats wrote:

RatBastard wrote:

2) It is a concept contrived by the libtards to 'protect' us' thus allowing them to become the thought police.

Job creators

pro-life

azaghal1981 wrote:

beetsnotbeats wrote:

RatBastard wrote:

2) It is a concept contrived by the libtards to 'protect' us' thus allowing them to become the thought police.

Job creators

pro-life

Or is that anti-choice?  Ain't words wonderful!  :)

But seriously folks, back to the OP.  Have we really gotten to the point in society that we are so afraid of words that we have to start changing the lyrics to songs?

Pretty sure liberals and conservatives alike would agree with you there.
But if you want to turn this into a liberal V. conservative thing, I would say that conservatives have the liberals beat as far as removing/changing/banning written/recorded work in order to "protect" the public.

The real problem here isn't the changing of the lyrics it's the mountain making out of a molehill due to 24/7 cable news, the internet newsophere and the idiots who opine via blogs and comments.  The amount of words and that are sure to be wasted over this will be staggering.  In the past it would have never gotten past the local news outlets, the anger would have subsided in a week and 1st and 2nd graders everywhere would still giggle at singing gay….

In the past it would not have been changed in order to be sure we don't offend anyone by using certain 'non-sensative' words.

oh right, because in the past books and record weren't burned, preachers didn't rail against the evils of rock and roll, lennon didn't say the Beatles were bigger than Jesus and the FBI didn't keep files on subversive rock musicians.. please censorship has been alive and well since the dawn of time….

;D

wml7 wrote:

;D

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who cares . . . just live your fucking life.  who cares what other people do or think.  i don't care anymore and god my life is sooooooooo much easier.  i can't believe i let other people get in my way and allowed their lives to control my life.  other people are put around you to distract you from what you should be doing. 

Not sure why I'm even bothering to chiming in here, but did you even read the article?  They didn't replace "gay" to make sure we didn't offend gays; they removed it because kids don't recognize that word to mean anything other than "homosexual".  In fact, they SANG the song as it was written before changing it:

"First- and second-graders would not stop giggling when they sang the word "gay.""

Imagine trying to sing that song to a room full kids cracking up because they think the guy is dressed up like Johnny Weir.  Sounds a lot less "we're afraid of offending everyone" than it is "let's stop these idiots from laughing so we can get on with our day."

There's a lot of over PC shit in this world…it shouldn't be hard to pick a real example to prove the war on Christmas.

RatBastard wrote:
I have no idea in hell if there is already a thread about the totally absurd concept of political correctness, but this story just goes to show how damn stupid some people get.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/parents-outraged-over-teacher-removing-word-gay-deck-164802191.html

Really???

;D

look at that crazy position johnny is in . . . how queer.  and look at that ass!

RatBastard wrote:

Herr wrote:
Are you saying the teacher was stupid, or the parents for objecting?

FYI the term "politically correct" is almost never used except as a bogeyman by the right wing.

1) The former.
2) It is a concept contrived by the libtards to 'protect' us' thus allowing them to become the thought police.

Besides apparently misunderstanding the article, and the term political correctness, Since you are using terms like "iibtards," you're clearly not of a sufficient intellectual stature to have this discussion.