http://www.google.com/images?q=political+correctness&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&rlz=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=gXzdTO_HLaGKnAer_ZzXDw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CDoQsAQwAg

The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook:
http://www.amazon.com/Official-Politically-Correct-Dictionary-Handbook/dp/0679749446

Thanks Roy! They were good for some giggles from me.

Awesome. Thanks!

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The knuckleheads at Fox News, especially Sean Hannity and Brian Kilmeade, are a constant stream of political correctness. Of their better P.C. expressions is "homicide bomber" instead of "suicide bomber." While telling the audience that a suicide bomber killed x number of people tells them what they need to know, that term is insufficiently judgmental of the killer. Therefore, Fox prefers to use "homicide bomber" even though it conveys less of the relevant information.

Fox, the bastion of political correctness?!
Who'd have guessed?

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I have found that in the real world PC is something that no one pays any attention to. I never have and neither did any of the people I worked with who were, by their own admission, a rather rough bunch..

The company I worked for had us go to the sex-ed classes where we basically said we would sign anything if we could just go back to work.

We would, if the subject came up, tell new people that being PC was a luxury we could not afford since we worked with life and death situations and seconds counted. We would tell them that we take large steps and if they could not keep up we would all know it soon enough.

We would clean up our act when dealing with the press or civil authorities, but outside of that we had work to do and if your feeling were easily hurt then there was little we could do for you.

This whole PC thing strikes me as some sort of Boogyman that people toss out when they have no real solution to a problem, as in "I would deal with it but I cannot without being PC and that is hard." We had an Engineer once that was terrible and we were afraid she was going to get someone killed. We whined about it to the higher ups and they started talking about how hard it was to bring this subject up to her, so one of the guys in the meeting just opened the door and yelled down the hall, "If you screw up again it is going to get someone killed!"

She transferred to Crude Purchasing and we never saw her again.

Guess you can only post in this thread if you agree with whunter.

So far two of my posts have been deleted.

Way to stay open minded.

Your turning this forum into a useless joke.

Keep up the good work and you will drive everyone away that does not agree with you.

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RichC,
That is how we all learn. Just like mice running through a maze. We keep bumping our heads on dead ends. Sooner or later we figure it out, and stop bumping our heads.

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I've found that it depends on the job/occupation/career/whatever, and also the area of the country/world you're in, as to whether PC is generally ignored, or observed to an annoying degree.

Even in the military, my last few years in the mid 90's, I saw people's careers ruined because one or more of their superiors demanded everyone under them be PC to some degree. I saw one young noncom wrote up for sexual harassment by a female lieutenant, because he noticed her a few steps behind him and held the door open for her when entering a building. Thankfully, the Squadron XO dismissed the charges out of hand, and gave the lieutenant a lecture on what the Navy considered "sexual harassment" to actually mean. But with that incident on his record, even with the charges being dismissed, the young noncom's career was essentially over - he'd never be able to rise above a certain rank, where his record would be in front of a review board to judge his fitness to be promoted.

OTOH, on board the sub, once the hatches were closed and we were underwater, all BS such as being PC went by the wayside and we concentrated on doing the job at hand, and getting back to port safely at the end of our patrol.

For the most part, I've found PC to be nothing more than a convenient excuse, for control freaks and those with a superiority complex, to lecture those around them on how to conduct their lives - as if the concept of PC gave them the right to walk up to a total stranger and lecture them on their personal habits.

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It's interesting how the right can always come up with lots of absurd posters and cartoons. I guess it's because of the enormous archives of forwarded emails they all have stashed.

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retmil...

I think that would sum up my take on this as well. We were a tight group in a highly secured area where we ran pipeline systems and oversaw refinery operations. Outsiders often said we were like those in a Submarine, but we would point out that no one was shooting at us so there was at least one difference.

When dealing with the press we had to be short, to the point and put a check on the gallows humor. When I watched the BP chief speaking on TV during the Gulf spill I knew he was a short timer since his "I want my life back" comment was just too much. Our personal lives, as opposed to our mortal lives, were put on hold during an emergency. Tony should have given the same impression.

By the way... I just finished reading 'Blind Man's Bluff' that an old Submariner loaned me. If people think the movies make Submarine life look hard they should read that book. It will give them a whole new respect for the Silent Service.

Not really. It's because the right has the ABILITY to LAUGH AT ITSELF when it does wrong and LAUGH EVEN HARDER WHEN IT DOES WRONG AND ADMITS IT.

Hell, we'll even take pictures and make big, freakin' posters so that no one misses the punchline...except those on the left, or the progressive thinkers.

Those folks will criticize everything NOT to THEIR LIKING and even "eat their own" if the joke is "too non-PC" for the "Uppitties" to tolerate.

But in the mean time, you have fun at the kiddie-table...those jokes have already passed the test of time...there CAN'T BE ANYTHING WRONG WITH KNOCK-KNOCK JOKES...

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The right has admitted to a mistake? Apparently they are no longer paying any attention to Karl Rove who advises his clients to never admit to any mistake.

During Bush's time in office he admitted to one mistake. He also did not laugh about it at the time.

Rush Limbaugh makes 'mistakes' every hour or so and never admits to any of them unless he is called upon it. Then he issues a correction a few weeks later just before he breaks for a commercial and he makes it so quickly he is almost impossible to understand. In any case you don't know what he is talking about since he will not describe what mistake he made than he is currently correcting.

I have heard right wingers that were caught in a mistake deny it, bluster about it, call upon others to prove it and threaten legal action against the people that caught the 'mistake' but I don't recall hearing any laughter out of them.