Lawrence, I completely understand your point. However, it's all about how you define "political correctness." My definition ONLY INCLUDES incidents such as the smell-handicapped dude and people who want to sue McDonald's b/c they're fat. I would tell smell dude to wear and mask and get over it. I would tell the McDonald's people to use some self-restraint and stop feeding their asses McDonald's.
This society is such that anything goes b/c NO ONE should be offended or left out of ANYTHING. Well, guess what, we have people with lawsuits against their schools b/c losing in a game of volleyball during gym period made them feel inferior. If there was a giant hand that could go across the country in one swoop and pimp slap these people...and bring them to their senses...that would be great.
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Originally posted by Divine Nine
And you are wrong about political correctness. Political correctness was created as a convenient way to discredit all those who attempted to empower themselves, by pointing out the ridiculous. So the Cherokee who wanted to define himself as a Native American and a hippee from California who decides he is "smell-handicapped" and therefore want everyone to not wear perfume, are lumped together to invalidate both. Are the arguments the same? Of course not. But "political correctness" has become an Orwellian term that quite successful defined an argument, yet meant nothing in itself.
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