| Politically correctness Posted: 2/16/2006 8:40:15 PM |
From South Park I've learned that all black people have a bass guitar in the basement and can play it without a lesson, that jews all have a bag of gold around their necks, that the Japanese are secretly plotting to take over the US through brainwashing kids, that Queer Eye is a plot to take over by crab people. Don't forget that Canadians have flapping heads and beady eyes. As well, the Canadian Armed Forces utilize hockey sticks and chainsaws. | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/16/2006 8:54:20 PM | "So you support racist bigots for president grog?"
You are not even in the game, are you? If you need to be spoon-fed everything, there's really not much hope for you understanding any sort of subtle humour.  | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/17/2006 6:25:56 AM | My experience is that most people ****ing about political correctness are really ****ing about it not being their type of political correctness.
Most of them, if Tail Gunner Joe was still around, would be going "McCarthy Rawks! Death to Liberal Scumbags!"
"Long live freedom and damn the ideologies," says I. | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/17/2006 6:27:24 AM | Grrr. Censors
I used a five letter word for a female dog in the post above. | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/18/2006 10:22:30 AM | 1 of my favorite movies of all time is "Blazing Saddles" I doubt that it would be possible to make this movie today due to the small minded, politically correct sensitivities that now exist. What these narrow minded, yet well intentioned, preachers of political correctness aren't capable of understanding is: This movie a comedy, which depicted several racial and ethnic stereotypes, was not promoting these stereotypes, just simply pointing out that they existed, the movie was even making fun of the small-mindedness of the people who maintained these stereotypes. Perhaps somebody should make a movie today that makes fun of the narrow-mindedness of the politically-correct people who are offended at any attempt of humor. | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/18/2006 3:17:41 PM | | By a curious coincidence you posted this the same day my daughters put in the DVD Team America - World Police. What was it you were saying about not being able to make a movie like Blazing Saddles? | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/19/2006 9:27:20 AM | | sorry for the double post, I'd like to add : regarding Team America, it does seem that cartoons seem to be exempt from some of the current trend of political correctness which is targeted at movies and telivision today. I think that this is partly the reason for the success of tv shows such as Family Guy, and South Park. The Simpsons is the longest running current sitcom by years. Earlier posts in this thread mentioned South Park, it's sad that if we want to make fun of small-minded predjudices in our society, we must do it through an 8 year old fat kid in a cartoon, because a live actor is not allowed to touch the same topics. | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/19/2006 2:03:45 PM | I think it's more for the reason that essentially, the sitcom as a TV form is DEAD!! The sitcom itself is so 70's and 80's. It's very difficult for a sitcom to be seing as edgy.
Racism too is no longer edgy. Archie Bunker existed at a time of transition when his viewpoint was getting "left behind". Now, 30 years later, there is no longer an excuse for a guy like Archie Bunker. It's no longer funny, just sad.
It's only funny when Racism is blatantly belittled like on South Park/Team America. They remind us that these viewpoints still exist without embracing the Racist. | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/19/2006 2:27:03 PM | | Seinfeld was able to squeeze some laughs out of racism as I recall - the white supremacist whose car Jerry and George grabbed, anti-dentite, and others - but I think you're right, it's just not funny anymore. Part of it was the shock, but remember a flushing toilet was considered edgy back then. | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/20/2006 7:04:04 PM | So I guess this test wouldn't fly....
(taken from http://www.snopes.com/humor/question/mathtest.htm)
City of Los Angeles High School Math Proficiency Exam Name:__________________________ Gang:__________________________
1. Johnny has an AK-47 with an 80-round clip. If he misses 6 out of 10 shots and shoots 13 times at each drive-by shooting, how many drive-by shootings can he attempt before he has to reload?
2. Jose has 2 ounces of cocaine and he sells an 8-ball to Jackson for $320 and 2 grams to Billy for $85 per gram. What is the street value of the balance of the cocaine if he doesn't cut it?
3. Rufus is pimping for three girls. If the price is $65 for each trick, how many tricks will each girl have to turn so Rufus can pay for his $800-per-day crack habit?
4. Jarone want to cut his 1/2 pound of heroin to make 20% more profit. How many ounces of cut will he need?
5. Willie gets $200 for stealing a BMW, $50 for a Chevy, and $100 for a 4X4. If he has stolen 2 BMWs, 3 4X4s, how many Chevies will he have to steal to make $800?
6. Raoul is in prison for 6 years for murder. He got $10,000 for the hit. If his common law wife is spending $100 per month, how much money will be left when he gets out of prison and how many years will he get for killing the **** that spent his money?
7. If the average spray can covers 22 square feet and the average letter is 3 square feet, how many letters can a tagger spray with 3 cans of paint?
8. Hector knocked up 6 girls in his gang. There are 27 girls in the gang. What percentage of the girls in the gang has Hector knocked up?
9. Thelma can cook dinner for her 16 children for $7.50 per night. She gets $234 a month welfare for each child. If her $325 per month rent goes up 15%, how many more children should she have to keep up with her expenses?
10. Salvador was arrested for dealing crack and his bail was set at $25,000. If he pays a bail bondsman 12% and returns to Mexico, how much money will he lose by jumping bail? | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/20/2006 7:06:27 PM | 'Fraid not. Just not funny. edit: Funny is one of those things that you can only tell if something is or isn't. That's just smug, not shocking or humorous. Springtime for Hitler is still funny cause it's still taboo. This is just one of those things put out not for laughs, but to make white Republicans feel better than someone else. Did it work? | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/20/2006 7:15:29 PM | Well I'm sure you'll enjoy the opposing "view".....scroll down to the incarcerated discount link at the bottom
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/21/2006 6:43:03 AM | Look, some good comedy writers can take on the monster and get away with it.
There was an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm ( GREAT show , btw) where Larry David has a party, and hears there will be " a survivor" at it. He goes and invites one of his relatives - who survived the camps.
It turns out " the survivor" is a guy from... "Survivor" .
The argument at the dinner table is a classic, where the two compare their "survivor stories" .
COLBY: We had very little rations, no snacks. SOLLY: Snacks, what are you talking snacks? We didn't eat, sometimes for a week, for a month.... COLBY: Have you even seen the show? SOLLY: Did you ever see our show? It was called the Holocaust!
With civility out the window, each of them shouts, "I'm a survivor!" "I'm a survivor!"
Not too many people have the comedic writer's chops to pull that off, but it shows what can be done with talent.
Team America was a good attempt, but comparing it to a "Blazing Saddles" is a no go. It had it's moments, but the overall film fell a little flat imho. I thought it would be a lot worse than it was, however. | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/21/2006 7:11:59 PM |
Don't know, never seen "Team America - World Police" you should then; it pales in comparison to Blazzing Saddles - which is a good movie. It mocks everything from blabbering celebrities to obsessive partiosim.
Go on google and look for Team America quotes. Dirka dirka! | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 2/21/2006 7:20:00 PM |
Team America was a good attempt, but comparing it to a "Blazing Saddles" is a no go. It had it's moments, but the overall film fell a little flat imho. I thought it would be a lot worse than it was, however.
Matt and Trey are funny, but they dont know when to stop repeating the same joke over and over. *shrugs* | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 3/8/2006 11:16:01 AM | PC is simple in the US...if your an average hetrosexual, white male, who owns a gun, your wrong!
And you should be HATED.
Being PC is simply a hate crime. | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 3/10/2006 9:24:50 AM |
The Origins of Political Correctness
In 1923 in Germany, a think-tank is established that takes on the role of translating Marxism from economic into cultural terms, that creates Political Correctness as we know it today, and essentially it has created the basis for it by the end of the 1930s. This comes about because the very wealthy young son of a millionaire German trader by the name of Felix Weil has become a Marxist and has lots of money to spend. He is disturbed by the divisions among the Marxists, so he sponsors something called the First Marxist Work Week, where he brings Lukacs and many of the other key German ideologues together for a week, working on the differences of Marxism.
And he says, "What we need is a think-tank." (Washington is full of think tanks and we think of them as very modern. In fact they go all the way back to the 1930's.) He endows an institute, associated with Frankfurt University, established in 1923, that was originally supposed to be known as the Institute for Marxism. But the people behind it decided at the beginning that it was not to their advantage to be openly identified as Marxist. The last thing Political Correctness wants is for people to figure out it’s a form of Marxism. So instead they decide to name it the Institute for Social Research.
Likewise America today is in the throws of the most dangerous transformation in its history. We are becoming a radical, ideological state, a country with an official state ideology enforced by the power of the state. In "hate crimes" we now have people serving jail sentences for political thoughts. And Congress is now moving to expand that category ever further. Affirmative action is part of it. The terror against anyone who dissents from Political Correctness on campus is also part of it. It’s exactly what we have seen happen in Russia, in Germany, in Italy, in China, and now it’s coming here. And most don’t recognize it because we call it Political Correctness and laugh it off. Unfortunately few realize that it’s not funny, it’s here, it’s growing and it will eventually destroy, as it seeks to destroy, everything that we have ever defined as our freedom and our culture. Political Correctness is a tyranny that must be aggressively exposed. | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 3/10/2006 5:14:49 PM |
PC is simple in the US...if your an average hetrosexual, white male, who owns a gun, your wrong!
And you should be HATED.
Being PC is simply a hate crime.
There's a saying that goes a little like this: "The only difference between the saved and the fallen is adequate temptation."
So if we use your logic, it's equally uncool in your book for conservatives to bash liberals by saying things like "Liberals are evil" or saying having some liberal beliefs is akin to mental illness?
Or is it just denial about having succumged to 'adequate temptation'?
-Kerry O. | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 5/26/2006 12:28:12 PM | | i hate politicly correctness the uk is rife with it. bacchus your right about the story on the christmas lights thing and theres a lot of other insane stuff what the government and councils have told us we can and cant do it makes me furious we cant have any traditional white/christian things going on anymore in case we offend the huge number of asylum seekers entering our country it makes me sick that we have to disregard our beliefs religion and culture just to please others | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 5/26/2006 12:38:59 PM | I LOVE Politically Incorrect humor. That is why we have the Family Guy and American Dad. Those are caricatures of people that we can all laugh at. They are buffoons that will never be taken seriously.
Who is dumber, or the bigger idiot: the buffoon on the TV or the idiot complaining about the buffoon on TV (NAACP etc.).
Ryan the dog rules!!!
wishes the USA was more like Swtzerland--the gentleman gun owner laws.. all persons who are good upstanding citzens: Have no felonies. No mental illnesses (see parathesis below) Do not belong to any terrorist group (KKK, Neo Nazi's, Al Qaeda, etc.)
Should OWN at LEAST 1 hand gun, at LEAST 1 assault rifle. The citizens of that nuetral eurpean country double up as support to the militarya nd the police....ie. like a MILITIA as ORIGINALLY intended in this country. | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 5/27/2006 5:18:21 PM |
I like big cars, big boats, big motorcycles, big houses and big campfires.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.
Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.
I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts!
I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.
I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America.
Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White entertainment Television, or Miss White America and see what happens. Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.
I have the right NOT to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off. When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the law of statistics.
I know what sex is, and there are not varying degrees of it. If I received sex from one of the subordinates in my office, it wouldn't be a private matter or my personal business. I would be "FIRED" immediately!
I believe that if you are selling me a milk shake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen you should have to speak English!
My father and grandfather shouldn't have to die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours. I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.
I feel much safer letting a machine with no political affiliation recount votes when needed. I know what the definition of lying is.
I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business. We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document and open to their interpretations.
I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.
I know wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television, and that doesn't stop you from watching them.
I believe a self-righteous liberal or conservative with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.
I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better and put your name on the building. Ask your buddy that invented the Internet to help you.
It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid and smack their little ass when necessary and say "NO."
I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And . . . Please stay home until that new lip ring heals, I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me french fries!
I am sick of "Political Correctness" and of all the suck ups that go along with it. I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa, so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else.
And if you don't like my point of view, tough! - Andy Rooney
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| Politically correctness Posted: 5/28/2006 8:06:04 AM | | To me, political correctness is a bunch of bunk. Until everyone has to be just as correct as the next person, it is just another way to discriminate against straight "white" people, as they are the only ones who can't freely express themselves. People like Jessie Jackson, and all those who want us to adopt spanish yada yada, are FAR from even attempting to be "correct". | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 5/31/2006 1:02:46 PM | To me, political correctness is a bunch of bunk. Until everyone has to be just as correct as the next person, it is just another way to discriminate against straight "white" people, as they are the only ones who can't freely express themselves. People like Jessie Jackson, and all those who want us to adopt spanish yada yada, are FAR from even attempting to be "correct". ======== Agree. America was founded by an English speaking people, and so the official language must be English. Heck, even in India, land of over a hunded launguages, I beleive they adopted English as a common language so that they can communicate...that is what I heard.
If companies voluntarily put info on packages in multiple languages, then it is thier perogative.
But like our European cousins, we must also become multiligual, ie. voluntarily. | |
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| Politically correctness Posted: 5/31/2006 8:33:53 PM | OP:
Have you seen "Team America"?
As for anything "Politically Correct", I have no use for it or the morons that perpetrate it. | |
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