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Political correctness
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20 Dec 2007 Thu 06:22 pm |
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Math Illiterates Mutual Admirers Club!
I want to join...watch this!
If a train were traveling 60 km North at 45 miles an hour and a car were driving on the highway at 80 km at a 45 degree angle toward the same destination. If they both left at the same time who would arrive first?
I DON'T KNOW! Were there any mountains in between? Did the train start on time? Is it in Turkey because then the train might have left late and the guy in the car is speeding like crazy and passing without regard to oncoming traffic... It has something to do with a triangle and a rule about the sides. OH NO...I don't even know where to start.
OK...do I qualify to be a member?
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20 Dec 2007 Thu 06:48 pm |
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What are my options? I am also bad at math in Turkish as well!
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20 Dec 2007 Thu 06:51 pm |
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Quoting Badiabdancer74: What are my options? I am also bad at math in Turkish as well! |
Your main option, that I highly recommend, is to take math, join my Math Geniuses Club and stop applauding those math illiterates!  How's that? 
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20 Dec 2007 Thu 07:34 pm |
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Quoting Badiabdancer74: Math Illiterates Mutual Admirers Club!
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yes?
Quoting Badiabdancer74:
I want to join...watch this!
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 hmmmm....
Quoting Badiabdancer74:
OH NO...I don't even know where to start.
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Quoting Badiabdancer74:
OK...do I qualify to be a member? |
you automatically qualify, but...
theres one condition.
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10 Jul 2008 Thu 10:59 am |
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I recently saw America's Next Top Model (don't ask - ok) and got a bit uncomfortable hearing one of the contestants say "I am a proud black woman" That got me thinking. Would it be ok if I said "I am a proud white woman" on tv? Or is political correctness double standards? Would saying "I am a woman and I'm proud of that" be treated the same way as "I am a man and I'm proud of that?"
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10 Jul 2008 Thu 08:09 pm |
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Quoting Daydreamer: I recently saw America's Next Top Model (don't ask - ok) and got a bit uncomfortable hearing one of the contestants say "I am a proud black woman" That got me thinking. Would it be ok if I said "I am a proud white woman" on tv? Or is political correctness double standards? Would saying "I am a woman and I'm proud of that" be treated the same way as "I am a man and I'm proud of that?" |
Daydreamer if you got on American TV and called yourself a proud white woman, you would be labeled a racist. The ACLU would boycott the television station and you would be the talk of every news program on CNN and Fox news. In other words, you would be more famous than America's top model AND you could keep your IQ Scores! 
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10 Jul 2008 Thu 09:57 pm |
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Quoting Daydreamer: I recently saw America's Next Top Model (don't ask - ok) and got a bit uncomfortable hearing one of the contestants say 'I am a proud black woman' That got me thinking. Would it be ok if I said 'I am a proud white woman' on tv? Or is political correctness double standards? Would saying 'I am a woman and I'm proud of that' be treated the same way as 'I am a man and I'm proud of that?' |
Actually I don't understand the pride thing at all. We are what we are, and hopefully, we try to make the best of what we are.
Isn't pride one of the big seven?
'Pride Pride
In almost every list pride (or hubris or vanity) is considered the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins, and indeed the ultimate source from which the others arise. It is identified as a desire to be more important or attractive than others, failing to give compliments to others though they may be deserving of them, and excessive love of self (especially holding self out of proper position toward God). Dante's definition was 'love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor.' In Jacob Bidermann's medieval miracle play, Cenodoxus, pride is the deadliest of all the sins and leads directly to the damnation of the titulary famed Parisian doctor. In perhaps the best-known example, the story of Lucifer, pride (his desire to compete with God) was what caused his fall from Heaven, and his resultant transformation into Satan. Vanity and narcissism are prime examples of this sin. In Dante's Divine Comedy, the penitent were forced to walk with stone slabs bearing down on their backs in order to induce feelings of humility.'
7 Deadly Sins
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11 Jul 2008 Fri 11:43 am |
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Alameda, I am an atheist so the notion of 7 deadly sins is just a lot of crap to me.
Elisabeth, you're right. Now, how fair is it that black people can be proud of their roots and white cannot? Sorry, I come from a country without a long history of slavery so this issue is incomprehensible to me.
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11 Jul 2008 Fri 12:27 pm |
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Quoting Daydreamer: Alameda, I am an atheist so the notion of 7 deadly sins is just a lot of crap to me.
Elisabeth, you're right. Now, how fair is it that black people can be proud of their roots and white cannot? Sorry, I come from a country without a long history of slavery so this issue is incomprehensible to me. |
Quoting Daydreamer: I recently saw America's Next Top Model (don't ask - ok) and got a bit uncomfortable hearing one of the contestants say "I am a proud black woman" That got me thinking. Would it be ok if I said "I am a proud white woman" on tv? Or is political correctness double standards? Would saying "I am a woman and I'm proud of that" be treated the same way as "I am a man and I'm proud of that?" |
+10000000000000000000000000
Absolutely love your posts DD
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