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Political correctness
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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?" |
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Absolutely love your posts DD 
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11 Jul 2008 Fri 06:50 pm |
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Quoting Elisabeth: 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!  |
It's called double standards and the ACLU..  Here's a little quiz..I'm an employer based in the U.S. Just recently lost 10 million in premium and I'm forced to go through a RIF (Reduction in Force). I need to eliminate a Nurse. I compare everyones performance and longevity. I'm having to make a decision on two colleagues one to retain and one to eliminate. Both are women over the age of 40 perform relatively the same. One African American and the other white.. Who do you think I'm going to retain? GG will know this.. 
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12 Jul 2008 Sat 09:46 am |
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I think I can guess. There was a joke a while ago about an employer being forced to make somebody of his team redundant. His team were an African-American guy, a white woman and a white man. The African-American threatened to sue him for racism, the woman threatened to sue him for sexism so there seemed to be the only logical choice. As the boss turned towards the white guy he said "You know, I think I'm gay"
I'm really glad Europe is not yet as hypercorrect
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