tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post6180306010556697374..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: Political CorrectnessLarry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-82909305699795031402007-02-20T16:15:00.000-07:002007-02-20T16:15:00.000-07:00Raising the bugaboo of political correctness is si...<I>Raising the bugaboo of political correctness is simply a license to be an ass.</I><BR/><BR/>No argument there!<BR/><BR/><I>There are people who take "PC" to ridiculous lengths, and those people should be mocked and scorned.</I><BR/><BR/>Perhaps. But, I live in California and I read a ton of liberal blogs, and I've never actually met or read <I>anyone</I> who takes PC to ridiculous lengths. And I suspect that if I ever did meet such a person, I would find many characteristics ahead of PC which deserved my mockery.<BR/><BR/><I>You don't apologize for inadvertently insulting people; you apologize for doing so deliberately.</I><BR/><BR/>I don't think you have this <I>quite</I> right.<BR/><BR/>"A gentleman never gives offense unintentionally."<BR/><BR/>I will apologize if I give offense unintentionally. I will apologize if I give offense intentionally only if my action was not justified.<BR/><BR/>I don't think J-P deserves to apologize for wanting to give offense. First, he's not making fun of an ineluctable characteristic, such as the color of a person's skin or their sexual identity.<BR/><BR/>He is intentionally giving offense only to the extent that a person would take offense by having his ridiculous superstitions deservedly mocked.Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-48333135142996585572007-02-20T15:38:00.000-07:002007-02-20T15:38:00.000-07:00Raising the bugaboo of political correctness is si...Raising the bugaboo of political correctness is simply a license to be an ass. There are people who take "PC" to ridiculous lengths, and those people should be mocked and scorned. But it's like the <I>Jyllands-Posten</I> cartoon controversy last year (which has raised its head again in France): J-P shouldn't have to apologize for publishing depictions of "the prophet" -- "Fuck your taboos" describes that reasonably well -- but for wanting to offend people. You don't apologize for inadvertently insulting people; you apologize for doing so deliberately. Why? Because you shouldn't be a dick to people unless they specifically demonstrate to you that they deserve it -- like this V lady has.James F. Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747033407956667363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-68964235486967222302007-02-20T11:27:00.000-07:002007-02-20T11:27:00.000-07:00Breathing deeply... I'm feeling much better. Thank...Breathing deeply... I'm feeling much better. Thanks.<BR/><BR/>It just annoys me how anyone who has successfully completed the sixth grade can fail to understand that unless you have utter contempt for 99.99% of black people (<I>cough Strom Thurmond cough</I>), it's stupid, hurtful and wrong to use a word that offends 99.99% of black people.<BR/><BR/>And this principle has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with any academic argument, however widespread, about whether to use "black" vs. "African-American".<BR/><BR/>This is not rocket science.<BR/><BR/>I supposed I really shouldn't be surprised. V makes it clear that she has utter contempt for anyone who disagrees with her in any way, she has utter contempt (as sycophants) for anyone who completely agrees with her, and she really has no concern whatsoever for the suffering of anyone outside her circle of immediate friends (and possibly not even <I>within</I> that circle).<BR/><BR/>I suppose every one of her tens of thousands of readers thinks to himself, "Heh, look how she's insulting every one of her readers <I>except me</I>!"<BR/><BR/>Perhaps it's a <I>plus</I> that even V herself, anonymous and with a readership too stupid to even understand Michelle Malkin, cannot come right out and say, "I just don't give a fuck if I offend every black person in the world;" even she has to clothe her utter indifference to the rest of humanity in the <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics" REL="nofollow">dog-whistle</A> of "political incorrectness".Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-21103987824148467432007-02-20T09:55:00.000-07:002007-02-20T09:55:00.000-07:00Take a deep breath, Larry. Okay, take another. And...Take a deep breath, Larry. Okay, take another. And another.<BR/><BR/>It's people like that Violent Acres that give fucktarded conservatives and fucktarded professors like at my grad school their ammunition.James F. Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747033407956667363noreply@blogger.com