Quote:
I'm still wondering what your definition of PC is? It is something that varies from person to person so I like to know where someone is coming from. Not wanting to argue or anything, I just find peoples different views fascinating and love learning about people.
I see PC used a lot and it almost always means something different for each person who uses it.
PC (Political Correctness) is bending the truth or softening it ridiculously, or outright lying, in order not to offend someone, even if what was said is not offensive in and of itself - for instance, a lot of people take offense if you shorten the term for an ethnicity to something more manageable, even though there's nothing insulting about it. Often, PC includes political views that people find "extreme" - that is, anything that takes a strong and consistent moral stance on any issue at all.
The problem being that anything resembling consistency and honesty is going to offend someone. Probably, I've offended a lot of people who now think I'm anti-American, for whatever reason. Thankfully, so far they've kept their mouths shut.
Several people on here are convinced I'm racist - and said so. Of course, I find ad hominems offensive, the difference between I and them being that I tend to beat people over the head with reality (which tends not to be very PC most of the time
) rather than returning the ad hominem when I'm offended. Which probably offends them.
I want to apologize for two things:
#1: Going off-topic (as usual).
#2: Writing a post that will probably just make you dumber than when you started.
It's not off topic....PC has become a big part of what is currently shaping group think, in America.....Just last week, I ran into a classic case....I was at King's Bay Naval Base, with a friend.We were installing some metal doorjambs into new construction.There was a sheetrock finisher, on a ladder, in the same room.I paid him no mind. In tons of saftey gear, everyone looks the same, from a distance.
Since I was about 14yr. old, I have spoken a smattering of Spanish. Living in Colorado, it has simply become part of my lexicon...I don't have to think about it...It just comes out.
Anyway, my friend and I were struggling to install this jamb, because the wall thickness was about 1/8" wider than the throat of the jamb...I'm kneeling on the floor, trying to get the bottom in, while my friend is on a ladder, struggling with the head...In the course of conversation, I said, "Que pasa? Que pasa, amigo?
I hear someone say to me, "That's not funny."
I look up, at the sheetrock finisher, who is on the ladder, in bewilderment, and said,"It wasn't meant to be funny."
I can only surmise that he assumed that I recognized him, as a Mexican, and was making fun of him.
What I wanted to say was, "I hope you carry a first aid kit, everywhere you go, because, with that thin skin, you are likely to bleed to death."
Of course, my friend and I, spent the rest of the day having a hoot over things, which weren't funny, in our best Speedy Gonzales voices.
