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Chat => General => Topic started by: Forth Bridges on January 19, 2006, 07:49:31 pm

Title: ARe you PC?
Post by: Forth Bridges on January 19, 2006, 07:49:31 pm

Pc

policaty corretness

it a joke, bonkers

how many can yuo come up with!

SMufly come up with teh first one

 " 'portion control'. Saying 'I have trouble with portion control' sounds so much better than 'I can't stop shovelling food down my gob'! 2

can yuo think of any other?

Title: ARe you PC?
Post by: smurfboy on January 19, 2006, 07:58:53 pm

'Vertically challenged' = dwarf/midget

'Dimensionally challenged' = fat bastard

Reminds me of the personal ads - 'bubbly personality', meaning 'at least a Size 16'!

Title: ARe you PC?
Post by: oldspice on January 19, 2006, 08:04:28 pm

wHAT'S WRONG WITH BEING A SIZE 16!!!!!!

Title: ARe you PC?
Post by: oldspice on January 19, 2006, 08:07:37 pm

A lot of so-called PC directives are fiction. For instance - it's never been said that you can't use the term 'brainstorm' but people make up stories about directives that say you can't.

I think it's good that we no longer call people of colour by very offensive names and I am delighted we no longer use terms like deaf mute, cripple and spastic.

 

Title: ARe you PC?
Post by: smurfboy on January 19, 2006, 08:08:01 pm

I didn't say it was wrong...

Title: ARe you PC?
Post by: oldspice on January 19, 2006, 08:14:34 pm

I'm just joking   

Anyway, I'm size 14!

Title: ARe you PC?
Post by: smurfboy on January 19, 2006, 08:16:59 pm

I can't believe people used to use terms like 'nigger in the woodpile' and not consider themselves racist.

Title: ARe you PC?
Post by: oldspice on January 19, 2006, 08:24:04 pm

I was showing a video clip of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech to a class of mature students on Tuesday and I was embarrassed to hear the comentator repeatedly refer to him as a 'negro'. Even that sounded all wrong.

Title: ARe you PC?
Post by: smurfboy on January 19, 2006, 08:30:24 pm

I still used to say 'half-caste' at one time; it hadn't been considered offensive when I was young.

Title: ARe you PC?
Post by: chocolate chick on January 20, 2006, 08:17:41 am

I used to call poeple of mixed rate that. But since dating a black guy I have learnt the correct way is mixed race.

I don't get how black people can refer to themselves as nigger but white people can't.

Title: ARe you PC?
Post by: smurfboy on January 20, 2006, 02:01:17 pm

Even the phrase mixed race is considered un-PC by some now - 'bi-racial' is the latest buzzword. Personally I think that is more offensiveas it assumes someone mixed race is only a mix of two.

Title: ARe you PC?
Post by: chocolate chick on January 20, 2006, 02:17:02 pm

I think mioxed race is a good way to prefer to people who are, indeed of mixed race.

Title: ARe you PC?
Post by: oldspice on January 20, 2006, 04:33:24 pm

How does race work? I mean is it divided into black, Asian, Jewish, Arab and whites? Surely some people are both white and Jewish or black and Jewish?

Is a European but non-British white person a different race from me? I

I don't get it.