Author Topic: what is PC? (Read 2604 times)

Jackal1 · « **Reply #90 on:** April 08, 2005, 09:55:24 AM »

Did someone mention fence straddler?

TheDudeDVant · « **Reply #91 on:** April 08, 2005, 10:18:06 AM »

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Originally posted by Jackal1
Did someone mention fence straddler?

lol the coward mentioning that again??

What two issues do you mean??

TheDudeDVant · « **Reply #92 on:** April 08, 2005, 10:18:46 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
ok... PC... good or bad?

lazs

PC is manners.. manners are good..

edit: laws enforcing PC - bad

lazs2 · « **Reply #93 on:** April 08, 2005, 02:25:43 PM »

If PC equals manners then why bother? we already have a word for manners... it is called..... oddly enough... manners.

lazs

killnu · « **Reply #94 on:** April 08, 2005, 02:59:06 PM »

sure, manners are manners, but PC is different.

im in certain military organization,ill leave it at that. now PC is not telling a certain joke because there are females in the room, but knowing those females would tell the same joke, that is pc. knowing if a woman would be offened by it, not telling it, that is manners. 2 different things to me.

TheDudeDVant · « **Reply #95 on:** April 08, 2005, 03:01:23 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
If PC equals manners then why bother? we already have a word for manners... it is called..... oddly enough... manners.

lazs

Well I don't know the reason.. Perhaps, words, like every other thing on this planet will evolve from time to time.. Before manners if was called etiquette.

HERE is a short lesson for you to read..

TheDudeDVant · « **Reply #96 on:** April 08, 2005, 03:04:39 PM »

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Originally posted by killnu
sure, manners are manners, but PC is different.

im in certain military organization,ill leave it at that. now PC is not telling a certain joke because there are females in the room, but knowing those females would tell the same joke, that is pc. knowing if a woman would be offened by it, not telling it, that is manners. 2 different things to me.

Why would you not tell the joke to the women sitting in the room?

killnu · « **Reply #97 on:** April 08, 2005, 05:31:22 PM »

because they could nail you with sexual harrassment

its ok if she does it tho. pfft

bustr · « **Reply #98 on:** April 08, 2005, 05:58:39 PM »

PC is the equivalent of an invisible Communist Politcal Officer in the room at all times. If you are a White male, the Officer is always listening and recording "you". When women, liberals or protected minorities decide to be offended by you, always at their discretion and by secret committe agreement, the Political Officer is the only justification they need for your ruin......................and ruin you they will.

Manners is agreeing to disagree about he perceived content of your comment or joke and parting ways to avoid further confrontation. PC is finding out that the person who agreed to disagree with you went directly to HR or the ACLU or their lawyer when you get served with harrasment papers walking into work the next day and seeing HR waiting to escort you out of the building with your final paycheck.

If any of you have ever thought that the mandintory "Sexual Harrassment Classes" at your jobs all seem to be in reality indoctrination on "How not to Piss off women for any reason at work and loose your job" you are right. My girlfreind used to be the HR manager for a company I worked at.

ASTAC · « **Reply #99 on:** April 08, 2005, 06:02:26 PM »

I'll tell ya whats not PC....the 2nd to the last picture in the Finnish Aces High Thread.

Jackal1 · « **Reply #100 on:** April 08, 2005, 08:19:40 PM »

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Originally posted by TheDudeDVant

What two issues do you mean??

LOL
Still can`t read.
You say PC is good if blah blah blah.
Then you say it`s bad if blah blah blah.
Fence straddling Is one way to put it and like I said before covering your *** is another way to put it.
Your either for or against or you are straddling the fence to cover your ***.

Leslie · « **Reply #101 on:** April 08, 2005, 09:49:12 PM »

I wasn't commin back cause this was starting to look ugly, but what the hell, with Dude, Lazs and Jackal in here, it can't be that bad.

To get back on track here, in regards to the title of this thread, I did look up some websites discussing PC, and the one I found most interesting was this one. It is not light reading where psychology is concerned, but may help unveil the complexities of PC somewhat. By no means does it address all facets of PC, but does offer an explanation for the phenomenon. I don't regard the article as a hard core scientific end all, be all authority. That may be because I never thought about PC all that much before because it never affected me directly in the workplace (that I know of.) However, it is compeling and offers another point of view.

The end of the article even attributes a possible positive aspect to PC.

Here 'tis a link for anyone interested.

Aside from the article, and as my personal feelings about PC goes. I can't say there are any positive aspects. Imo, PC is foolishness given authority. It is passing the buck. It is not taking responsibility for ones actions.

Psychodynamics of Political Correctness

Les

aztec · « **Reply #102 on:** April 09, 2005, 08:12:03 AM »

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Originally posted by aztec
And now you must resort to name calling to bolster your position.
Very PC and very impressive sir.

I've seen you vehemently calling people out for a response in this thread....how about you respond to this sir.

Leslie · « **Reply #103 on:** April 09, 2005, 08:43:03 AM »

Pistols at ten paces.

Les

lazs2 · « **Reply #104 on:** April 09, 2005, 09:33:08 AM »

There is no way that I could say it any better than bustr did. dude knows that this is the difference between PB and manners or even ettiquet... They are all words meaning different things... Only the first is orwellian miond control crap tho. for dude to even -pretend that it is any different is very disapointing and a little scary. It is a look into the mind of a liberal.

"PC is the equivalent of an invisible Communist Politcal Officer in the room at all times. If you are a White male, the Officer is always listening and recording "you". When women, liberals or protected minorities decide to be offended by you, always at their discretion and by secret committe agreement, the Political Officer is the only justification they need for your ruin......................and ruin you they will.

Oh... and the new "paradine" for HR is to play good cop/bad cop with management... they are scum and you should never ever never tell them any more than you absolutely have to.

Manners is agreeing to disagree about he perceived content of your comment or joke and parting ways to avoid further confrontation. PC is finding out that the person who agreed to disagree with you went directly to HR or the ACLU or their lawyer when you get served with harrasment papers walking into work the next day and seeing HR waiting to escort you out of the building with your final paycheck.

If any of you have ever thought that the mandintory "Sexual Harrassment Classes" at your jobs all seem to be in reality indoctrination on "How not to Piss off women for any reason at work and loose your job" you are right. My girlfreind used to be the HR manager for a company I worked at."

lazs