| Re: What is *Political Correctness* ? |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: kevirwinkevirwin Date: Aug 27, 2008 15:03
On Aug 27, 2:01Â am, "curmudgeon" bresnan.net> wrote:> Politically Correct
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> Culturally Sensitive
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> Multiculturally Unexceptionable
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> Appropriately inclusive
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> The term "politically correct" was co-opted by the white power elite as a
> tool for attacking multiculturalism is no longer "politically correct"
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> *SOURCE*
> The American Hyphen Society
> circa 1999.
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> "It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and
> Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought, should be literally unthinkable, at
> least so far as thought is dependent on words."
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> George Orwell  *1984*
[A] Accepting the notion that the words somehow modify the action/
deed -- a denial of "a rose by any other name".....
[B] a loss of the understanding of what humor ***is***...
[C] an irrational fear of inadvertently offending ( caused by [B])
and so it goes,
K e v
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