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Has Political Correctness Gone off the Rails in America?
http://www.spiegel.de ^ | 1/5/17 | Philipp Oehmke

Posted on 01/13/2017 4:01:02 PM PST by BBell

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To: BBell
A concept that was intended to create greater freedom in the country

boy was this guy ever clueless

41 posted on 01/13/2017 5:26:47 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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To: BBell

PC IS DEAD TO ME
Thank You Donald Trump!


42 posted on 01/13/2017 5:30:58 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: BBell

who considers it divisive?

its dead on accurate.


43 posted on 01/13/2017 5:32:34 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BBell
A concept that was intended to create greater freedom in the country may instead have resulted in the opposite.

May?

PC is right out of the Nazi and Marxist playbook. It was NEVER about "freedom." Period.

It is a lie - straight from the Father of Lies.

44 posted on 01/13/2017 5:39:05 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Politically Correct

A photo from the article.

The black women who are converting to "black Islam" are the worst. There are more and more of them. Hateful. Agressive. Prideful. And selling their souls to Satan because they think it is a big "FU" to "white culture."

Good luck with that in Hell.

45 posted on 01/13/2017 5:41:46 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: RegulatorCountry

I’ve watched it before. It’s hilarious how these nutcase college students have no knowledge as to how to handle Milo,Cristina and Steven. All they can do is try to shout them down.


46 posted on 01/13/2017 5:53:29 PM PST by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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Exactly. The college kids are annoying, but someone who was involved in the “Free Speech Movement,” but is now against free speech because she has the power to punish it is the real enemy.


47 posted on 01/13/2017 6:33:22 PM PST by Burma Jones
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To: dr_lew

Oh. Thanks for clearing that up. I misunderstand a lot.


48 posted on 01/13/2017 6:44:53 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: BBell

If these people had their way, we would all be in reeducation camps.

I’m not boarding that bus, and I doubt most FReepers would, either.

Beyond that, see the Solzhenitsyn quote towards the top of my FR profile page.


49 posted on 01/13/2017 6:49:22 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Since 1965 everything has gone off the rails! What used to be up is now down; black is white. Laws apply only to the common man but not to politicians. Illegal aliens are not lawbreakers but undocumented persons. A husband can now be female; wife can be male. Dope usage is common and promoted by the Hollywood elite. Governments are participating in the promotion of marijuana usage purely to collect the taxes. The numbers racket used to be illegal now it is sponsored and promoted by the government. Free speech for a white citizen is different than it is for a black citizen. Just to mention a few things that are off the rails, I could continue. It is NOT the same America that I grew up in.


50 posted on 01/13/2017 7:00:26 PM PST by eeriegeno (<p>)
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From the article:

"Two years ago, Copeland asked a young student who was editing a video during rehearsals for a stage production if she would manage to finish editing the footage by the end of the week. He didn't get the immediate response and things were hectic. "Yes or no?" he called out in his exalted way. "Yes or no?""

On the "Snowflake" Oberlin Campus, that led to a "Title IX investigation for sexual misconduct." against the professor.

What does that stupid snowflake think will happen IF she gets a job in the real world -- and her boss asks for a forecast on completion of her work -- and she "retreats into her safe space", and refuses to answer?

Another "Title IX investigation for sexual misconduct."?

No! She will find her tender little lezzie snowflake @$$ out on the street, before her yoga pants can catch up with her butt!

If I were a parent, paying for some expensive, "prestigious" university to prepare my offspring for the real world --and, found stuff like this going on, I would not only yank my child out of that hellhole, but would have my attorney demand a full refund of any tuition I had paid.

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Dismay at the the whole "Precious SJW Snowflake" abomination prompted me to create this, several months ago:

A whole lot of "Precious Little SJW Snowflakes" are going to have stunning awakenings -- the first time they seek (and, possibly, get) their first job in the real world -- where money is earned...

51 posted on 01/13/2017 7:14:08 PM PST by TXnMA ( If it ain't broke, for da*ned sure -- don't ask the government to fix it!)
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Beyond that, see the Solzhenitsyn quote towards the top of my FR profile page.

Well, I can only say that I think AS is being somewhat unfair to the victims in that case, as he describes it. But one might still take a lesson from it.

52 posted on 01/13/2017 7:24:52 PM PST by dr_lew (I)
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To: BBell

How much of this is rooted in feminism? Do these responses to real world experiences sound like hysteria? Check out this website tracing the history of the term, indicating that it is Greek for “uterus”: http://academic.mu.edu/meissnerd/hysteria.html

What is interesting is that being a woman, I can easily attest to the fact that sometimes, my emotions get away with me. But I recognize it and do not act on those overwrought emotions.

A great deal of what we are seeing in the deterioration of modern society looks to me like women’s emotional tendencies are being given equal footing with or taking precedence over actual rational thought.

Add to this the insistence of feminists that the difference between the sexes is merely a “social construct”, they actually believe that men respond to circumstances the same way that they do but just won’t admit it. You see, society has conditioned them to “suppress” their emotions and they need to find and express their “feminine” side.

What we have is the complete “infantilization” of society. Now, “infantilization” is a term used by feminists to describe what women think sexists do to them when they don’t take their hysterics seriously, i.e., treating them like children. But they are the ones infantilizing everyone by insisting that no one has the ability to deal with setbacks, criticism or anything short of unicorns and rainbows.

How can I take someone seriously when they engage in temper tantrums when they don’t get their way? In computer programming, we call this an infinite loop. It runs endlessly and will eventually fry your computer. Let’s not let this happen to our civilization.

All I can say is, God Bless Donald Trump! This insanity, or should I say hysteria, must end.


53 posted on 01/13/2017 7:42:40 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: TXnMA

I liked your stupid juvenile whiners meme you made.


54 posted on 01/13/2017 8:02:12 PM PST by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: BBell
Few terms are as divisive in today's United States as "political correctness." A concept that was intended to create greater freedom in the country may instead have resulted in the opposite.

utter bs.

political correctness was devised by the nazis as a political tool meant to control those its aimed at.

it was NEVER meant to create more freedom... but more govt control

55 posted on 01/13/2017 8:33:33 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: BBell

When my drilling rig caught on fire in Nigeria I needed a safe space. Did not have one.

When my drilling rig sank in a storm in Venezuela I needed a safe space. Did not have one.

When my rig almost capsized in the North Sea I needed a safe space. Did not have one.

When I was inadvertently caught up in a communist riot in Tehran in 1960 I needed a safe space. I found one on the floor of a taxi cab. The driver probably saved my life. I was only 13 years old. I was very scared.

When my friend Charles McMahan was killed in Vietnam he needed a safe space. He did not have one. He died.

These putrid little sissified pansies on the Universities need to grow up. Life will kick you in the ass if you do not. I will probably be the one kicking them in the ass.


56 posted on 01/13/2017 9:53:18 PM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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Thumbs up to your post!


57 posted on 01/14/2017 11:14:56 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Pontiac

He should sue Greece for reparations! Traumatized by his own ancestors!!! /s;)


58 posted on 01/15/2017 9:30:24 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Frank_2001

Yes, I think he would lose bowel control if he read about the Peloponnesian War


59 posted on 01/15/2017 10:08:01 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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