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White Men Can't Jump: Political Correctness 101
FoxNews ^ | Friday, March 26, 2004 | Eric Burns

Posted on 03/27/2004 5:05:06 PM PST by Michael2001

Edited on 04/22/2004 12:39:25 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

It isn't always easy to be politically correct. Sometimes, in fact, it's an outright struggle.

For instance: you hear a statement that you're sure is politically incorrect. Your nerve endings tingle. Your juices start to flow. Oh boy, you say to yourself, here's yet another example of injustice in a society absolutely riddled with the stuff. You cannot wait to tell teacher and get patted on the head.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: discrimination; diversity; ericburns; multiculturalism; pc; racism
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1 posted on 03/27/2004 5:05:06 PM PST by Michael2001
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To: Michael2001
I wonder if this guy defended Rush Limbaugh when he made his statements about Donovan McNab.
2 posted on 03/27/2004 5:12:10 PM PST by speedy
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To: speedy
Silly, that was football. Basketball is different.
3 posted on 03/27/2004 5:23:12 PM PST by SouthernFreebird
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To: SouthernFreebird
Well shut my mouth, you are indeed correct. I suppose Bob Ryan, using his same racial philosophy of sports, roots against black players in hockey and resents Tiger Woods's success in golf. Aren't they white sports the way basketball and football are black sports?
4 posted on 03/27/2004 6:18:04 PM PST by speedy
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To: Michael2001
I try so hard to be politically correct, but I just can never figure out the rules. For example, why is it that "people of color" is politically correct, but "colored people" is not?
5 posted on 03/27/2004 6:21:38 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy
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To: Bubba_Leroy
For example, why is it that "people of color" is politically correct, but "colored people" is not?

Because its harder to say?

6 posted on 03/27/2004 6:29:55 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: speedy
I wonder if this guy defended Rush Limbaugh when he made his statements about Donovan McNab.

Actually, if memory serves, Eric Burns (the author of the piece, and host of FNC's Fox News Watch) did defend Rush.

7 posted on 03/27/2004 6:31:52 PM PST by mhking (Sporting News' pre-season pick? Cubs over Red Sox in 7... World ends next morning.)
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8 posted on 03/27/2004 6:32:38 PM PST by mhking (Sporting News' pre-season pick? Cubs over Red Sox in 7... World ends next morning.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Then what about the word "negro"? You aren't allowed to use that word unless you are referring to the United Negro College Fund.
9 posted on 03/27/2004 6:32:46 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy
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To: mhking
Hi mh -- well, then he does have the virtue of consistency. It's just that even recognizing the extraordinary success of black athletes in basketball and football, it seems illogical to categorize them as black sports, no others need apply, just as it would be to get irritated at black hockey players. I remember Frank DeFord from Sports Illustrated, discussing the Boston Celtics in the 1980s and saying his admiration for their success was tempered by the fact that they had too many white players (they had three white starters -- Bird, McHale and Ainge -- all of whom were perfectly capable of excelling at their positions.) Now he might have had a point if the team had few black players and consistently performed poorly, but since the whole point is to win games, and the Celtics were winning games, I couldn't imagine why it would make a difference. I think most fans just want to see the best athletes, and a team that was stacked with underachieving white guys would not have much of a following.
10 posted on 03/27/2004 6:45:35 PM PST by speedy
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To: mhking
The politically correct can't think.

I totally agree with that.

11 posted on 03/27/2004 7:08:10 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul (Kerry's 3 Purple Hearts are: 2 for minor arm and thigh injury and 1 for killing a semi-dead VietCong)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
"Then what about the word "negro"?

There is nothing wrong with that word. I make it a point to use that word often, esp. to my one friend who gets really annoyed.

The esteemed Stanley Crouch agrees with me, and he's a negro!
12 posted on 03/27/2004 8:10:28 PM PST by jocon307 (The dems don't get it, the American people do.)
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To: Michael2001
Black man can't swim.
13 posted on 03/27/2004 8:13:08 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: Coleus
How about ice skate?
14 posted on 03/27/2004 8:45:47 PM PST by Choose Ye This Day ("We are delighted that Pecker will be leading the way.")
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To: MNLDS
Black man can't play hockey or figure skate.
15 posted on 03/27/2004 9:00:08 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: speedy
I'm white, 5-10, and when I was young, I could get most of my hand on the rim.
16 posted on 03/27/2004 9:44:55 PM PST by line drive to right
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To: Michael2001
Last year, the Globe suspended him for a month for saying on a Boston TV station that someone should "smack" Joumana Kidd (search), wife of NBA star Jason Kidd (search), because she so often showed up at courtside with the couple's young son, thereby making herself more attractive to cameras.

What astonished me about that story was that it seemed like Ryan got more flak (and more of a punishment from his own employer) for just saying that Joumama Kidd should be smacked, than Jason Kidd got from the media and the NBA for actually smacking her a few years ago and getting arrested for domestic violence!

17 posted on 03/27/2004 9:55:20 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: jocon307
Agreed. But, I've noticed, though I might be mistaken, that Stanley Crouch typically uses Negro when he's speaking about them in a setting or time when it was the accepted form of address. Otherwise he uses the more acceptable euphemism. I think how he uses it, shows a certain subtlety and is intended to specifically point out the absurdity of "politically correct" speech.
18 posted on 03/27/2004 9:58:19 PM PST by Coeur de Lion
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To: Michael2001
White men don't need to "jump".
They rule the world. And make no apologies for it.
That's reality like it or not.
19 posted on 03/27/2004 10:02:13 PM PST by Jorge
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To: Jorge

Frank White, owner ATK motorcycles mid jump.

20 posted on 03/27/2004 10:25:46 PM PST by SENTINEL (USMC GWI (MY GOD IS GOD, ROCKCHUCKER !!))
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