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A most politically incorrect statement
Machine Design Magazine ^
| 4-1-05
| Ronald Khol
Posted on 10/19/2005 8:28:28 AM PDT by vannrox
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Even in your own company, consider two white males washing their hands in the men's room. One wants to tell a joke to the other, but the joke contains a mild racist term or maybe something making fun of women or homosexuals. The first thing the joke teller has to do is make a visual sweep of the stalls to ensure no one else is within earshot. Yes, political correctness has come to that holy of holies, the men's lavatory.
We all know this is true! Face it, is this FREEDOM?
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posted on
10/19/2005 8:28:48 AM PDT
by
vannrox
To: vannrox
"The 0.8% blood-content limit for drunken driving"
0.8 would make one comatose. Must be a typo. 0.1-0.08
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posted on
10/19/2005 8:35:10 AM PDT
by
GSlob
To: vannrox
The first thing the joke teller has to do is make a visual sweep of the stalls to ensure no one else is within earshot. That has less to do with political correctness and more to do with common courtesy.
To: vannrox
I was at a WSP show last night...outdoors...I came home reeking of cigarette smoke.
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posted on
10/19/2005 8:43:44 AM PDT
by
Panic in the Streets
("Mayor, I've confirmed the data: the hippies ARE planning a massive jam band concert!"- Eric Cartman)
To: vannrox
It is indeed not freedom and the fault lies with us. As long as we allow the few to dictate to the many (credit Spock) we will continue to suffer this crap. Personally in my life I have none of it and will offer my opinion and deal with the whining and complaints as they occur. On more then one occasion I have asked a supervisor or store manager to get someone to help me who speaks a language I can understand. My position is and has been that if a business wants MY business it damn well better cater to me or else it's sayanora (sp) and I'm off to the next place.
If people would stop being so concerned about what others think of them and worry more about sticking to what YOU believe is right this political correctness crap would go away.
To: vannrox
What's his point?
That it would be great if you could tell racist jokes in the bathroom at work and not care if members of the races disparaged in the joke heard you or not?
Or that it would be great if you could tell a racist joke among whites and never have another white person get offended by it?
Freedom is when you get to tell your joke and other people get to be offended and hold it against you.
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posted on
10/19/2005 8:44:00 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
To: wideawake
Freedom is when you get to tell your joke and other people get to be offended and hold it against you.
AMEN. Well worded and very on point. Bravo.
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posted on
10/19/2005 8:50:04 AM PDT
by
vannrox
(The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
To: Panic in the Streets
With your point being? If you went to a beach, would the aroma of rotting seaweed have the same effect, Panic?
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posted on
10/19/2005 8:57:38 AM PDT
by
Texas WOP
To: vannrox
It's too bad the War of Tobacco has been won, if only to set the pick on the Obesity Nazis, the Mandatory helmet Nazis, and the "Big Booze" Nazis. What ever happened to mind your own business?
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posted on
10/19/2005 8:57:48 AM PDT
by
jackieaxe
(English speaking, law abiding, taxpaying citizen)
To: vannrox
Even in your own company, consider two white males washing their hands in the men's room. Sorry, this crazy sci-fi scenario exceeds my ability to suspend disbelief.
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posted on
10/19/2005 8:58:49 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(We cannot defeat foreign enemies of the Constitution if we yield to the domestic ones.)
To: Texas WOP
You seem touchy.
Are you a smoker?
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posted on
10/19/2005 9:02:10 AM PDT
by
Panic in the Streets
("Mayor, I've confirmed the data: the hippies ARE planning a massive jam band concert!"- Eric Cartman)
To: vannrox
We have not been "free" for quite sometime. Take a look around at the regulations and restrictions that now hem you in compared to say 1935 or even better 1900.
As an example, in 1900 one could walk into a drugstore and buy cocaine. Yet the country didn't go under. One could, gasp!, even ride a bicycle without a helmet. Yes, Virginia, times have changed and perhaps not for the best.
To: vannrox
Good to see that Ron Kohl is still writing. I used to read him quite a bit in the early 90s.
Only thing wrong w/ the piece is his giving Stern a pass.
Stern's show was a huge source of spewed filth on the airwaves (at least when I used to encounter it on the dial in 1999).
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posted on
10/19/2005 9:03:50 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(Polite political action is about as useful as a miniskirt in a convent -- Claire Wolfe)
To: GSlob
"The 0.8% blood-content limit for drunken driving" 0.8 would make one comatose. Right you are, back when I used to drink I hit 0.40% on one occasion (right before I quit for good!). I was walking around and joking with the cops after I totaled my car. The medics thought that the alcohol should have killed me.
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
10/19/2005 9:06:01 AM PDT
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: Bluegrass Conservative
The first thing the joke teller has to do is make a visual sweep of the stalls to ensure no one else is within earshot.
That has less to do with political correctness and more to do with common courtesy.
That may be however the fact that you really have to worry about it is all PC related. The fact is you can get into a lot of trouble for being discourteous.
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posted on
10/19/2005 9:07:58 AM PDT
by
Khepera
(Do not remove by penalty of law!)
To: Sloth
consider two white males washing their hands in the men's room. Ah, but if there are two, hands get washed. Should there be one, alone, no washing takes place.
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posted on
10/19/2005 9:09:47 AM PDT
by
AbeKrieger
(Islam is the virus that causes al-Qaeda.)
To: wideawake
Targeted PC extends to FR I regret to say.
Use a derogatory term to describe a black person and your post will be pulled within a few seconds.
Use a derogatory term to describe a white person and your post will have a long and happy life.
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posted on
10/19/2005 9:15:15 AM PDT
by
Mulch
(tm)
To: Mulch
I think it depends on context.
Were a self-described black FReeper to use derogatory epithets about whites, the post would likely be pulled.
When a self-described white FReeper uses a derogatory epithet about whites it is generally allowed to stand, however.
There is also a subset of FReepers who have appointed themselves the racism police and will hit abuse if a post strikes them as having a slight hint of racism.
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posted on
10/19/2005 9:22:25 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
To: Bluegrass Conservative
"That has less to do with political correctness and more to do with common courtesy."Common courtesy is not eavesdropping on others' conversations.
Knowing a minority is in a bathroom stall and loudly telling a minority-related joke -- that's discourteous. Then again, he may laugh the loudest.
To: vannrox
All that comes to mind is that puppet that was an old codger that you used to say when asked why did he smoke: Cuz it pisses people off!"
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posted on
10/19/2005 9:34:53 AM PDT
by
smartin
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