“[PC Culture is] a way of marginalizing normal people.” – Norm MacDonald.
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Craig Smithsays
Tell me about it!!
On a social website in the furry community, which shall remain nameless, it is now considered an offense to call someone abnormal, despite the clear dictionary definition meaning not normal. They continually point to a connotation that it is undesirable when most dictionaries do not show that connotation.
But even if you did include the connotation, would anyone consider being transsexual something desirable? I doubt it.
But to spare the thin skins of certain people, the word ‘abnormal’ is now Politically Incorrect.
Tomsays
Apart from a dog-and-pony light show (after the SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage) and using the correct initials and acronyms, what have Barry and Hillary done for LGBTQ Americans? Or for anyone else besides their core constituency (welfare recipients, illegal aliens, ISIS Trojan Horses, criminals, and wealthy campaign contributors)?
After Orlando, gun clubs and target ranges offered free self-defense training to gay people. Obama and Clinton responded to the tragedy the same way they did to San Bernardino, and to every other terrorist attack: by using the NRA as a scapegoat, and by threatening to take action against anyone who said anything that might be interpreted (or misinterpreted) as “anti-Muslim rhetoric.”
Hanoversays
Political Correctness has always been three things. A distraction from the reality of the Left’s push towards socialism, a bid for the vote of minorities too stupid (literally) to understand that they’re being corralled & an attack on the US’s middle class so that said socialism (unnamed by Democrats, but reality nevertheless) can be implemented. The context of socialism in the Democrats’ playbook being, no one must be able to do better than anyone else, except for those that are already at the top. The elite.
Kevin Donegansays
Tom … When you do an internet search for “What has Hillary Clinton done for the GLBT community” you get a myriad of responses …
When you type in “What has Donald Trump done for the GLBT community” you get …
… crickets, crickets, crickets. Nothing that came up had any substantive information.
Again, I’ve asked this question so many times it gets tiring, if the democrats (liberal, progressives, etc.) have treated GLBTQ, people of color, women, and other non-dominate groups, why do these groups continually support the democratic candidate overwhelmingly? Do not these people have the ability to comprehend what is best for their interests? The republicans (conservative, right wing, etc.) need to look at their message and track record to figure out why they lose these constituencies.
Ted B. (Charging Rhino)says
Some major universities are now offering students the “choice of preferred pronoun” — AND — threatening professors with administrative punishment if they don’t comply when addressing students in class.
I’m so glad these days that I didn’t go into education, I had a hard enough getting a civil-tongue back in the early-1980s around the wankers and losers I went to college-with.
Craig Smithsays
To the pronoun police I say this:
You represent less than 1/2 of 1% of the populations. I am not about to keep a database in my head to determine which pronoun to use with which student just to salve your itty bitty feelings. If pushed, I will use they/them/their for EVERYONE when referring to them in the third person. I will NOT use shi/xi/etc. under ANY circumstances.
Please don’t EVER post links from that despicable site again. While you’re no intellectual giant, that site is even beneath you.
KCRobsays
Newspeak was Big Brother’s policing of the language to make it impossible to think or articulate an incorrect thought. That’s “political correctness”.
Kevin – I don’t care that Hillary (or anyone else) has done for the LGBT “community. They did nothing that wasn’t a benefit to them; they did nothing that cost them anything personally.
Obama, for instance, ran for office opposed to same-sex marriage and, once there was only upside for him, he favors same-sex marriage.
I don’t want politicians that do favors for this group or that group – I want pols that put the nation’s interests at the top of their list of considerations. In a nation of 300+ million people, it’s not possible for everyone to get his/her/its way all the time.
I want politicians that recognize their constitutional limits.
Hanoversays
#4, The supposition that people are best served by a “government that does things for them” is pathetic & not usually addressed by Conservatives who don’t believe in handouts & entitlements. The myth that the Dems have always championed gays is that. A myth. Hillary hasn’t always vomited out special words for gays. Leftists, like yourself, gauge everything thusly; what is it that you can do for me. You have no concept of individualism & personal responsibility. Gays originally consolidated & agitated for their own rights. I remember it, like it was yesterday, but it wasn’t. It was decades ago now. The old Lesbian & Gay groups did what they needed to do, without maudlin & special words from the Democrats. Don’t expect the obvious to be answered, at all times. You’re so saturated with a me, me, me mentality, I wouldn’t, in a social setting, give you the time of day. I’ve previously stated that not all gays are liberal, self-centered low information dupes who follow after those that flatter & coddle them. Try thinking outside your socialist box.
pawfurbehrsays
Wasn’t Norm Macdonald fired from SNL for some kind of PC nonsense? I think that dated back to the 90s.
@ # 7, Rusty, don’t ever bring that stormfront shit to this site ever again. You would fit it in well with them being the fascist that you are.
White supremacists claim the Alt-Right is ‘their’ movement, but they are only a very small part of it. And really if you start digging into their agenda they are not part of it at all. If you go read the stuff on their websites they constantly push left-wing ideas and now they are promoting the “alt-left”. They just try to re-brand Marxism and sell it to gullible fools.
The Livewiresays
I would ask Rusty for an answer, but he likely can’t find any cut and paste talking points…
As V asked elsewhere, what is the ‘alt left?’ the leftist movements so vile that the left disavows them?
Reziacsays
“When you type in “What has Donald Trump done for the GLBT community” you get …
… crickets, crickets, crickets. Nothing that came up had any substantive information.”
Well, yeah. Because Trump has treated ’em like everybody else, not like a special protected class that’s got more rights than everyone else. Further, since when has he been in a position to implement public policy??
Lobogrissays
Some black people want to kill white people, Rusty. I have talked to lesbians who want to kill all but a few men. Do you REALLY want to go there with your Fascist BS?
Heliotropesays
Up @ #4, Kevin Donegan patronizes the naive toddlers he finds congregating at this site. To wit:
“… why do these groups continually support the democratic candidate overwhelmingly? Do not these people have the ability to comprehend what is best for their interests? The republicans (conservative, right wing, etc.) need to look at their message and track record to figure out why they lose these constituencies.”
Kevin Donegan is a “tit man” and government is one porcine sow with unlimited welfare juice spewing from artesian teats. And, Kevin Donegan wants his “fair share” of the booty and anyone who isn’t in the for the gravy train is a flat out, stoooopid loser and he has told you so.
Nobody knows the trouble gay Kevin Donegan has seen and no one knows his sorrow, sometimes he’s up and sometimes he’s down and sometimes he’s almost to the ground and then he gathers with the LGBTQXYZ community and the DemonizingRat Party and every day his gay prospect’s pampered and he feels a winning battle and the Demonizingrats are the Rock of Gay Salvation, Socialism, Savior of the world, takes him from his lowly gay station; Let the rainbow flag be unfurled. With the DemonizingRats gays contend for the right; ev’ry day gay battles are raging and the DemonizingRats help gays to win the fight. No need to keep a list for what gays are contending.
Well, Kevin Donegan, when the DemonizingRats came blowing through your door, you had better kept what’s precious hidden underneath the floor, because you know the DemoningRats will be coming back for more and you better treat them so good that they won’t squeeze you for any more. Did you ever really get what you expect? You’ve been trying to justify, find out how and where the DemonizingRats came. DemonizingRats are your angel and to travel with your angel you have to be a whore. DemonizingRats have taken you down and you don’t feel no shame that your dreams are not your own and you are left in pain. So you are painfully aware that every step you take, the DemonizingRats are controlling you and controlling your own gay game. Looking back in retrospect, did you ever get what you’d expect? Trying to rectify got you lost a little further. You’ve been trying to justify the DemonizingRats and consequently lost control of your own gay gains.
(apologies to Beth Orton)
Stevesays
“When you type in “What has Donald Trump done for the GLBT community” you get”- an advocate article praising him 15 years ago when it didn’t have a reason to lie.
Rusty you should only look at stormfront to see the black on gay attacks mainstream media doesn’t cover. Then you can link the local news story it links instead of 3 ni663rs killed a f0gg0t in Philly, but you are probably more mad at them saying it that way than you are at the killers.
Do you know the other US gay bar a moslem attacked in the last 3 years?
Both the PULSE moslems daddy and the Turkish Washington mall shooter support hilliary. The mall shooter voted 3 times but not a citizen.
Throbert McGeesays
But to spare the thin skins of certain people, the word ‘abnormal’ is now Politically Incorrect.
Any ESL speaker above the beginning level who used “abnormal” as a synonym for “non-normal” would get down-graded by me — not because of Political Correctness, but because understanding connotative differences is important.
To put it another way, people with an IQ of 40 may be called “abnormal” (though not by the politically correct) but people with an IQ of 190 are generally not called “abnormal,” despite the fact that the latter are FARTHER FROM THE NORM.
Tell me about it!!
On a social website in the furry community, which shall remain nameless, it is now considered an offense to call someone abnormal, despite the clear dictionary definition meaning not normal. They continually point to a connotation that it is undesirable when most dictionaries do not show that connotation.
But even if you did include the connotation, would anyone consider being transsexual something desirable? I doubt it.
But to spare the thin skins of certain people, the word ‘abnormal’ is now Politically Incorrect.
Apart from a dog-and-pony light show (after the SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage) and using the correct initials and acronyms, what have Barry and Hillary done for LGBTQ Americans? Or for anyone else besides their core constituency (welfare recipients, illegal aliens, ISIS Trojan Horses, criminals, and wealthy campaign contributors)?
After Orlando, gun clubs and target ranges offered free self-defense training to gay people. Obama and Clinton responded to the tragedy the same way they did to San Bernardino, and to every other terrorist attack: by using the NRA as a scapegoat, and by threatening to take action against anyone who said anything that might be interpreted (or misinterpreted) as “anti-Muslim rhetoric.”
Political Correctness has always been three things. A distraction from the reality of the Left’s push towards socialism, a bid for the vote of minorities too stupid (literally) to understand that they’re being corralled & an attack on the US’s middle class so that said socialism (unnamed by Democrats, but reality nevertheless) can be implemented. The context of socialism in the Democrats’ playbook being, no one must be able to do better than anyone else, except for those that are already at the top. The elite.
Tom … When you do an internet search for “What has Hillary Clinton done for the GLBT community” you get a myriad of responses …
http://shewinswewin.org/blog/5-times-hillary-clinton-pushed-for-lgbt-rights/
http://www.advocate.com/election/2016/3/17/what-do-lgbt-voters-owe-hillary
http://www.newnownext.com/8-times-hillary-clinton-was-a-champion-of-lgbt-equality/02/2016/
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-lgbt-lgbtq-rights-2016-election
When you type in “What has Donald Trump done for the GLBT community” you get …
… crickets, crickets, crickets. Nothing that came up had any substantive information.
Again, I’ve asked this question so many times it gets tiring, if the democrats (liberal, progressives, etc.) have treated GLBTQ, people of color, women, and other non-dominate groups, why do these groups continually support the democratic candidate overwhelmingly? Do not these people have the ability to comprehend what is best for their interests? The republicans (conservative, right wing, etc.) need to look at their message and track record to figure out why they lose these constituencies.
Some major universities are now offering students the “choice of preferred pronoun” — AND — threatening professors with administrative punishment if they don’t comply when addressing students in class.
I’m so glad these days that I didn’t go into education, I had a hard enough getting a civil-tongue back in the early-1980s around the wankers and losers I went to college-with.
To the pronoun police I say this:
You represent less than 1/2 of 1% of the populations. I am not about to keep a database in my head to determine which pronoun to use with which student just to salve your itty bitty feelings. If pushed, I will use they/them/their for EVERYONE when referring to them in the third person. I will NOT use shi/xi/etc. under ANY circumstances.
From the Alt Right Daily Stormer
http://www.dailystormer.com/stormer-book-club-crusade-the-final-solution-to-the-milo-problem/
Rusty:
Please don’t EVER post links from that despicable site again. While you’re no intellectual giant, that site is even beneath you.
Newspeak was Big Brother’s policing of the language to make it impossible to think or articulate an incorrect thought. That’s “political correctness”.
Kevin – I don’t care that Hillary (or anyone else) has done for the LGBT “community. They did nothing that wasn’t a benefit to them; they did nothing that cost them anything personally.
Obama, for instance, ran for office opposed to same-sex marriage and, once there was only upside for him, he favors same-sex marriage.
I don’t want politicians that do favors for this group or that group – I want pols that put the nation’s interests at the top of their list of considerations. In a nation of 300+ million people, it’s not possible for everyone to get his/her/its way all the time.
I want politicians that recognize their constitutional limits.
#4, The supposition that people are best served by a “government that does things for them” is pathetic & not usually addressed by Conservatives who don’t believe in handouts & entitlements. The myth that the Dems have always championed gays is that. A myth. Hillary hasn’t always vomited out special words for gays. Leftists, like yourself, gauge everything thusly; what is it that you can do for me. You have no concept of individualism & personal responsibility. Gays originally consolidated & agitated for their own rights. I remember it, like it was yesterday, but it wasn’t. It was decades ago now. The old Lesbian & Gay groups did what they needed to do, without maudlin & special words from the Democrats. Don’t expect the obvious to be answered, at all times. You’re so saturated with a me, me, me mentality, I wouldn’t, in a social setting, give you the time of day. I’ve previously stated that not all gays are liberal, self-centered low information dupes who follow after those that flatter & coddle them. Try thinking outside your socialist box.
Wasn’t Norm Macdonald fired from SNL for some kind of PC nonsense? I think that dated back to the 90s.
@ # 7, Rusty, don’t ever bring that stormfront shit to this site ever again. You would fit it in well with them being the fascist that you are.
Alt Right!
http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/09/29/antisemites-and-white-supremacists-declare-holy-crusade-against-milo/
https://redice.tv/news/holy-crusade-alt-right-to-boycott-breitbart-until-milo-is-removed
Alt right is a fringe movement dude
White supremacists claim the Alt-Right is ‘their’ movement, but they are only a very small part of it. And really if you start digging into their agenda they are not part of it at all. If you go read the stuff on their websites they constantly push left-wing ideas and now they are promoting the “alt-left”. They just try to re-brand Marxism and sell it to gullible fools.
I would ask Rusty for an answer, but he likely can’t find any cut and paste talking points…
As V asked elsewhere, what is the ‘alt left?’ the leftist movements so vile that the left disavows them?
“When you type in “What has Donald Trump done for the GLBT community” you get …
… crickets, crickets, crickets. Nothing that came up had any substantive information.”
Well, yeah. Because Trump has treated ’em like everybody else, not like a special protected class that’s got more rights than everyone else. Further, since when has he been in a position to implement public policy??
Some black people want to kill white people, Rusty. I have talked to lesbians who want to kill all but a few men. Do you REALLY want to go there with your Fascist BS?
Up @ #4, Kevin Donegan patronizes the naive toddlers he finds congregating at this site. To wit:
Kevin Donegan is a “tit man” and government is one porcine sow with unlimited welfare juice spewing from artesian teats. And, Kevin Donegan wants his “fair share” of the booty and anyone who isn’t in the for the gravy train is a flat out, stoooopid loser and he has told you so.
Nobody knows the trouble gay Kevin Donegan has seen and no one knows his sorrow, sometimes he’s up and sometimes he’s down and sometimes he’s almost to the ground and then he gathers with the LGBTQXYZ community and the DemonizingRat Party and every day his gay prospect’s pampered and he feels a winning battle and the Demonizingrats are the Rock of Gay Salvation, Socialism, Savior of the world, takes him from his lowly gay station; Let the rainbow flag be unfurled. With the DemonizingRats gays contend for the right; ev’ry day gay battles are raging and the DemonizingRats help gays to win the fight. No need to keep a list for what gays are contending.
Well, Kevin Donegan, when the DemonizingRats came blowing through your door, you had better kept what’s precious hidden underneath the floor, because you know the DemoningRats will be coming back for more and you better treat them so good that they won’t squeeze you for any more. Did you ever really get what you expect? You’ve been trying to justify, find out how and where the DemonizingRats came. DemonizingRats are your angel and to travel with your angel you have to be a whore. DemonizingRats have taken you down and you don’t feel no shame that your dreams are not your own and you are left in pain. So you are painfully aware that every step you take, the DemonizingRats are controlling you and controlling your own gay game. Looking back in retrospect, did you ever get what you’d expect? Trying to rectify got you lost a little further. You’ve been trying to justify the DemonizingRats and consequently lost control of your own gay gains.
(apologies to Beth Orton)
“When you type in “What has Donald Trump done for the GLBT community” you get”- an advocate article praising him 15 years ago when it didn’t have a reason to lie.
Rusty you should only look at stormfront to see the black on gay attacks mainstream media doesn’t cover. Then you can link the local news story it links instead of 3 ni663rs killed a f0gg0t in Philly, but you are probably more mad at them saying it that way than you are at the killers.
Do you know the other US gay bar a moslem attacked in the last 3 years?
Both the PULSE moslems daddy and the Turkish Washington mall shooter support hilliary. The mall shooter voted 3 times but not a citizen.
Any ESL speaker above the beginning level who used “abnormal” as a synonym for “non-normal” would get down-graded by me — not because of Political Correctness, but because understanding connotative differences is important.
To put it another way, people with an IQ of 40 may be called “abnormal” (though not by the politically correct) but people with an IQ of 190 are generally not called “abnormal,” despite the fact that the latter are FARTHER FROM THE NORM.