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Ferno wrote:Spreading another half-assed, miscredited quote again, huh woody?

Caught with your pants down again. Not surprising. How many times are you going to get caught spreading ★■◆● on this board until you figure out you can't get away with it? It's not hard to punch in 'bond university queensland "political correctness" ' into Google, and find out if it's true or not.

All you do nowadays is spread lies. It's bull★■◆●, and it's just stupid.

Top Gun wrote:Even if it was a real quote, it doesn't remotely apply to whatever people label as "political correctness" in the first place.

Top Gun wrote:Even if it was a real quote, it doesn't remotely apply to whatever people label as "political correctness" in the first place.

Freebase wrote:Political correctness is a pejorative term that refers to language, ideas, policies, and behavior aimed at minimizing alienation of and discrimination against politically, socially or economically disadvantaged groups. The term usually implies that these social considerations are excessive or of a purely "political" nature. These groups most prominently include those defined by gender, race, sexual orientation and disability. Historically, the term was a colloquialism used in the early-to-mid 20th century by Communists and Socialists in political debates, referring pejoratively to the Communist "party line", which provided for "correct" positions on many matters of politics. The term was adopted in the later 20th century by the New Left, applied with a certain humour to condemn sexist or racist conduct as "not politically correct". By the early 1990s, the term was adopted by US conservatives as a pejorative term for all manner of attempts to promote multiculturalism and identity politics, particularly in terms of attempts to introduce new terms that sought to leave behind discriminatory baggage attached to older ones, and conversely to try to make older ones taboo. This phenomenon was driven by a combination of the linguistic turn in academia and the rise of identity politics both inside and outside it. These led to attempts to change social reality by changing language, with attempts at making language more culturally inclusive and gender-neutral. These attempts led to a backlash from the right, partly against the attempts to change language, and partly against the underlying identity politics itself. "Political correctness" became a convenient rightwing label for both of these things it rejected.

vision wrote:So funny I forgot to laugh.

Minorities should suck it up so we can be rid of this "political correctness."

tunnelcat wrote:If everyone respected one another, no matter what size, class, creed, race, religion, nationality, gender or sexual orientation, then there would be no need for political correctness.

vision wrote:So funny I forgot to laugh.

Minorities should suck it up so we can be rid of this "political correctness."

woodchip wrote:Wow, I like how you are trying to turn this into a racial cause celebre. And you try to berate Will for his posts.

Will Robinson wrote:

tunnelcat wrote:If everyone respected one another, no matter what size, class, creed, race, religion, nationality, gender or sexual orientation, then there would be no need for political correctness.

Even when we don't act in a civil manner there is no good reason for PC.
It is, by definition, at best, an ulterior motive.
If you need to call for compassion or empathy of respect then call for those things...by name. You can even continue to prosecute hateful disregard for it when real harm is done.

But please let us kill off this cult of faux morality in which celebrity hypocrites appoint themselves the emcees of a continuous ceremony of sanctimony!

flip wrote:I've learned to ignore people like Ferno and Vision. I think there has to be something about them that makes them feel inferior, so they find people they can dump on to feel a sense of empowerment. It's obvious to the person looking from the outside in. Makes me feel sorry for them and I wouldn't even say anything except it's chronic behavior for years now. I have yet to see them in a thread respond with an opposing viewpoint or if they do it is never without trying to demean the other person at the same time. Unless of course the threads where they lick Slick's boots, that's always fun to read . Something obviously emotionally unbalanced about those two.

flip wrote:Eh, maybe I was being a bit too harsh in your case, although I do see you pull the debate down to a personal level at times instead of towards the topic. Instead of responding like "Woody, I don't see how you could say that. Have you considered thus and thus?"

vision wrote: The average post here consists of "Obama is a socialist" or something equally bland. There is no well-thought original writing worthy of serious critique and a severe lack of fact-checking in even the heartiest posts. Inferiority complex? Me? Puh-leaze. We aren't even in the same category. How can I take a writer seriously when every time they are faced with a challenge the defer to launching bible quotes?

On that note, have a nice day everyone!

flip wrote::words:

flip wrote:Let's just do this Ferno, because I am in no way interested in meeting the kind of challenges you present here. So, I recant and next time it happens, I'll point it out. This will have 1 of 2 effects. You will either step in it or go out of your way to avoid it. Last time you stepped in it Either way I get what I want to accomplish with you.

woodchip wrote:You keep talking about well thought out threads but I've yet to see either you or Fern start one. Perhaps you could show us how it is done.

vision wrote:

woodchip wrote:You keep talking about well thought out threads but I've yet to see either you or Fern start one. Perhaps you could show us how it is done.

I did. Once. Here it is again. You abstained from the discussion, as did most others. Tunnelcat jumped in before reading or thinking and flip's only contribution was an unoriginal copy/paste. The only serious thoughts were given by roid. So yeah, that was a pretty good sign to me that this place is an intellectual sinkhole. It is why I treat E&C as entertainment since this forum is a small corner of a video game website.

Feel free to visit that old topic I started and dish out 1000 words* for me to chew on.




* That's the equivalent of a twitter post in academia.