Getting a little tired of all this politically correct crap!

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
Good rant

 

[GTaudiophile]

Here's a great example:

Hemet High School in Hemet, Calif., is considering eliminating the traditional valedictorian award for the graduating senior with the highest grade point average. Otherwise, some delicate students may suffer a damaging blow to their self-esteem.

 

[phaserx]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Here's a great example:

Hemet High School in Hemet, Calif., is considering eliminating the traditional valedictorian award for the graduating senior with the highest grade point average. Otherwise, some delicate students may suffer a damaging blow to their self-esteem.

seriously, when i read stuff like this, it makes me want to move to Canada or someplace outside the USA.. God Bless the USA and all (OOPS SORRY TO OFFEND ANYBODY), but it just sucks lately..

 

[gopunk]

Everyone knows about Christopher Columbus who first came to the Americas, but hardly anyone knows about all the Native Americans he killed, or about the first trade ship he sent back to Europe was all slaves.

isn't this the opposite of PC?

agree with rest of post though.

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: Roger
CheapArse

Feel better now ?

why yes, yes i do

 

[MercenaryForHire]

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[UglyCasanova]

I can post some pr0n.

 

[Dark54555]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Here's a great example:

Hemet High School in Hemet, Calif., is considering eliminating the traditional valedictorian award for the graduating senior with the highest grade point average. Otherwise, some delicate students may suffer a damaging blow to their self-esteem.

do you expect more of the left coast?

 

[nater]

For anyone who's interested, there's in article in the March Atlantic Monthly called "The Language Police" that dicusses the guidelines textbook editors/writers/publishers are given for being politically correct in their books. It's written by Diane Ravitch, a "historian of education and Research Professor of Education at New York University. The glossary excerpted here will appear in her new book, The Language Police, to be published in April by Knopf."

 

[Nitemare]

The Vikings and Chinese made it here 2 centuries before Columbus.

 

[Dark54555]

here's some good anti-PC reading

The New Thought Police

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
The Vikings and Chinese made it here 2 centuries before Columbus.

I remember reading an article that seemd pretty convincing claiming that the Chinese explorers did come to the Western Hemisphere before even the Vikings.

 

[BooGiMaN]

when my kids get old enough to start school i wonder if i can sue to get rid of soem of this politically correct crap.

You know soem schools dont allow dodge ball or tag anymore cuz they feel that the kid that is 'it' becomes victimized and feels like a victim..

im gonna make sure that my kids dont go to these schools...

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Nitemare
The Vikings and Chinese made it here 2 centuries before Columbus.

I remember reading an article that seemd pretty convincing claiming that the Chinese explorers did come to the Western Hemisphere before even the Vikings.

This probably wasn't the one that you read but here it is anyway. It makes a good read.

 

[olds]

Just goes to show you what I know. I didn't even know Columbus came to America.
North America anyway.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN

You know soem schools dont allow dodge ball or tag anymore cuz they feel that the kid that is 'it' becomes victimized and feels like a victim..

Whoa, that's just nuts

I wonder if this is a universal trait or just a few isolated screwballs.

 

[BooGiMaN]

Originally posted by: wizardLRU

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN

You know soem schools dont allow dodge ball or tag anymore cuz they feel that the kid that is 'it' becomes victimized and feels like a victim..

Whoa, that's just nuts

I wonder if this is a universal trait or just a few isolated screwballs.

i dunno but if my kids where in school and they went to that school id be goign nuts..and theyd def hear from me...what the point of isolatign outr kids from the real world..they need to learn how to handle that fact they will not always win..they will not always know the right answer etc etc

Im truly afraid what the next generatiosn society will be like, pretty soon we will be a land of eloi in a world or morlocks

 

[friedpie]

Originally posted by: Dark54555
here's some good anti-PC reading

The New Thought Police

I have that book. A good read.

A teacher at the University of North Carolina had to resign recently because she used the n word to make a point in class. She was teaching a class, and as a way to relate to the students how far things had progress since her days as a student in the '60s, she said that back then it was common for people to refer to the NAACP as "N*ggers Aint Acting Like Colored People." The black kids were so upset they demanded she resign. Over 250 students went to a campus meeting to demand her resignation. Jeez, these people are supposed to be taught to think critically, not emotionally. The woman was relating her experience from the '60s, not calling black people n*ggers. See, I am afraid to even type the word as is for fear of some sort of emotional reprisal.

 

[StageLeft]

I agree with the first post.

I heard of a school district recently that is changing their scoring such that the lowest mark is a 50%. You heard that right. It's impossible, no matter how brain dead you are, to get less than a 50% on anything.

I'm only 25 so I can't say how trends are going and I know that old people love to go "In the good old days such and such", but I don't believe that the sort of whiney, blaming, me-me-me attitudes that we see in so much of the populous was so prevalent years ago. People sueing Mcdonalds because they got fat; everyone looking to blame somebody else.

And you treat kids like infinitely fragile crystal glasses and when they're dropped the first time they'll shatter.

 

[yowolabi]

Originally posted by: wizardLRU

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Nitemare
The Vikings and Chinese made it here 2 centuries before Columbus.

I remember reading an article that seemd pretty convincing claiming that the Chinese explorers did come to the Western Hemisphere before even the Vikings.

This probably wasn't the one that you read but here it is anyway. It makes a good read.

African travelers also arrived thousands of years before Columbus.

Edit: See "Olmec"

 

[imported_Mike]

edited first post to reflect that columbus did not come to americas first....see, i have been brainwashed by shady textbooks.

 

[BooGiMaN]

Originally posted by: yowolabi

Originally posted by: wizardLRU

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Nitemare
The Vikings and Chinese made it here 2 centuries before Columbus.

I remember reading an article that seemd pretty convincing claiming that the Chinese explorers did come to the Western Hemisphere before even the Vikings.

This probably wasn't the one that you read but here it is anyway. It makes a good read.

African travelers also arrived thousands of years before Columbus.

Edit: See "Olmec"

what i have read and seen seems to support olmec artifacts have asian influences not african

 

[Dark54555]

Originally posted by: friedpie

Originally posted by: Dark54555
here's some good anti-PC reading

The New Thought Police

I have that book. A good read.

I still need to pick up Bias, Slander, and Shakedown, among others. Too much to read for class, not enough time to read for fun.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: CheapArse
edited first post to reflect that columbus did not come to americas first....see, i have been brainwashed by shady textbooks.

Rage against the machine!

 

[BooGiMaN]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: CheapArse
edited first post to reflect that columbus did not come to americas first....see, i have been brainwashed by shady textbooks.

Rage against the machine!

if i recall correctly columbus never landed in america...he actually didnt set foot in what we now call america until much much later