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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (130909)	1/29/2001 2:21:40 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571405

Ted, There are many jokes that are truly funny without having to insult, demean, or threaten another group of people. Had you emigrated to this country at another time you may have been at the brunt of those other jokes that do look for some scapegoat.....preferably human. There is a very strong reason for PC behavior....it is helping us to survive "the melting pot" of the world where cultural diversity rules.....and where nothing really melts together but rather runs off into its respective corners. And if one's English is not accented nor their skin dark nor do they pray with a yamaka or to Mecca, one can still hear those jokes with their scapegoats. So don't knock it......there are strong reasons for PC behavior. I believe it to be an important step in our evolution. This is exactly what I have been saying. What you are saying is a good example of makes me think that the end is near as far as living in free country as free people. The real or pretended thin skinnedness is enslaving us all. You have been converted, everything feels fine to you, but I feel like one of the last survivors of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and I am horrified. Now that's funny....I am not sure what "take my wife" means but what makes you think that freedom of speech means you can say whatever your thinking whenever you want. If you thought your wife was turning into a fat cow, and you told her that, how pleasant do you think it would be around your house? There are things we say freely and there are other things we suppress either out of respect for someone else, or from fear of retribution. All PC behavior does is take it to higher level of awareness. In the end, we will all be better for it. LOL. If my wife was indeed turning into a fat cow, she would know it by looking in the mirror every day. Denying this fact is not a higher level of awareness. It is living a lie, which the Politically Correct movement is all about. Joe