tell me some rediculous polictically correct stories.?

Question

i think this p.c crap is rediculous. like how were supposed to call christmas treees holiday trees? heres an ex. one of my teachers was wearing a tie with santa on it and the public school made him take it off. anyone else have any rediculous stories?

oh yeah and MERRRRY CHRISTMAS.
=)
happy hanukah.
not happy holidays.

uhh robertttt. believe it or not im 12. and i justt think this crap is rediculous.

Answer 1

I hate all the political correctness stuff too. Merry Christmas (aka Happy Holidays) to all people including those who are fat (aka horizontally challenged), short (aka vertically challenged), black (aka African American), white (aka Caucasian) and dumb (aka Intellectually Challenged).

Answer 2

Several years ago the newspaper at my old University adopted a policy of not using ethnic or racial terms to describe criminals in their crime reports.

The editors felt that this type of language perpetuated the stereotype that minorites were criminals, so they instead printed stuff like "two students were robbed at gunpoint by a tall, medium skinned man who spoke with a heavy accent.."

Ironically, the policy backfired as minority student groups complained that the vague language made it sound like anyone not absolutely white was a potential criminal. When the paper reported that a female student was sexually assaulted by a "very dark skinned man," that pretty much put the last nail in that policy's coffin. Women's groups on campus demanded that, in the name of public safety, descriptions of criminals should be as explicit as possible.

The saddest part was that, even after the editors decided to overturn the policy, the University decided that a full Town Hall meeting take place to make sure that everyone was OK with the change. The meeting, not surprisingly, deteriorated into chaos as each student group took the opportunity to push its own agenda rather than discuss the issue at hand.

I have heard (although not confirmed) that there are actually some city newspapers that have adopted and kept this policy. That, if true, would actually be the saddest part of the story.

Answer 3

I've never really experienced any hardcore PC'ers. Although, I do remember in college, after 9/11 the American Military was planning on invading Afghanistan to to hunt down Usama. A group of student protestors, a week or two after 9/11 mind you, were protesting America's hostile attitude and believed all that needed to be done to find Usama was to declare him an international criminal, like once that happened Usama would have gone "Oh, really? Well, I guess I did do wrong, better turn myself in. Sorry everyone, I'm an international criminal now."

It was the most ultra left indoctrinated people I had ever seen up to that point in my life.

Answer 4

In a first year College Class on public presentations the instructor was putting Ideas for a informative speech up on the board in two categories

Good Ideas
and
Other Ideas

Mine was in the Other Ideas category.

Do you know anything about Cheese and the Cheese making process? I didn't, but I do now, and so does the rest of the class, thanks to all the research I did on it just to be stubborn, because she wouldn't call it a bad idea.

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Oh by the way the official manual for reporting race in the US Army is from the 50s and it uses colors to describe race "White, Black, Brown, Yellow" It's mostly ignored today but I had a boss who wanted it don't by the book so no one could challenge it because of all of this political correctness.

Answer 5

The public school needs to re-educate their employees, because that sounds like the choices made by an undereducated employee that got lucky and placed in power.
Either that, or you don't know the real story, but like usual your type comes on here ranting about it.

The perfect example...The people who come on here ranting about affirmitive action, and that it allows minorities to get away with things on the job, and allows less qualified minorities to get the job over more qualified people. This is simply false considering it is the companies who are allowing this to occur, not the law, for the sake of trying to cash in on tax credits.

Answer 6

There was a story going around that Australian department store Santas were being ordered not to say "ho, ho, ho" because it sounded too much like the shortened form of "whore" that got Mr. Imus in trouble.

Turns out to be a total exaggeration, but it is a funny story. (See links below--the first is the erroneous story, and the second is the correction.)

Answer 7

My personal favorites are James Finn Garners reworkings of classic tales: here is the synopsis.

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories and its sequel Once Upon a More Enlightened Time were written by James Finn Garner in 1994 and 1995. Overall, one could say that James Garner's stories are uniquely entertaining because they take the trend of being politically correct and emphasize it to ridiculous proportions in order to show how silly the results can be.

http://www.gwu.edu/~germ701/adaptations/Ben/policorrect.htm

Answer 8

The govt dept THE SKIPTON FUND denies others like me any compensation what soever for ebating hepatitis c given to me in an NHS blood transfusion on the 10th june 1987.This was the same disease that others who were compensated sums up to £100,000 got!!!
WHY didnt we get compensated???? becuase we are classed as natural clearers who beat the disease that has already killled over 1,000 people,we dont get compensated as we were not treated with interferon!
Why werent we treated with interferon because the SKIPTON FUND DOH expects us as patients to diagnose ourselves and check our LFTS!!!
DEPT OF HEALTH AND SKIPTON FUND NOTE I AM NEVER GOING TO STOP CAMPAIGNING FOR MY RIGHTS AND THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS LIKE ME AS YOU ARE BANG OUT OF ORDER!
We were all given the SAME disease yet are discriminated against some get 100,000 others get shown the door its like saying hey we cut off your head but dont worry we have sewed it back on!!
Political correctness gone mad!!
What about the fact that your dirty contaminated blood could have killed me,what about the stigma and disadvantages of having had Hepatitis C???? ALL POLITICALLY CORECTLY FORGOTTEN ABOUT???
This in a country that is supposed to be just and fair???
IT MAKES ME ASHAMED TO BE BRITISH AND I WILL WIN MY FIGHT FOR COMPENSATION POLITICALLY INCORRECT OR NOT SIRS!!!

Answer 9

Is it just me, or do the schools concentrate on crap like this instead of SPELLING and GRAMMAR? At least use "SPELL CHECK" or people will think you are George Bush in disguise.

Answer 10

Yes. Our company now has Holiday Parties instead of Christmas parties.