PC-ness (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

>From the "You Can't Win in a PC World" Dept.:


http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Russian-ice-dance-tribute-to-Aborigines-offensiv?urn=oly,215206

I hope this post doesn't offend any person of indigenous Australian descent
(really!), but if it does it just proves my dismal point.

JL
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> You guys need to worry.
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> Somewhere someone is angry.  Someone with a toehold on logic. Someone with
> Net access. Someone....
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> Dave has the most to worry about.  Angry clueless white guys are too
> clueless.
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> Angry dead people are zombies.
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> JL
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> P.S.: "Guy" really means "freaky-looking weirdo or or sucker."  This word
> is
> sexist and must be chopped from the language.  There's something about
> "zombie" I don't like either.
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Ann Burlingham <ann at burlinghambooks.com
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> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
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> > > If a dead person tells you that he is offended, please let the rest of
> > > us know.
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> > > > Recently, I made reference to dying as going to the "happy hunting
> > > > grounds."
> > > > Is this, on the PC-unPC dichotomy, being insensitive?  I worry.
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> > If I talk about Clueless WhiteGuy behavior, is it insensitive? I worry.
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