Why did you take the (e) out of the word screw? Were you being politically correct?
REH ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:58 AM Subject: RE: [Futurework] Political correctness is compaible with economic predation :: Microsoft and the demise of language > > Brad, > > Thank God political correctness came to the > rescue of American capitalism when corporations > began their substantive "race to the bottom" > for American workers! Wit political corerctness, > corporations can both "scr-w" the workers and > at the same time prove how much they respect > their dignity, etc. > > arthur > > well said. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 7:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Futurework] Political correctness is compaible with economic > predation :: Microsoft and the demise of language > > > Microsoft has released a press release apologizing for > having included a font in their Office product that > includes a swastika symbol. They said the font came > from a Japanese source. They are providing a program to > remove the offending symbol. > > So how are we to comunicate about evils without > labels for them? > > Microsoft has never in my experience done *anything* > as enthusiastically and expediently as removing > this symbol. The multinational corporation doth > cooperate too hastily? > > I have not been able to find the symbol. DSoes anyone have > the Book Symbol 7 font in their MS Office? If yes > I would appreciate a picture of the offending symbol > (or the whole font. I would no teven be surprsied if the > smybol was the Buddhist not the Nazi symbol (the two are > "reversed", I believe). Nothing woiuld please me more than > for a buddhist to accuse Microsoft of anti-Buddhist discrimination > if the symbol they removed was not the Nazi one. Computer > programmers and managers and entrepreueurs have sufficiently > little "culture" in genreal that it is entirely > plausible they mistook one symbol for the other. > > Meanwhile,Edward Tufte has pulished a little > pamphlet analyzing the negative effects > of MS PowerPoint on persons' thinking. > > Thank God political correctness came to the > rescue of American capitalism when corporations > began their substantive "race to the bottom" > for American workers! Wit political corerctness, > corporations can both "scr-w" the workers and > at the same time prove how much they respect > their dignity, etc. > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
