On Tuesday, Nov 11, 2003, at 20:25 US/Eastern, Clay Blackwell wrote:
And one of these days... it will be politically incorrect
to slur the left-handed any more than it is to say gone
south or tell an ethnic joke or tell the dumb blonde jokes.
The minorities have always been subject to derision, whether
it's politically correct or not. Face it. There are
differences! Vive la
Fortunately, we're still permitted to *celebrate* the differences, even
if we're no longer permitted to make fun of them. The day will come,
when even *noticing* the difference will be a no-no, at least in
public... The excess of PC is one (though not only) reason my
subterrenean joke list (called smut for ease, but not always dirty)
exists and thrives, with 40 members of it belonging to chat (the
non-chat membership is 17).
OTOH (this is a Libra speaking g)... Having to knuckle down and to
curb one's dislike of the diffent, even if only in public, is not
such a bad thing... I've seen what happened (in places like Bulgaria or
Yugolsavia, for example, once the communist system disintegrated), when
the centuries-old enmities were permitted to *surface* (and boil over),
under the guise of free speech and democracy, and it wasn't pretty...
I guess I'll continue to keep my own counsel on what's right and what
isn't. And, if I err... Well, I *did* say I have problems with
left-right, no?
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Tamara P Duvall
Lexington, Virginia, USA
Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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