Arghhhh politicial correctness

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Am I the only one here who gets bothered by it?

Anyone here know any PC terms. I have learned a few and I just learned on today. Rehomeing the pet is now PC for getting rid of the pet


And the rest I know that have became PC:

Merry Christmas=Happy Holiday
Temper tantrums=meltdowns


Any other PCness you know of?

I personally don't see anything wrong with saying "happy holidays" in lieu of "Merry Christmas" because not everybody you come across celebrates Christmas, and it's rather presumptuous to assume otherwise. "Happy Holidays" is an all-inclusive alternative.

Political correctness also drive me crazy as well. I hate it with the passion of a billion dying suns.

Political Correctness= Thought Control
People of Size= Fat People
People of Short Stature= Really Short People (aka Midgets)
People of Orientation=Gay People (What are they, a compass?)
People of (ABC) Descent= Differant Colored Humans (What are they descending from?)


That's all I can think of.

You're right Descartes but it's changes I hate.

Oh yeah and midgets are now called something else. I think it's short people. m***et has now became an insult same as ret*d. Back in my days ret*d and m***et were acceptable to use. I wonder if petite will become an insult or autistic and fore you know it, people start using a new word for them.

I am fat. It's not the words that are the problem but the sentiment behind them. I'd be very happy to fire back at someone who tried to attack me because of my weight… but I fear for my safety if I do so.

I agree. I have had people call me fat, and depending on how it's used, it is either derogatory, or it is meant as a mere fact ( if a doctor stated it in his office.)

Tantrums aren't meltdowns.

Denormalisation, I believe it's called.

I always thought that "m***et" and "ret*d" have always been derogatory. I'm young, so I may be wrong.

It's not necessarily insulting to say that someone is mentally ret*d. The word "ret*d" alone is what is insulting. I don't know why. I suppose it's because the former term sounds more classy.

I doubt that the word "autistic" will ever become insulting because it's an official medical term.

Temper tantrums and meltdowns are two separate things.

I know that but society is now calling tantrums meltdowns now. I remember making a thread about it here one time about an article I read in the Parents magazine and someone said it must be a new PC term now. Parents don't like admitting anymore their kids are having a temper tantrum we now must dummy down the word for them so they feel better? Now everyone is going to think meltdowns are temper tantrums and assume someone is having a tantrum when they get told an autistic child is melting down, get it? Because their minds be stuck on the PC term they won't know the difference between PC meltdown and meltdown.

I personally use ret*d and gay to mean stupid. I never use ret*d to refer to someone with DA anyways. Usually, I just say that they have down-syndrom or (insert disorder here). As for gay, well. Gay never meant homosexual in the first place. Nor did it mean stupid. I'll use gay in two senses, but I usually say homosexual. Anyways, I usually don't refer refer to them with added adjectives. They're people, just the same as everyone. They shouldn't be referred to by their orientation at every mention.

Teachers and parents and doctors used ret*d when I was a child and it's even in my old IEP saying I score in the mildly ret*d range. Now today it seems to become an insult because people hate that word and take it offensively now even if you do use it as a medical word. My mom used the word m***et when I was eight and I asked what it was and she said short adults. Then I heard on Babycenter not too long ago it's now an insult.

Well I guess ret*d is just like the times when idiot stupid and moron were medical words and so were imbecile and dumb. Then people started to misuse those words and then those words became insults eventually and now they no longer mean what they used to mean but the original meanings are still in the dictionary. Even doctors no longer use those words for patients. In other places like the UK and Australia, it seems like doctors have quit using the word ret*d and call it something else like learning disability or cognitive disability or intellectual disability. In the UK it's learning disability and in Australia, it's the other two I have read.

Political Correctness is a contradictory of terms. Politics is seldom correct. I think Political Correctness contradicts Freedom Of Speech. I have a very offensive & crude sense of humor. Political Incorrectness is quit funny

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This American came into my butcher's shop today. "Got any beef jerky?"

"Yes, I've got plenty of beef, but I'm not serving you, you fat c**t!" I replied.

No one takes the piss out of my Parkinson's.

I remember the time when a user here asked if mind blindness was a PC term for selfishness and I thought then she thought those two were the same so she was asking if it's a new word for that. But I realized later on she may have meant if people are saying mind blind when they mean selfish because she was noticing how people were now calling themselves selfish as being mind blinded just like when I read that Parenting article on "meltdowns" but when I read it, they were talking about tantrums. So someone here suggested it was maybe a PC term for that now.

Oh god I hope mind blind isn't PC for selfish.

I realize this sort of thing is easy to misunderstand thinking someone is saying those two are the same when they aren't saying that at all. They just want to know if the word is being misused now as a PC term.