"Peter Aitken" > wrote in
. com:

> "Wayne" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Dog3 <dognospam@adjfkdla;not> wrote in
>> 4:
>>
>> >>> Oh Gawd... I just spit out my OJ. Not politically correct Greg,
>> >>> but funny as hell.
>> >>>
>> >>> Michael
>> >>
>> >> Life was a lot more pleasant and a lot more fun before
>> >> "politically correctness" his this planet. When exactly was
>> >> that, anyway?
>> >>
>> >
>> > I was young. That's how long ago it was.
>> >
>> > Michael
>>
>> Curious, I looked for the origin. This is the beginning of an
>> article which can be found at
>>
>> http://www.ourcivilisation.com/pc.htm
>>
>> "Political Correctness (PC) is the communal tyranny that erupted in
>> the 1980s. It was a spontaneous declaration that particular ideas,
>> expressions and behaviour, which were then legal, should be forbidden
>> by law, and people who transgressed should be punished. It started
>> with a few voices but grew in popularity until it became unwritten
>> and written law within the community. With those who were publicly
>> declared as being not politically correct becoming the object of
>> persecution by the mob, if not prosecution by the state."
>>
>
> It always pays to check into a web site before paying too much
> attention to what it says. If you check out the one you cited it is
> clearly the product of a rather loony individual.
>
> "Political correctness" has been taken too far in many cases, but it
> is worth remembering that its genesis was the notion that one should
> take other people's sensitivities and feelings into account.

Agreed, and I didn't mean to imply that the article was gospel on PC.
The basic precepts of PC were, I suppose, laudible. The extent to which
it has often been carried is lunacy itself.

--
Wayne in Phoenix

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