"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.


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Peter Aitken

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