Comments on: One phrase is causing the destruction of the United States https://the-orbit.net/progpub/2015/08/09/one-phrase-is-causing-the-destruction-of-the-united-states/ Thu, 13 Aug 2015 02:16:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.6 By: FunnyDiva https://the-orbit.net/progpub/2015/08/09/one-phrase-is-causing-the-destruction-of-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1989 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 02:16:51 +0000 http://www.theshoopsroost.com/?p=4315#comment-1989 scrolling down without reading it all (I will, I promise!) to send out a big, fat
FUCK you, yes, Fuck YOU to Jerry fucking Seinfeld.
I’m GLAD I never got into your stupid TV show about nothing.

Asshat.

]]> By: cicely https://the-orbit.net/progpub/2015/08/09/one-phrase-is-causing-the-destruction-of-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1988 Mon, 10 Aug 2015 01:48:25 +0000 http://www.theshoopsroost.com/?p=4315#comment-1988 Full Disclosure—it used to piss the hell outta me, too.  Then came the Great Sucking of the Knees, and a forced change in perspective.

I still don’t see any good excuse for someone to change their baby in the parking lot, and just dump the dirty diaper onto the asphalt, though.    That’s just nasty.

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]]> By: cicely https://the-orbit.net/progpub/2015/08/09/one-phrase-is-causing-the-destruction-of-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1987 Mon, 10 Aug 2015 01:44:28 +0000 http://www.theshoopsroost.com/?p=4315#comment-1987 and flying my groceries home straight outta the exit.  Or tossing my purchases onto the teleportation plate before popping myself home. This is not that world.)]]> (Of course, in a perfect world, the situation would not arise, because I would be stridin’ easy in my super exoskeleton, pushing my cart to the rack with a big smile on my face.  Or, possibly, bypassing the need for a shopping cart at all, by simply hooking up a little trailer to my Hoverchair10,000™ and flying my groceries home straight outta the exit.  Or tossing my purchases onto the teleportation plate before popping myself home.

This is not that world.)

]]> By: Tony! https://the-orbit.net/progpub/2015/08/09/one-phrase-is-causing-the-destruction-of-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1986 Mon, 10 Aug 2015 01:41:44 +0000 http://www.theshoopsroost.com/?p=4315#comment-1986 In reply to cicely.

Thanks for the reminder, cicely, that I might not have enough information to make a blanket condemnation of anything (in this case, people who don’t return carts to the proper location). I will lodge that away for future reference and try to make sure I’m more precise in my criticisms of people.

]]> By: cicely https://the-orbit.net/progpub/2015/08/09/one-phrase-is-causing-the-destruction-of-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1985 Mon, 10 Aug 2015 01:37:39 +0000 http://www.theshoopsroost.com/?p=4315#comment-1985 “Politically Correct” often comes bundled with “Persecution of Christians”—they’re both based on the notion that “respect” and “tolerance” are zero-sum games; if they must give respect to and tolerate people that are out of agreement with them, then, somehow, they are being “robbed” of their due respect and tolerance.

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(As an aside, I would like to offer a brief comment to the shopping-carts-at-parking-spaces annoyance….

If I am using a shopping cart to assist my walking to my car—because my knees are Made of Suck and FAIL—I cannot then walk it to the designated rack.

Can not.

It is not, physically, possible.

Because, then, I would be stranded at the rack, unable to make it back to my car; and also unable to remain standing at the rack, for that matter.  Alackaday and alas; what am I to do?

This is obviously not going to be the case for every instance of Abandoned Cart Syndrome, because the world is, indeed, somewhat overstocked with assholes.  Still, plz to be sparing a thought for us outliers?)

]]> By: Tony! https://the-orbit.net/progpub/2015/08/09/one-phrase-is-causing-the-destruction-of-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1984 Sun, 09 Aug 2015 17:31:18 +0000 http://www.theshoopsroost.com/?p=4315#comment-1984 In reply to Beatrice.

Beatrice:
Nice to know that ‘PC’ is in the midst of destroying other countries as well. I wonder which ones will disintegrate first.

]]> By: Beatrice https://the-orbit.net/progpub/2015/08/09/one-phrase-is-causing-the-destruction-of-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1983 Sun, 09 Aug 2015 16:43:22 +0000 http://www.theshoopsroost.com/?p=4315#comment-1983 It’s not just United States that this phrase is causing the destruction of. I can confirm that it has been imported elsewhere, and is used just as ridiculously.

]]> By: YOB https://the-orbit.net/progpub/2015/08/09/one-phrase-is-causing-the-destruction-of-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1982 Sun, 09 Aug 2015 16:39:12 +0000 http://www.theshoopsroost.com/?p=4315#comment-1982 It’s a silencing/marginalizing tactic.

 

 

]]> By: Saad https://the-orbit.net/progpub/2015/08/09/one-phrase-is-causing-the-destruction-of-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1981 Sun, 09 Aug 2015 14:34:45 +0000 http://www.theshoopsroost.com/?p=4315#comment-1981 Agreed. And people who say political correctness will also refer to the lives of non-(cis/straight/white men) people as “special interests”.

It’s all the same. I wish the term would just die out. Like you recently said, it’s called treating people with equal respect. Why use a bullshit term for it that has such a negative meaning thanks to the privileged class?

]]> By: llewelly https://the-orbit.net/progpub/2015/08/09/one-phrase-is-causing-the-destruction-of-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1980 Sun, 09 Aug 2015 13:34:55 +0000 http://www.theshoopsroost.com/?p=4315#comment-1980 It’s also a remarkably dishonest phrase. It implies people are being require to follow certain rules for pure political gain But, as Rush Limbaugh proved by using the phrase very frequently starting in the early 1990s and continuing up to the present, it’s quite possible for someone to have a long, and highly politically influential career built primarily on doing the direct opposite. It’s terrible but true: in our culture, there is political advantage to be gained by DISrespecting marginalized groups. (It’s true Rush eventually got brought down by a long and dedicated activist campaign. But that wasn’t easy … and he still was a huge influence for well over 20 years.)

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