What's more politically correct? Atlanta's decision to reward a feminist vandal, who prefixed "Men at Work" signs with a spraypainted "Wo," by replacing the offending signs with ones that say "Workers Ahead"? Or, the demands for an apology from a Dallas county commissioner and a judge because of an observation from a white commissioner that the traffic-ticket collections office "has become a black hole" for paperwork. "Excuse me!," an offended commissioner retorted. The inefficient bureaucracy had become a "white hole." One is tempted to chalk it up to PC hysteria, if only the word hysteria wasn't so offensive to the gods of political correctness.
How stupid do you have to be to confuse 'black hole' with a racial slur? I'm ashamed, but not surprised, that this happened in my town.
Either way, there is an all out assault going on against heterosexual white men in this country.
Reminds me of a joke we used to make in college, back when we wrongly figured the whole PC thing would be over with soon. If somone was offered coffee with cream and asked for it "just black," his/her PC friend was to chime in with the correction, "Not 'just black'--'black and proud!'"
So when does someone stand up and say 'screw!' to some nitwit who takes offense when a person uses the term 'blackhole' as a descriptive term when referring to a place where something disappears?
Bottom line is that EVERYBODY, no matter what color ethnicity or persuasion should have no tolerance for ignorance.
See, this is what it's come to: we've allowed super sensitivity and political correctness to trump common sense while certain connotations are accepted and can be used as social clubs.
Well, these people should be more niggardly in their dispensation of such accusactions.
That was another good one. The only way to successfully combat ignorance, is to first try to educate and then dismiss those too thick to be edumacated.
One must strive to not use Unwords when utilizing Newspeak.
Be well,
Sponge
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This happened to me actually. I referred to a project as falling into a "Black Hole" and a colleague piped up and said, "Hey, what is that supposed to mean?" To which I replied, "STFU, you tard. It's a scientific term!".
Then I had to explain how "tard" is short for mentally retarded and is a medical term but he still got all bent out of shape anyway.
That is a classic. LOL.
