The issue at hand is if its acceptible to use the term gay when describing anything. 

I myself do not USE gay when referring to anything, but im not going to infringe on someones rights to do so.  I also have no qualms with people posting their thoughts online.   However i DO have to speak up when The PC police keep trying to change things.

You cant use the term midget anymore, it has to be LIttle person,  You cant use disabled you have to say Some alternate version of disabled, now "handycapable" or some other PC term.

PC solutions because someone took offense has equalled in MY view, the Most Horrendous form of public censorship.  IE cant say Merry christmas at some Stores, you have to say happy holidays.  (no im not a christian im agnostic, but still.... cmon seriously?)

Where does it end?

Like george carlin said in one of his famous skits.   IT has to end or your going to end "a male walked into a establishment and said hellow.... thats the joke... at least all you can say anymore."

NOW that said...  There ARE certain things that SHOULD have changed, things said with hateful intentions like "nigger" or other words that imply a HATRED for a people.   THese DO incite hate and SHOULD be wiped from our Verbal dictionarys.  &nb sp; However gay, when spoken by cenk, or many others implys NO dislike of Homosexual people, it IS simply stating "This thing i am speaking of, is definately not for me"  Yet people want to infer that its homophobic/hateful to say, when they demonstrate ignorance by doing it, and rather thin Skin.

and Gypped when you get ripped off?  Lol i never even knew that was in reference to gypsys.  So you mean a common phrase that came when a people were unfairly traded with by gypsys who were the carni folk of the day, is now hateful because its offensive to gypsys..... wow.  

You do realize though that Almost all of our words came from events that needed description, and to edit all of them because they may be somehow offensive....  Assanine.

PC policing is where its gone TOO Far,  STick to hate words, leave everything else alone.  

Hell i have Native american in me, and when I sent my kid to school i heard he now has to sit "kriss cross applesauce" when folding his legs when he sits, because "sitting indian style" was "offensive to native americans" 

how?  .... how the hell was that offensive?  ^ That is what happens when PC police get their way.   Its about one persons oppinion forcing the rest of the world to change their behaviors. 

I find Anna's "i like my men with flavor" offensive to white men, and a lil racist, but am i gonna declare she stop saying it?  

(this reply was a conglomerate of replys to a few people, not just you, sorry i didnt feel like posting 20x)

by Ectheleon on 01/08/2009 01:09:02 PM EST

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