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Nick_A
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Post: #1  Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:22 pm Post subject: Politcally Correct Lunacy |
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This is a thread to post your favorite examples of politically correct lunacy. I'll begin with one I've just read concerning Home Depot.
As you know it is politically incorrect to publically display your allegiance to the country. After all it would be wrong to insult those intent on its destruction.
So this employee of Home Depot wears a button that says "One nation under God, indivisible." Anyone can see how politically incorrect this is but this employee had the audacity to insist on wearing it and was fired. Of course some people will rise against it and boycott Home Depot but this is small in comparison to the importance of being politically correct and banning such a button that shows support of the Pledge of Allegiance.
http://www.breitbart.tv/man-fired-from-home-depot-over-one-nation-under-god-button/
http://www.wptv.com/content/news/okeechobee/story/Okeechobee-One-nation-under-God-button-Home-Depot/VOULD3LI5UeAoL0dU4jd_w.cspx
Amazing!
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| Post: #2 Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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Oh my god the guy lost his crappy job at home depot, now he can get unemployment and not have to work the crappy job, and sue them too making more money than ever. Poor him. What a great politically correct society we live in.
I'm not sure which is more loony keeping track of politically correct lunacy or the said lunacy it self.
What a great politically correct society we live in.
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| Post: #3 Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Was he fired because it was honoring his country, or was he fired because it was religious? Or were employees at the store not allowed to wear any kind of button or apparel that displays a personal message? For instance, at my job I would be sent home if I wore any kind of shirt except a white, long-sleeved, oxford-style shirt without wrinkles, rips or stains. That's not censorship or political correctness; it's just a way to have a professional, clean, orderly image with the customers.
Anyway, as for political correct lunacy, we all know how political incorrect it is to be an atheist. Recognizing that doing anything but would be political suicide, politicians have consistently been thus forced to proclaim belief in a god and religious values, at least until Stark in 2007. Polls have shown that about 50 percent of Americans would not vote for a well-qualified atheist for president. A 2006 study found that 40% of respondents characterized atheists as a group that did "not at all agree with my vision of American society," and that 48% would not want their child to marry an atheist. In both studies, percentages of disapproval of atheists were above those for Muslims, African-Americans and homosexuals. Apparently, nonbelievers exercising their freedom of religion is very politically incorrect. That's lunacy, IMO.
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| Post: #4 Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:27 am Post subject: |
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| political correctness has also another name: faschism. |
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Nick_A
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| Post: #5 Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Scott wrote: |
Was he fired because it was honoring his country, or was he fired because it was religious? Or were employees at the store not allowed to wear any kind of button or apparel that displays a personal message? For instance, at my job I would be sent home if I wore any kind of shirt except a white, long-sleeved, oxford-style shirt without wrinkles, rips or stains. That's not censorship or political correctness; it's just a way to have a professional, clean, orderly image with the customers.
Anyway, as for political correct lunacy, we all know how political incorrect it is to be an atheist. Recognizing that doing anything but would be political suicide, politicians have consistently been thus forced to proclaim belief in a god and religious values, at least until Stark in 2007. Polls have shown that about 50 percent of Americans would not vote for a well-qualified atheist for president. A 2006 study found that 40% of respondents characterized atheists as a group that did "not at all agree with my vision of American society," and that 48% would not want their child to marry an atheist. In both studies, percentages of disapproval of atheists were above those for Muslims, African-Americans and homosexuals. Apparently, nonbelievers exercising their freedom of religion is very politically incorrect. That's lunacy, IMO. |
I've been thinking how to respond but certain things we have to agree to disagree.
As for me when someone wears a button that says ""One nation under God, indivisible." It is in support of the Pledge of Allegiance. It is the glue that unites the nation as ONE. When it is seen as offensive and it becomes popular to deny this right rather than celebrate it, it is time to take to the hills. The party's over and time to usher in the next variation of socialism.
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| Post: #6 Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| By the title of this thread I thought you were referring to Sarah Palin. |
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| Post: #7 Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:16 pm Post subject: Politically Correct Lunacy |
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I guess we can all agree the Pledge of Allegiance is a promise to be loyal; that is, not to become a traitor and overtly try to overthrow the government. Beyond that we probably differ. My loyalty might be more conditional than that of other folks. My pledge also obligates the government. It is automatically nullified when the government is no longer that which I promised to uphold.
In general, I regard pledges lightly. Kids promise to love and obey parents, wedding adults promise everlasting love, employers promise job security, and political leaders promise whatever the voters want -- all, more often than not, above their ability.
This might make a good subject for a philosophy thread: the value that pledges hold..
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