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I\'m going to keep it short because I\'m updating my sprite comic archives.

Anyways, you try to be politically correct so you don\'t hurt peoples\' feelings. Sometimes people go overboard and say stuff like \"African-American-Anglo-Saxo-You-Know-Whatever-ians\" when the person you\'re talking to wouldn\'t mind if you called him black or brown or puce. Sometimes people don\'t care enough and you get stuff like:

\"What kind of \'ese\' are you?\"
\"Excuse me?\"
\"Oh you know, Chinese, Japanese, Cantonese?\"

Anyways, I think one should try to be safe rather than sorry and go for something not patronizing and yet not overboard.

Just to say something about the male and female situation, one thing I cant stand is the equalization debate.

As most people know, it was a major broblem in many problems that women were not treated equal, in work or sosial status. That changed and MOST places this is hardly a problem.

Now I support equalization, but what I DON\'T support are feminists and masculists. I wached tv the other day, and a comerital for Idol was on. There was a girl being asked why she wanted to win, and she replied \"I think a woman should win this year\". This might not be the best egsample, but think about it. Feminists and masculists talk loudly about their gender and wants everybody to hear them. Where did the equalety go? One time I was at a political meeting, and one of the parties were getting votes for being an all feminist party. Now I know I\'m hacking a bit more down on the feminists now, Masculists do many supid things as well, but I am focusing on being equal, and at my home, feminists get much more respect than they deserve.

Take this example that happined a few weeks ago: A hospital was in need of new nurses, but they had to few male ones so they made an ad about it in the paper, 2 days later the feminist party was on their necks! However a month ago, a mechanic shop set up an ad for female workers and they were praised.

All people want to be treated equally, but masculists and femineists aint making it any better. If political correctness is there not to hurt anyone, why do they support people that do?

I am sorry if I offended anyone, or if I was off topic. *runs away*

I agree with you about the feminist thing, Snakeman. That\'s why I never disclose my gender. For I\'ve been at art sites where wonderful artists were looked down upon because of their gender. They weren\'t looking at the art, they were looking at what sex the person was and judging them.

Now alright, I\'m going to be flamed here or something, probably.. But I was just wondering. We have BET right? Black Entertainment Television. Because \"every other channel\" is White Entertainment Television. That\'s obviously untrue, I have yet to see an entire network with all white folk in every acting position, cartoon or not.

And when black comedians do stand up, what is one of their most popular skits? The ol \"white people do this, but black people do THIS\" thing. If I were to do stand up (yes, I\'m as pale as Hello Kitty) and do the same thing, but reversed...I\'d get booed off or even worse. WHY? Why has it become illegal (not technically.. XD) to make fun of \'minorities\' if your skin happens to be light?

Equal rights is bull. Political correctness is fine to a point..I don\'t mind the \'African American\' thing, or the \'don\'t call them mexican, they\'re latino\' thing. But when it comes down to \'he can\'t be arrested because the cop who pulled him over doesn\'t know Spanish, therefore the guilty party didn\'t know his rights\'...that\'s just unfair to everyone else.

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wow! I did not expect such a good response to my post.:eek:

I am glad you understand what I was trying to say *thanks hollow and cossack*

To start off, I have many friends with different backgrounds. I never see them as Indian or African, or black for that matter. To me they are just friends I have known for some time. Since there is no segnificant difference betweene us mentaly, we dont think of the colour difference.

However, when I meet someone I have never met before with a different colour or the likes, that is what one thends to think about. Some people don\'t know how to behave infront of that person cos\' there are all these rules about not to descriminate and be rude.

That is why a lot of times, at least at my school, the teachers tend to act strange when there is an asian or african in our class. This might be more common than I think it is, but I\'m just mentioning it.

But to really awnser what you said Windrider: Reverse racism is not only in the form of the colour conflict or the gender, but all over the place. (not that im saying you were\'nt mentioning them all). Here is a prime example: I come from a large famely with 2 cars and a large house. When people find out where I live, they think I am some kind of rich snob rolling in money. Personally, I dont own squat! I hardly even HAVE money, but due to the fact that the person I\'m speaking to has little money, he can use that as an exuse to mock the \"more fortunate\" willest it is him dicriminate people tend to tease.

I can\'t stand beeing thrown my life straight in the face becouse my pairents are good workers. ( I think I got my point right....)

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There was a thing that my pastor read around Christmas time that made fun of Political correctness.

I don\'t remember any of them word for word, but there was a list of Christmas Songs, but written in a Politically correct way. There was one for \"We Three Kings\" about the three wisemen, but each of the words was exchanged for a word that was more scientific, and less likely to offend someone.

Some of them were really kind of funny.

The three wisemen may not have been men since they are referred to as \'magi\' and that doesn\'t imply gender. It has been generally accepted that they are men but were they really?

Just something to think about.

Political correctness. Something I\'ve found myself questioning many a time...

Put simply, you can\'t live with it, and you can\'t live without it. I\'m certain we can all see that \"political correctness\" isn\'t always as just as we want it to be. But sadly, I\'m afraid an even larger and more consequential justice would be drawn from not having it. Certainly we all know that slavery was not a good descision. We all know that people of all races, genders, and religions deserve just as much as the next guy. But sadly, because there was so much tension in the past, all races have sort of been pitted against eachother. Because of this, the formerly supressed want payback. The idealistic way of looking at the situation is that tensions will melt away, and all races will trust eachother as it is meant to be. But, of course, this is merely idealistic. The truth is, we are tense towards one another. And we could remain this way for any number of years.

We can\'t live with it, and we can\'t live without. Either way we would choose to go with the subjects of political correctness, someone is bound to come out angry.

Pardon me if this is not my best debating ever. I\'ve been sick for the past few days.:sick: