Reply #55: Well GOD FORBID someone on this thread suggest that the manner [View All]

in which we LANGUAGE ourselves both GIVES us our impression of the world and gives others an impression of US and our impression of the world.

Sorry, I completely disagree with all the rebellious attitudes on this thread that DON'T realize that they ARE BEING PC by rebelling against PC...if you want to see group think in action just look at the choir who responded VOID of all thought with a knee-jerk reaction.

If I saw a retarded black midget, I'd say I saw a fucking retarded black midget.

Feel free to say that, as your first amendment rights allow you to do so but if I heard someone say that, I would say, "I HEARD an IGNORANT person who regards themselves as a progressive using language which both DISEMPOWERS the subject of her language and herself."

It's unfortunate because that is probably not true of you.
I am of the OPPOSTIE mindset..I wonder how far we will take the REBELLION to PC which underscores a behavioral problem much more than any reflective enlightenment.

Getting people to THINK about HOW they language their world and what world it creates is a process of enlightenment and creates far different results both in conversations and ACTIONS that accompany those conversations.

Let's look at these two sentences.

"Dad is BOUND to a wheelchair"

"Dad USES a wheelchair"

Notice how they drive your thoughts or interpretation of the person in the wheelchair???

Think about it ..PLEASE.

If we live in a world run by the language of hatred and violence, then why complain that the world is full of hatred and violence?