While in Mexico we were chilling at our pool and some "very conservatives" were down there too, hangin out. They said a few things that got one of my "very liberal" things upset so he left...interesting.
Eventually the story went something about Dan (very liberal) was offended because Scott (very conservative) said that they got "jewd" by the taxi driver.
Dan(jewish) went on to say that those guys should be more tolerant...Ted(moderate left) & I (moderate right) argued that he should be tolerant of their words...and also that "jewd" just means that they got gypd (Dan had mentioned the original meaning of that earlier in the day).
It was fun getting him to realize that to be tolerant you have to accept both sides of the issues, always...otherwise you're intolerant.
I wish it was easier to convince other people that to be tolerant you have to be COMEPLETELY tolerant vs. just tolerant of one side (which isnt tolerance at all). Dan still needs work on his tolerance though...Ted's sunglasses got scratched & he said that was gay...Dan replied "it sucks, but its not gay"...trying to be all P.C. (politically correct), but failing miserably.
Later Dan told his sis a story about some other gay thing.
MOVIE ATTENDANT (MA):Can I help you?
Kid: Can I get 2 tickets?
MA: $14
Kid: I thought it was $10
MA: $10 is day showing, $14 is night showing
Kid: Thats gay
MA: No it isnt, I'm gay
</stupid story>
Actually, they're both right, wouldn't you say? The term gay doesnt mean what it used to at all. If you wanted to be uber PC gay would mean happy, homosexual would mean homo, & yeah. But I think that the kid was right in using gay as a derogatory term...the meanings of words change always.
What do you all think about this whole tolerating issues/PC terms thing?
Personally, I'm not one to stand for PC at all.
And I never use "that's gay" to describe something, because whenever I hear someone else use it, it registers in my mind as like "intelligence -10."
Quote from: leet_muffin on August 06, 2006, 04:02:00 PM
Personally, I'm not one to stand for PC at all.
And I never use "that's gay" to describe something, because whenever I hear someone else use it, it registers in my mind as like "intelligence -10."
Political correctness sucks.
That's gay.
Quote from: leet_muffin on August 06, 2006, 04:02:00 PM
Personally, I'm not one to stand for PC at all.
And I never use "that's gay" to describe something, because whenever I hear someone else use it, it registers in my mind as like "intelligence -10."
eh, its slang, slang works fine in the right situations
Quote from: deadly7 on August 06, 2006, 04:03:10 PM
Political correctness sucks.
Yeah. More or less my point
Quote from: leet_muffin on August 06, 2006, 04:02:00 PM
Personally, I'm not one to stand for PC at all.
here.
Quote from: deadly7 on August 06, 2006, 04:03:10 PM
That's gay.
Intelligence -10. Funny that it could effect you
before you even said it.
What if it really is gay? I personally would say: "Wow that's fucking retarded."
I cant see ticket prices being happy or homosexual...so I think in this case gay means "dumb"
How can a ticket price be retarded? Does it have a mind?
By being PC my friend is being unPC (which amuses me to no end).
Even with that whole "jewd" thing...like 2 minutes after we finished talkin about how it wasn't offensive he said "hot bitches" (regarding girls that were dancing at the strip club) infront of a female friend...to me that's MUCH more offensive than saying "jewd"