We want YOU...for the PC Police!

[Danger Mouse]

Are you...
...easily offended by just about anything?
...thin-skinned?
...determined to eliminate everything from your life that might be in some way offensive for you?
Do you...
...want everyone to think EXACTLY like you do?
...think 'Happy Feet' is a racist film?
...think that 'douche bag' is an insult to women everywhere?
...want to live in an echo chamber where all you hear is your own voice?
...find everything offensive? I mean...EVERYTHING.
Would you be willing to...
...post threads demanding that people conform to a behavior system that doesn't offend you?
...block anyone who doesn't agree with you in any way?
...angrily argue with (and insult!) anyone who might in some way be making some sort of vague argument that might on some distant planet in some distant galaxy be construed by a very hypersensitive individual as being the slightest hint of an insult

IF YOU ANSWERED YES TO THESE QUESTIONS, THAN CONGRATULATIONS!!

THE PC POLICE JUST MIGHT BE FOR YOU!!!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Hey, now.

I think some of those nuts give PC police an unfair name.

[Danger Mouse]

2. Agreed. This is a special DU Branch of the PC Police...

Political Correctness in its mildest form is harmless.
Taken to extremes, as it often is on DU, it becomes absolutely ludicrous.

[idgiehkt]

3. good writing.

the douchebag thing, for me, is just stupid and juvenile. I cringe whenever I hear someone like Jon Stewart use the term, because I think it's beneath him. I assume it's supposed to be an insult, because it's thought of as something gross because it goes in a vagina...which really doesn't make sense to me as much as some men claim to love eating pussy and intercourse. I'm just kind of in :shrug: mode with that.

[Danger Mouse]

4. Yeah, I mean, it is pretty juvenile...I only like saying it because

I like the way it sounds...but when I think about it is pretty gross.
Men like their immature scatalogical insults.

[idgiehkt]

6. wrong hole.

that would be enema bag.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. Well, yeah, sophomoric humor is usually pretty juvenile.

[idgiehkt]

16. I get the juvenile part

it's the funny part that is missing for me. :shrug:

It's strange, because I can read page after page of stuff on 'overheard in new york' and laugh until I cry, but that one went right over my head. I think it's context or something.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

22. the funny part?

It's bathroom humor and it's pronounced strangely.

Like I said. Sophomoric.

[idgiehkt]

34. bathroom humor

lol. That's a good term, I guess.

Pronounced funny. Doooooooosh. Kinda. It used to drive me nuts when Manfred Man's Earth Band used to slaughter that lyric in Springsteen's 'Blinded by the Light' by singing "wrapped up like a doooosh, another runner in the night." I think a whole generation of kids grew up scratching their heads about why there is a douche in that song. If they'd have left the original lyric in there, which was "cut loose like a deuce", it might have made more sense. Just free-associating.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

37. It's like the gag...

What sound does it make when a vinegar truck runs into a water truck?

Of course, I guess it helps the humor when you're giggly, stoned, and twelve.

[idgiehkt]

42. giggly, stoned and twelve

:rofl:

I would die if I found out I was the only one in the lounge that wasn't. Thank God for pic threads.

[trof]

9. IBTL

Made it.
Whew.
:popcorn:

[Courtesy Flush]

18. Yes, the douchebag thing is so lame

Wait. I didn't mean to insult lame... er physically challen... no, alternately blessed... um, no crippled people.

What douchebag came up with this lame PC crap to start with?!!!1!

[idgiehkt]

49. that is hysterical

you made me choke...

"I didn't mean to insult crippled people."

:rofl:

great, something else to have to think about...

[Courtesy Flush]

63. I can say it, but you can't

I'm crippled myself. I embrace the word. I really hate the alternatives, especially "disabled" which is about as offensive as you can get. I'm the most abled person I know!!!1! Don't tell me I'm not albe!!!!1!!!1!!!!1111!!111111

I'm able.... but I'm also crippled. Two different things.

[idgiehkt]

69. wow, I didn't know that disabled is offensive

how do you feel about 'differently abled'?

I don't know, I guess if I had a physical disability I would prefer crippled as well. Not sure.

And I meant your using lame in that context, btw.

I don't get offended when people say 'that's so gay' but others I respect really do, so I defer on that issue. We are all individuals, I guess.

[Danger Mouse]

72. My stepfather (muscular dystrophy) used to call himself a gimp.

I found that kind of offensive.

[Courtesy Flush]

81. It's all crap!

I'm crippled! Got that? Not differently abled. Not disabled (especially not that). I'm just a one-legged, no hips, limping, short gimp.

It's okay to say it... Just make sure you've got the proper respect in your tone! Dammit! I work hard at being crippled, and I'm not taking any shit from anybody!

I climb scaffolding and float sheetrock, and do woodwork, and sail a sailboat.. and that's just my hobbies!

Step aside! Cripples coming through!!1!1!!

[Danger Mouse]

83. My hero!!

:rofl: :rofl:

[Taverner]

30. I don't think thats it

It deals with human waste, much like a colostomy bag, or a catheter bag.

Calling someone an enema is similar.

[idgiehkt]

55. well

biologically speaking, there is no waste, and in fact douching is unhealthy and came out of a long historically dark period where people thought of the vagina as unclean and sinful. It has a balance of bacteria that can be disturbed by douching and cause more problems. It would be the same as mixing semen with vinegar and water...it still wouldn't be a waste product.

[Taverner]

60. Yes douching is unhealthy

[Courtesy Flush]

5. That's the most offensive post I've seen on DU

Sign me up!!!1!

:rofl:

[trof]

7. Extra butter?

:popcorn:
:-)

[Danger Mouse]

10. Yeah, but light on the salt. I don't care for salt, really.

[trof]

36. But it's sea salt.

That's really really good for you.
They say.
;-)

[Danger Mouse]

39. Maybe a little...I just don't like the taste of salt.

I know, I'm weird. It can be double deep fried, wrapped in lard, and tripple deep fried...but put a single grain of salt on it, and I'm spittin it out!

[trof]

45. OK, how about a little Mrs. Dash?

Only herbs and spices.
Just tastes a little like salt.
But not much.

Maybe some Molly McButter.
I LOVE chemicals!

[Danger Mouse]

50. Ah, the American diet...chemlicals and tons of fat...

with all the chemicals we ingest i'm surprised we don't glow in the dark

[LostinVA]

11. IBTL -- but GREAT FUCKING POST

Some little minds on here are soooo blocking everyone who disagrees with them.

Hear that? Yeah, I know you do.

[trof]

14. BEATCHA!

:-)

[Danger Mouse]

17. IBTL? What's that me? Me feel stupid...

[LostinVA]

23. in before the lock

The MOds will soooo lock this.

[Danger Mouse]

25. I know, but I SOOOO had to do this...let's have lots of fun...

=D

[LostinVA]

28. I love your OP!!!

[Danger Mouse]

33. *bows*

thank you, ma'am =)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

12. ...

[omega minimo]

13. You want to walk the walk, not just talk the talk, of your Dem/prog/liberal values & respect people?

Or not.

[Danger Mouse]

15. There's a limit.

I have trouble respecting Scientologists as well, but we won't go there right now, lol...

[omega minimo]

43. how're we sposed to tell anti-"PC" types from freepers and dittoheads?

[Danger Mouse]

46. Simple. As I specified in an earlier post...I'm not totally 'anti-pc'

I just think it gets carried way too far.
There are people out there who think differently than we do. Even on DU, we have conflicting opinions, sometimes very SHARPLY conflicting opinions.
Ever read the R/T forum? It's like a permanant flamewar. Every other post is offensive to somebody.
I'm just saying that it's kind of silly to expect to live in a world where noone says anything offensive around you. It's not going to happen.

[omega minimo]

54. I don't mean you-- I mean in general.

[Danger Mouse]

59. In general? I don't know, really.

I think in general, freepers and dittoheads refuse to listen to views which are different from theirs, become angry very easily, and frequently substitute insults for legitimate argument.

[omega minimo]

75. Right-- so when folks substitute anti-"PC" insults for legitimate argument

how're we sposed to tell them from freepers and dittoheads?

[Danger Mouse]

78. I don't know, really, like I said before...

Typical freepers and dittoheads try to stifle disagreement and prefer to not have any conflicting opinions around them.

[omega minimo]

80. .

:spray:

all right--

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

96. I know some "liberals" who do the same thing. They're very sad people.

[LostinVA]

97. Yup -- weird

[Danger Mouse]

100. Indeed they are. Indeed they are.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

101. Yeah, well...

They just talk the talk.

[Renew Deal]

106. And get booted off DU in a hurry.

[Renew Deal]

105. Are anti-choice, pro-gun, pro-death penalty, anti gay marriage DUers automatically freepers?

Or Dittoheads? Everyone is different, with different ideas and backgrounds. I prefer to discuss than silence dissent.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

51. If only there were a way to tell the difference...

between anti-PC types from freepers and dittoheads.

Now, let's think. Freepers and dittoheads are disruptors, right? That is, they like to stifle discussion, right?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Psst...I think some people have projection issues.

Not you, but someone who wants to walk the walk and talk the talk.

[jpgray]

21. See post #20

:patriot:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. .

:patriot:

[LostinVA]

29. And some other person

GO EAGLES!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

38. What the hell are you talking about, douchebag?

It's a damn good thing I love you.

[LostinVA]

52. Think about it

Where do the Eagles play?

[Danger Mouse]

53. Philidelphia?

:shrug:

[LostinVA]

58. Tres good!

[Danger Mouse]

61. What does that have to do with the price of coffee beans in Borneo?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

41. What the hell are you talking about, douchebag?

It's a damn good thing I love you.

[Danger Mouse]

44. My point is this...in life there are people who disagree with you.

Sometimes this disagreement will cause you to take offense.
You can't live in a world without people that offend you, on DU or elsewhere...but with the new nukular block, people can essentially create a DU that shuts out any sort of thing that might offend someone somehow.
I mean...if this is how people want their DU experience to be, I find that sad.
I've read ALL KINDS OF OFFENSIVE POSTS on R/T...I have yet to put ANYONE on ignore.
Unless someone is honestly harassing you, I can't see the point in using the nukular block.

[omega minimo]

87. That's what it's for

"Unless someone is honestly harassing you, I can't see the point in using the nukular block."

[Danger Mouse]

89. But a lot of people use it to block people that simply disagree with them.

That's what I have a problem with.

[LostinVA]

90. Me too

[omega minimo]

91. It's a Disruptor Buster

:thumbsup:

[Danger Mouse]

92. Yeah, but the more you do it...the tinier you make your own DU space...

the more opinions you rid from your plate...
i'd rather just suck it up and deal with the disruptors.

[omega minimo]

93. Like you said

there's a limit.

[Danger Mouse]

94. Glad to hear that you agree.

=)

[omega minimo]

95. Right-- who's gonna miss the disruptors?

[Danger Mouse]

99. Depends on your definition of disruptor, I suppose =)

[jpgray]

20. Holy shit! I'm on permablock

Not by you, obviously. But if you add some hands pressing against those baby ears you might really be onto something.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

27. Me too!

Three dimwits in one day! Woohoo!

[Danger Mouse]

31. Word =)

Let me see what I can dig up...
http://pics.livejournal.com/thelovebug/pic/0004d81b/s320x240
how's this?

[Duppers]

24. oh hell yes!

that me! to a T!

How'd ya get my baby picture??????


:silly:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

35. ...

[xmas74]

32. I leave everyone alone here for a couple of weeks,

pretending to have a life, and this happens? Is everyone fighting w/ each other again?


(BTW-I'm a woman and I used to call men "doucebags" all the time.)

[LostinVA]

40. Oh, things have been bonkers

Change your avatar to a rainbow flag, and see what happens....

[Danger Mouse]

47. Can I get in on the game? I want to see if people nukular block me for

supporting my homosexual DU friends.

[LostinVA]

57. Of course!

Change your avatar AND stick up for gay issues and gay posters.

You will be NBed so fast your head will spin/

[Danger Mouse]

66. I'm there!

Check it out =)

[LostinVA]

71. Yay!!!

Now, just defend gays/gay issues.

Youll be NBed for sure.

[Danger Mouse]

74. Do I need to do this in GD?

I admit, I'm kind of scared...
:scared:

[LostinVA]

76. Not necessarily -- it happens here, too

[Danger Mouse]

79. That's sad. Very, very, very sad.

Hey DU homophobes! Congrats! You've won the 'Fred Phelps Hate Award' for spreading your bile to a site that is supposed to be a safe haven from that kind of SHIT.
Your award is a kick in the rear and a shiny new bible, full of the latest and greatest hate hits!

[LostinVA]

82. I'm PMing you in five minutes -- read it

[omega minimo]

84. What are you talking about?

[Danger Mouse]

85. Homophobic DUers

apparently they exist.

[xmas74]

48. That bad?

I think I need to change my avi anyway-probably still a Christmas one.

And I was going to change it to one of Hiro!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

56. Wait, what?

Midlo said something about that, but I thought it was a joke. What's the deal?

[idgiehkt]

62. are they doing it with just the rainbow, or the pink triangles as well?

don't tell me there are rainbow haters out there...

[Danger Mouse]

64. Guess there are homophobes at DU too...

sadly, it's not that surprising.

[omega minimo]

67. are you saying all the threadkillers have the same icon?

:wow:

[Danger Mouse]

70. One wonders...what one means by this, one does!

Wonder, I do!

[LostinVA]

73. Hmmm....

PM me what that post said -- please?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

77. wait, what?

Have YOU got somebody on ignore?

:rofl:

[LostinVA]

I think any gay-themed avatar

Some of the posters they are nuking are STRAIGHT. hehehehhehehe

[idgiehkt]

86. I know...I thought I was in queer heaven when I

started posting in the lounge until I realized it was a solidarity thing.

[LostinVA]

88. That's my fault, actually!

[Courtesy Flush]

65. This is the fastest growing thread I've seen in a while!

An inspration to panderers everywhere!!11!1!!

[Danger Mouse]

68. Hi there! Love Leonard Cohen and the song 'Democracy'

:hi:

[VelmaD]

98. That's really fucking funny...

since every one seems to yell at me that I'm the "PC police" and yet I have no one blocked. But there are apparently a lot of thin-skinned people around here who just can't bear to have their sexism pointed out. They were the ones who reached for that block button...not me.

Whining about "PC" is a reflection on you...not the people you're whining about. Whining about the "PC police" is the last resort of people who want to say sexist, racist, homophobic, *insert offensive to other minority groups here* shit and not have to suffer any consequences for it.

I have said this about a brazillion times recently and I am going to repeat it one more time...when someone tells you you are being offensive you have two choices...a decent human being apologizes and doesn't do it again...but if you go off on a rant about the "PC police" and tell the person they're thin-skinned or over-reacting or it isn't that big a deal and basically blame them and take no responsibility for your own behavior and not only continue to use the slur but rub people's faces in it...that makes you an asshole.

[Danger Mouse]

103. Correction...

I'm rarely told that I'm offensive, and when I have been, if I've felt that I was in the wrong, I adjust my attitude and rethink my position.
I've never blocked anyone, and don't plant on it. Even when people have grossly misinterpreted things that I've said, distorted them, insulted me, etc.
And like I've said in other posts...I think PC is fine up to a point...but some people take it too far, trying to santiz e their world to the point where it contains nothing offensive to them.

[VelmaD]

108. you and I likely don't have a problem with each other

In fact, the ability to adjust one's attitude when one is wrong is a part of my personal definition of being a grownup.

I'll admit, I am pretty riles up about this whole thing right now though. And when you made that comment about blocking people...knowing how block has been used against me recently while I block no one based on principle...well, it set me off a little bit.

[idgiehkt]

107. Wow.

You are the shit, Velma D.

I never got the douche thing, and I hid all the threads and still hide all threads with that word in the OP because the whole topic is tiresome. But I do agree with what you are saying. I've been called PC police once when I was actually in the wrong...alot of other times it was grumbling, just like you say.

[montanto]

102. yes, yes, and again YES.

Sign me up and fuck anyone else who doesn't agree with me.

[Danger Mouse]

104. Why fuck them when you can BLOCK them??

...sorry.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

109. Locking

This is flame-bait.

Respectfully submitted,
CaliforniaPeggy
DU Moderator