tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11020751.post111878334799643754..comments2023-10-08T11:10:46.457-04:00Comments on Countersignature: To Those Who Bemoan Political Correctness...cshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14117846384130187926noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11020751.post-1118958908552397522005-06-16T17:55:00.000-04:002005-06-16T17:55:00.000-04:00Having gone to college and being involved in progr...Having gone to college and being involved in progressive politics in the early 90's, I saw the PC police first hand. I'm as liberal as they come and I don't like the idea of using racist language, but what I saw back then was political correctness run amok. It was censorship, regardless of how well meant it might have been. I think that the right wingers who still rant and rave about this must be permanently stuck in 1992 on their liberal arts college campus where there were symposiums on changing words like history to herstory and spelling Woman with a y. But these are the same people who rail against the "liberal media," who were soooooo liberal that they waited an entire month before mentioning the Downing Street Memo. I guess what I'm trying to say is that there was plenty wrong with the PC movement of the early 90's, but we seem to have moved on from that while the right have failed to update their material.<BR/><BR/>To the anonymous poster above, making fun of Asians and gays in San Francisco is not a particularly good idea. What the people screaming for heads over this don't seem to get is that jocks aren't exactly known for their sensitivity, nor is it really expected of them. I'm sure the intention of the 49ers tape was just meant to be funny, but it must have offended somebody on the inside if it got leaked to the press.<BR/><BR/>Have any of you heard the song "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" from Avenue Q?Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17601863377056165200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11020751.post-1118824055346948442005-06-15T04:27:00.000-04:002005-06-15T04:27:00.000-04:0049ers’ Training Video: The Political Game Goes Int...49ers’ Training Video: The Political Game Goes Into Overtime<BR/>http://www.californiaconservative.org/?p=424Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com