Should we be politically correct?
Sierra BTHP
03-10-2005, 16:56
A recent ad by Boeing, which was retracted after political correctness stepped in:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2005/09/30/2002532395.jpg
Ok. So, should we stop playing the songs, "Rock the Casbah" and "Killing an Arab" and castigate the artists who wrote those songs?
Not to mention burning the books of Camus...
Keruvalia
03-10-2005, 16:59
A recent ad by Boeing, which was retracted after political correctness stepped in:
Retracted by choice, not by legislation. If Boeing wants to be spineless, it's their option. PC is not law.
Sierra BTHP
03-10-2005, 17:00
Retracted by choice, not by legislation. If Boeing wants to be spineless, it's their option. PC is not law.
The question I have is, why do companies react to PC complaints?
Lunatic Goofballs
03-10-2005, 17:01
The V-22 Osprey. I love the Osprey. I hope they can get it to stop crashing.
Because I want one. But, you know, not if it's gonna crash. That would be a bit of a disappointment.
Kryozerkia
03-10-2005, 17:01
There's good taste and then there's just plain silly, and political correctness is just plain silly. It's one thing to write something as long as it is in good taste; it is another thing to censor one self's simply because a bunch of hippy/conservative placard waving freak movement of the moment is up in arms because it doesn't like the wording.
We should still be permitted to make jokes and not worry about political correctness just because we crack one that is utterly tasteless, even if it has no other downward qualities.
Sierra BTHP
03-10-2005, 17:03
I thought the advert was not a joke, but merely a realistic depiction of a potential scenario.
Of course, there is the point that the Osprey in the picture isn't crashing, but that's a technical detail...
Hinterlutschistan
03-10-2005, 17:03
We should be correct. Not politically correct.
Correct would be to stop shooting people.
Politically correct would be to shoot them and then wail for them.
See the difference?
Political correctness is nothing but a big pile of bullcrap painted white and perfumed. It's still a big pile of bullcrap, but it looks and smells nicer.
Kryozerkia
03-10-2005, 17:05
We should be correct. Not politically correct.
Correct would be to stop shooting people.
Politically correct would be to shoot them and then wail for them.
See the difference?
Political correctness is nothing but a big pile of bullcrap painted white and perfumed. It's still a big pile of bullcrap, but it looks and smells nicer.
It's also a result of that damned feminist movement!
I think PC can go *bleep* itself! I mean... ick! Have you read those PC fairy tales?
Keruvalia
03-10-2005, 17:09
The question I have is, why do companies react to PC complaints?
Because a company's job is to sell its product, preferrably to the widest audience possible. If a company finds out it is offending some portion of its base, then it tends to go where the money can be found.
An add that offends the very people you're trying to sell to is not sound company policy.
The question I have is, why do companies react to PC complaints?
For the same reason as school boards stop teaching evolution or fire homosexual staff when some fuckwit with a bible instead of a brain starts whining.
Swimmingpool
03-10-2005, 19:55
Why do they make advertisements for stuff that only the government buys?
We should be correct. Not politically correct.
Correct would be to stop shooting people.
Politically correct would be to shoot them and then wail for them.
See the difference?
Political correctness is nothing but a big pile of bullcrap painted white and perfumed. It's still a big pile of bullcrap, but it looks and smells nicer.
Ahh, someone who looks at PC through the same corrective lenses that I do.... It is so refreshing to know one is not the only one with such a view.
Why do they make advertisements for stuff that only the government buys?
Well, it's not all sold to ONE government (sometimes its sold to other countries); and also, some stuff is also sold for civilian use (the C-130, for example is used by the US, UK and Australian forces, but it is also sold to private companies).... The same is true of the Boeing helicopters (such as the CH-46 and CH-47 twin rotor 'copters).. Especially true of most craft which serve in a transport capacity; which could be just as easily employed by private companies, as for military use...
Pitshanger
03-10-2005, 20:14
Political Correctness is just seeking not to offend, it's one of the least important issues ever.
Political correctness is stupid. We live in a politically incorrect world today. Live with it.
Kiwi-kiwi
03-10-2005, 20:24
I remember back when I was younger that 'political correctness' seemed fairly synonymous with 'politeness'. Er, maybe not so much 'polite' as 'not overly rude'. I mean, it was mostly just things like calling people 'mentally disabled/handicapped' as opposed to 'retarded'. Which, y'know, seems reasonable to me.
However a lot of what is considered to be 'politically correct' now is starting to go way overboard...
I remember back when I was younger that 'political correctness' seemed fairly synonymous with 'politeness'. Er, maybe not so much 'polite' as 'not overly rude'. I mean, it was mostly just things like calling people 'mentally disabled/handicapped' as opposed to 'retarded'. Which, y'know, seems reasonable to me.
However a lot of what is considered to be 'politically correct' now is starting to go way overboard...
Hmm, I always looked at it slightly different, and postulated well by a very back-woods sort of mountain-man type person I knew some years ago named Perkins while interning in Adult education at a prison work-camp..... When one person responded, talking about some prisoners at this work-camp as "Look at those retards!"... Perkins responded, "Don't call them retards... I know plenty of retarded people, and they's nice people... You shouldn't insult retarded people like that..."
That is... "retard" is used in the wrong way, to the wrong people, who don't even "deserve" to be called that... And who despite having a valid disability, operate with much more class than the type they are being associated with... The term only convey's negativity through initial misuse... and, is itself, not negative.
Kiwi-kiwi
03-10-2005, 20:43
Hmm, I always looked at it slightly different, and postulated well by a very back-woods sort of mountain-man type person I knew some years ago named Perkins while interning in Adult education at a prison work-camp..... When one person responded, talking about some prisoners at this work-camp as "Look at those retards!"... Perkins responded, "Don't call them retards... I know plenty of retarded people, and they's nice people... You shouldn't insult retarded people like that..."
That is... "retard" is used in the wrong way, to the wrong people, who don't even "deserve" to be called that... And who despite having a valid disability, operate with much more class than the type they are being associated with... The term only convey's negativity through initial misuse... and, is itself, not negative.
This is true. However, among children at least, if a word has gained an overly negative connotation, it's probably best to discourage them from using it. Or something. I know I have a point, but I'm having trouble finding it. Oh well.
However, I do agree entirely.