Article

2005-10-16 Home Front: Culture Wars

Devil went down to Georgia, told to shut up

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-10-16 17:27|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yet another data point for "too stupid for words / too stupid to live".

It's over. PCism has made this world unlivably insane. It's time to cull the herd.

Posted by .com 2005-10-16 18:10|| 2005-10-16 18:10|| Front Page Top

#2 They just don't like Duke in Georgia cause they whoop 'em in basketball all the time.

Edith Hamilton would be a good friend of Ellen DeGeneris and Hillary Cliton.

Posted by Flosing Crineger4153 2005-10-16 18:13|| 2005-10-16 18:13|| Front Page Top

#3 I cannot blame the band director. That a single determined idiot can disrupt a high school with his rantings is a fact of life. However, I look forward to the day when "interfering with public education" is seen as a misdemeanor offense.

A very straightforward law--any person who interferes with a public school with intent to disrupt, interfere, coerce, intimidate, harass or prevent their lawful activities, or interfere with students, faculty or administration, would be subject to criminal prosecution.

The law right now comes pretty close to having such a statute.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-10-16 18:31|| 2005-10-16 18:31|| Front Page Top

#4 I think it's a shame that the [marching band director] would yield to one piece of mail. If people find out that he can be manipulated that easily, he's going to have a hard way to go.

I have just become a Charlie Daniels fan.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-16 19:12|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-16 19:12|| Front Page Top

#5 If writing new laws is the answer, you'll be writing a LOT of laws. Every day we discover new intrusions that lack even a whiff of common sense. Intrusions that serve no one - save the bottomless egos of well and truly sociopathic publicity hounds, such as Michael Newdow. Intrusions that contribute nothing to our society, but demonstrably detract. Our tolerance of this twisted newthink creates the niches and hernias where the specialty whores, such as race-baiters of the Jackson, Sharpton, and Farrakhan ilk, prosper.

This shit must be stopped before it infects everything - and it already exists, a hovering Sword of Damocles, in every conversation, every relationship, in the workplace, in your emails and diary scribblings and website bio, in inane dating rulebooks issued by the most inane of the intelligentsia at our universities - everywhere we go, everything we see, hear, read. We can see clearly where it is taking our cousins and ex-Allies on the continent, no?

Just my take after chewing on it a little while. This is a perversion of good intentions which has taken on a life of its own. A joke that stopped being funny and entered the realm of farce and tragedy quite some time ago.

An interesting "contest" might be to see who can come up with the earliest example (in the modern era - I claim Alley Oop anecdotes as my specialty, lol!) of obvious PCism run amok.

Posted by .com 2005-10-16 19:15|| 2005-10-16 19:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Political Correctness Delenda Est

Posted by DMFD 2005-10-16 19:25|| 2005-10-16 19:25|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm afraid the gleeful obstructionist PC environment will lead to vigilantism from what would otherwise (is a sane functional society) be non-offending majority. Celebrate nd push too far and expect the backlash on your backs from those who would willingly sacrifice to do it

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-16 19:49|| 2005-10-16 19:49|| Front Page Top

#8 "in" not "is"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-16 19:51|| 2005-10-16 19:51|| Front Page Top

#9 I believe that PCism is the amok phase of attempting to codify common sense / common decency. Since our families have largely fragmented and many "parents" have obviously abdicated to the school system the role of parent (the culture of no rules and instant gratification has many costs, mostly hidden) and our school systems are run, for the most part, by Moonbats whose eyes sparkle at the very thought of social engineering, we find common sense and common decency are not only misnomers, but endangered values. They have gleefully filled that vacuum with shrill rules of insane design.

Nothing unique or particularly profound, just my little theory on how this slide into insanity was born.

Posted by .com 2005-10-16 20:00|| 2005-10-16 20:00|| Front Page Top

23:25 Red Dog
23:23 Gremp Ebbaitle1260
23:23 Red Dog
22:56 .com
22:55 Haliburton Hurricane Division
22:54 .com
22:00 Hupavitle Threreng5712
21:59 Jackal
21:58 Hupavitle Threreng5712
21:45 JosephMendiola
21:29 God Save The World AKA Oztralian
21:26 Bomb-a-rama
21:22 JAB
21:20 Bomb-a-rama
21:19 JosephMendiola
21:19 Grunter
21:12 Pappy
21:02 JosephMendiola
20:50 JosephMendiola
20:25 .com
20:00 mhw
20:00 .com
19:51 .com
19:51 Frank G