Your fathers generation has been called "generation X". The "X" means "nothing".
Before them was the Baby-Boomers, then the Hippie, then the Yippee and then the X'rs. It means that they have not gotten or accepted a specific identity.
The Baby-boomers were the generation following the second world war. After the troops came home their was a "baby boom".
The Hippies were the "drug, sex and rock and rollers of the 60's.
Then the Yippies were the money makers and then the X'rs who did nothing but sit around and play Nintendo and complain about being bored.
There is little in this life today that vexes me more than political correctness. I think that the reason it is so upsetting is that it is all make believe. It is just a façade pretending to hold substance and everyone seems to perpetuate the myth.
Really, there is nothing there, like the emperor's clothes - nothing. But, it seems like there is a mass hysteria in the world trying to convince themselves that it is there.
I would rather hear just what the speaker is saying - that is the colloquialism - because it let's me know just where I stand. That way there are no surprises.
I may detest what is said, but I understand the speaker much better.
George Wallace was the governor of Alabama during the civil rights marches in the 60's. He personally stood in front of the doors of the University of Alabama when the first blacks were to be admitted. Never before was a black allowed into the University as a student.
Governor Wallace stood, blocking the door, and refused entry to the "niggers". The National Guard had to be called in to escort the students through the doors.
With George, you always knew where you stood.
Political Correctness means, "say what they want to hear".
It is a code.
This is a partial list of the new definitions of the "PC Vocabulary". If you do not understand the code, then you are in for a lot of trouble.
I knew a guy who was not selected for a city job because he stated "then you are in high cotton."
I know of a Texas Senator that was impeached because he said reporteres were "looking for a nigger in a woodpile."
I knew a guy who was not selected for a job because he said "churches" rather than, "faith based service organizations." (see there was offense that he did not say synagogue or temple or mosque and all of the others intertwined. An interviewer felt left out and the guy was a racist because he left them out.)
I know a guy who did not get a government contract because he said he "may"' use a certain minority ancillary service provider rather than "shall". That one word out of 100,000+ lost him his chance.
There was a sportscaster who was fired because he said that women golfers would never be as good as men golfers because "their breasts get in the way".
There was an odds-handicapper in Las Vegas who was fired from his T.V. spot because he said, "blacks are faster and stronger because they were bred that way".
There was a sports caster who was fired because he said a female tennis player "looks more masculine than her opponent".
It is not PC to have certain symbols on your flag.
It is not PC to have American Indians as names for your sport teams.
It is not PC to hire the best person for the job.
It is not PC to believe that anyone but whites can be racist.
It is not PC to tell people what they need to hear.
It is not PC to speak your mind.
It is not PC to tell of your experiences.
It is not PC to have an opposing position from certain other groups.
It is not PC to insult someone.
It is not PC to hold everyone to the same standard.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons color.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons religion.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons faults.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons culture.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons ethnicity.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons sexual preference.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons age.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons origin.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons size.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons height.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons weight.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons hair color or style.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons clothing.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons mode of transportation.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons choice of food.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons name.
It is not PC to point out that something involves a persons __________(fill in the blank).
It is not PC to do anything outside the PC world.
Colloquialism PC Vocabulary
A drunk = Alcoholic
Any reason to promote your special interest = For the Children
Being a drunk = Alcoholism
Being a junkie = Chemically Dependent
Black = African American
Chink = Chinese American
Colored Person = African American
Expressing feelings = Intolerance
Faggot = Homosexual
Friend = Nigga'
Ghetto = Empowerment Zone
Girl Friend = Bitch
Ghetto Slang = Black English Vernacular
Gook = Korean American or Vietnamese American
Jew = Israeli American or Hebrew
Having an opposing opinion = Intolerance
Having an opposing opinion with a minority = Racism
Homosexual = Queer (as in "nation")
Kill = Terminate with extreme prejudice
Mad Black Guy = One who suffers as a victim from "Black Urban Rage"
Mad White Guy = Bigot
Making someone else do what you want = Americanization
Mother = Whore
Negro = African American
Nigger = African American
Nigger, Chink, Gook, Wap, Greaser = Minority
Noise = Rap Music
Occultism = New Age
Old Person = Senior American
Perpetrator of a violent crime = Victim
Place where a certain people choose to live = International District
Prairie Nigger = American Indian
Profiteering = Privatization
Slum = Urban Core
Sociopath = Disenfranchised American
Wap = Italian American
War = Conflict
War = Police Action
Zealot = Compassionate Conservative
Here are some definitions of other colloquialisms.
Indian Car = Old, beat-up, rust bucket
Mountain Oyster = Steer testicles
Salmon Squeezer = Salish Indian or Scandanavian
If people hadn't spoken their minds - no matter how distasteful or ignorant - I would never have had the chance to develop my own idea of self.
If people hadn't spoken their minds - no matter how intelligent or insightful - I would never have had the chance to develop my own idea of self.
Without free and open expression you just get the opposed position.
If a bigot pretends to be enlightened just to get by, then the bigotry will never be exposed for what it is and will be perpetuated.
If a white supremacist is not shown to be what he is, he will be laying in wait.
If a black radical is not shown to be what he is, he will be laying in wait.
If an evil person portrays himself to be righteous and is not exposed, you may well become his victim.
If a righteous person is not exposed, you may well loose a chance for salvation.
If an ignorant person purports ignorance and it is called enlightenment so he is not offended, many will be duped.
If a monster calls his actions love, many could die.
If you can not speak your mind without ridicule, then you will harbor your mind until it manifests itself physically.
If you live in fear because what you say could keep you from eating or getting a job or belonging with someone - then you are isolated.
If you can not share wisdom because someone may be offended because they are dumb, then the dumb guy will always be dumb.
I have been that dumb guy.
Once, a group of black GI's kicked the crap out of me for using the word "nigger". I was 19 and dumb. They told me as I lay in a heap "you can think what you want but we don't want to hear it".
That was that.
I discovered through their enlightened approach that I was wrong in what I did and that I had no right to be hurtful because I thought I was being funny.
I learned a valuable lesson.
They would not have had the opportunity to give me an "education" if I had not been able to speak my "ignorance".
The process may not be pretty, but it was effective.
If I know that someone is wrong, because I have been shown they are wrong, then I will have a less likely chance of becoming a Davidian or lying in a pile with Kool-Aid stained lips in Ghana with Jim Jones.
I too, will not be sending my rent money to a T.V. evangelist who promises me great riches if I invest in him.
I will not buy the Brooklyn Bridge and I will not "get rich quick".
I will not be a slave nor a slave owner, not a perpetrator nor victim, not a zealot nor apathetic, not blissfully ignorance of the needs of my neighbor.
I appreciate it when the doctor tells me that "this may hurt a little".
I appreciate it when someone tells me "I never thought of it that way".
I appreciate it when I can see someone or something for what it is - not what it pretends to be.
I appreciate it when someone say's "I think you are wrong" and shows me why. (I appreciate it much more when they are right!)
You are a smart guy.
You know what is the right thing to do and what is the wrong thing to do. But many folks don't know what to do because no one has ever told them what is right or wrong.
Many folks live in fear because they haven't seen the light.
Many people are duped because they haven't been shown the best and the worst.
Pol Pot was the worst.
Mother Teresa was the best.
Gandhi was the best, Hitler was the worst.
Pinochet of Chile was the worst, Nelson Mandela was the best.
Bishop Tutu is the best, Jimmy Swaggart is the worst.
Without juxtaposed and different examples we can never find the middle ground. The truth always lays in the middle ground somewhere.
Extremes hold deception.
I generally keep my opinions to myself unless asked. But when I answer, I answer in the truth that I know.
It may be pretty and sparkly or dirty and dingy, but it is my truth.
I don't proselytize nor preach. I will just ell you how I am if you ask.
I don't go out of my way to become involved in controversy or fained praise.
I just try to live life as I find it and don't suffer fool or Rat Bastards. I don't have too and neither do you.
Feel free to know yourself and live, as you know to be true. Even if no one else agrees with you, you can live the way you need to live by just living that way.
Keep your mouth shut and do what you know what is right. Words are cheap in a cheap mans eyes. Actions speak volumes.
Don't argue or defend yourself. Do what you know to be true and do your best in it's doing. In the end you will be happy.
Science is proving today that nothing is a constant and that there are no true facts.
I have always been taught that there is nothing faster than the speed of light. That the speed of light is a concrete law. It can not change. It never has and never will. Well, guess what? Some scientists sent light through a prism and it went faster.
Imagine their surprise.
Copyright PsychopeteÓ 2003
