Should The Media Make (Almost) Everything Politically Correct??

[Brando56894]

This topic has been pissing me off over the past few years and in martins post about the transformers movie it just got to me how alot of those actors refuse to be in movies that contain violence. So I pose this question to you, should (almost) everything be politically correct so that it wont offend the majority of the USA??

For Example, my dad and I were watching the food channel and some how we got on the topic about Betty Crocker and he said if you havent noticed she has "gained" a darker collection throughout the years. Another example that comes to mind is changing Barbie's dimensions cuz it creates the image of a perfect woman in little girls heads. Theres millions of examples of this ******** that they call "political correctness" but i cant think of anymore...

[BlackBADaSS02]

I hate political correctness, if everything was political correct, the world would be a boring place.

[88jerseyiroc]

Yea PC sucks. it is ruining peoples lives. Cant tell a raunchy joke because someone might over hear it and be offended and then hear it from them. Cant curse in front of kids because other think that we we are bad parents. Always adding the extra minority char or women, to make it PC. cant hit your kids because then you are a child abuser, cant teach your kids about sex then you are pedophile. You cant kick someone ass because then you are a violent criminal. Can have an F-body because the tree huggers call you a damn pollutionist.

Movie quote from PCU. everything is so potically correct that they wouldnt know how to have a good time if it was sitting on thier face. That is so damn true.

[Ian]

cant show violence on tv because the children of america who's parents aren't paying attention to them might watch it and think that is the way things work because they didnt have anyone there to tell them otherwise. God forbid (oops thats right, god isn't politically correct) parents take the time out of their lives to actually raise their kids properly. But who has time for that when you have to work all the time so you can afford to have that big screen tv and HBO with all the violence your kids can absorb. Or...Be an idiot and try to balance scalding hot McDonalds coffee on your lap but because your such an idiot you knocked it over and burned your crotch all to hell. Now you're going to sue McDonalds for letting you be an idiot. Gosh, please dont take responsibility for your own actions, that would almost make sense.

I could go on for days...

[johnjzjz]

This topic has been pissing me off over the past few years and in martins post about the transformers movie it just got to me how alot of those actors refuse to be in movies that contain violence. So I pose this question to you, should (almost) everything be politically correct so that it wont offend the majority of the USA??

For Example, my dad and I were watching the food channel and some how we got on the topic about Betty Crocker and he said if you havent noticed she has "gained" a darker collection throughout the years. Another example that comes to mind is changing Barbie's dimensions cuz it creates the image of a perfect woman in little girls heads. Theres millions of examples of this ******** that they call "political correctness" but i cant think of anymore...

Its all about what the liberals see -- you and everyone has to bend to their idea or else you fail in school your called a neo con when you dont agree or what ever look around dude till the younger folk wakes up and sees whats going on it will never stop jz

[NJSPEEDER]

to me the whole PC thing is very simple. if you have to bend your speech and thought patterns because you are worried about someone elses feelings, you are removing all value from your own feelings.
i am not saying that there aren't right and wrong ways to phrase things when dealing with people, just that to me that should be based more on the situation and the intended result than who's great great great grandfather owned who's.

[Dark_Knight7096]

Being PC completely sucks. Everything is toned down and diluted for us in order to protect everyone's feelings, all the PC terms make me sick. Videogame ratings and the warning labels on CDs are not that big of a deal for me because they would let the parents know ok, this may not be appropriate for your child, but then again that would only work if parents actually cared about their children's lives and what went on in them.

"When a dude's gettin bullied and shoots up his school, And they blame it on Marilyn.. and the heroin, Where were the parents at?"

I love this quote from "The Way I Am" by Eminem, I wrote an entire thesis driven research paper approx 25 pages long (only had to be 6) about how music is a huge scapegoat for the worlds problems. There are so many things wrong with how people react to things, some of the warning labels on products just make me sick, people have stopped taking responsability for their own actions and just place their actions and responsabilities onto the government, the media, and faceless corporations, yet when the government/media/faceless corporations attempt to excert force over the lives of said people all they want to do is bitch about being free and being able to make their own choices, but as soon as their child who listens to violent music, plays violent games, watches violent TV and has nobody to tell them that what they see and hear and do is pretend and not real and can get you in real trouble and have real consequences, pulls a knife or a gun, or does something wrong they just want to put all responsability or blame those same forces again. People are losing their sense of accountability, dumb ass lady spills McDonalds coffee on her lap and wins a HUGE lawsuit, they actually put a disclaimer on the back of a bag of PEANUTS that reads: "This product was prepared at a factory that handles treenuts. This product may contain traces of peanuts." If you are that stupid, you deserve whatever happens to you from eating it. There is a disclaimer in the winnabago owners manuals that says, "Cruise control will not steer the vehicle, please remain in the drivers seat and operate the vehicle at all times vehicle is in motion." Reason it says this, a man bought a Winnabago set cruise control at 80, and went to the kitchen to make himself an omlette, the RV went off the road and crashed and the man was injured badly, he sued the company and won 5 million and a new RV because the salesman didn't make it explicitly known that he still had to steer the RV even though cruise control was activated. All these people should be shot, they are just tainting the human gene pool.

[WayFast84]

I HATE PC!


Plain and simple, Im not racist how ever it seems to me the reason PC is so big right now is because of imigrants, I have had many big arguments about this.
Have you ever noticed how only a white person could be racist, but when some other person from another race its ok?
What about the women in florida who filed a law suit because she couldnt get her liscence because she wouldnt take her turbin mask things off.


I think the reason why PC is becoming so big is because people come to america and just file a law suit and get a free ride, people dont want to have a law suit filed on them so they practice PC

I think its bull ****, and for people that really know me, know i have a problem with it, because I say what is on my mind and I am brutally honest.

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I agree with martin to an extant, I am home alone alot, every monday and wednsday no one is home till 9-10 at night the rest of the days its a normal work day. But I dont shoot people up, rob people or anything bad, and I listen to heavy metal and some rap, all of my cd's have that warning. I still didnt kill people did i? no!! Its because the way i was brought up, when the time my parents are home they arent PC but they tought me what was right and what was wrong, granted between the 6th-8th grade I was into some bad ****, but I straightened out becuase of cars..Its how your raised, tought and who your freinds are.

[amargari]

I think PC has just gone too far. Like many things the original intent was good but people have taken it to far.

[unstable bob gable]

PC SUCKS!!!

[Brando56894]

Being PC completely sucks. Everything is toned down and diluted for us in order to protect everyone's feelings, all the PC terms make me sick. Videogame ratings and the warning labels on CDs are not that big of a deal for me because they would let the parents know ok, this may not be appropriate for your child, but then again that would only work if parents actually cared about their children's lives and what went on in them.

"When a dude's gettin bullied and shoots up his school, And they blame it on Marilyn.. and the heroin, Where were the parents at?"

I love this quote from "The Way I Am" by Eminem, I wrote an entire thesis driven research paper approx 25 pages long (only had to be 6) about how music is a huge scapegoat for the worlds problems. There are so many things wrong with how people react to things, some of the warning labels on products just make me sick, people have stopped taking responsability for their own actions and just place their actions and responsabilities onto the government, the media, and faceless corporations, yet when the government/media/faceless corporations attempt to excert force over the lives of said people all they want to do is bitch about being free and being able to make their own choices, but as soon as their child who listens to violent music, plays violent games, watches violent TV and has nobody to tell them that what they see and hear and do is pretend and not real and can get you in real trouble and have real consequences, pulls a knife or a gun, or does something wrong they just want to put all responsability or blame those same forces again. People are losing their sense of accountability, dumb ass lady spills McDonalds coffee on her lap and wins a HUGE lawsuit, they actually put a disclaimer on the back of a bag of PEANUTS that reads: "This product was prepared at a factory that handles treenuts. This product may contain traces of peanuts." If you are that stupid, you deserve whatever happens to you from eating it. There is a disclaimer in the winnabago owners manuals that says, "Cruise control will not steer the vehicle, please remain in the drivers seat and operate the vehicle at all times vehicle is in motion." Reason it says this, a man bought a Winnabago set cruise control at 80, and went to the kitchen to make himself an omlette, the RV went off the road and crashed and the man was injured badly, he sued the company and won 5 million and a new RV because the salesman didn't make it explicitly known that he still had to steer the RV even though cruise control was activated. All these people should be shot, they are just tainting the human gene pool.


amen brother! :mrgreen: if you are that ****ing stupid you dont deserve to live. i agree with the music, video, and video game ratings to an extent but alot of it is just ********. my mom teaches special ed (k-4th grade) and one of her kids was telling her how him and his dad play vice city and he loves to beat ppl up in it and rob them. granted kids can get the wrong ideas from these sorts of games but thats why you have to be 18 to buy the damned game! i totally agree that ppl dont take responsibility for their actions. its like oh i ****ed up let me blame it on someone else!! ppl are like heavy metal music makes people violent, or this song/band made my kid kill themselves (remember that emo girl that offed her self?? ) grow the **** up people!

i was watching animal planet at like 5 am this morning and these idiot people tried to blame their 10 year old son cuz the rooster and the duck that they had "given" to him were extremely malnurished and barely had any room to move (6 inches on all sides at the most). jesus ****ing christ do they really think that the kid would really keep up on this by himself??? when the cop was talking to the mom she blamed it on her kid and told the officer to talk to her 10 year old son about it and the officer pretty much said "are you ****en nuts woman?? i cant talk to a 10 yr old about this!"

the following rant may make ppl think im a racist and if you do...................




you can go **** yourself! (tim/justin if you feel the need to edit this out, please do so. but please keep the thread open. thanks)

almost half the products i see at family dollar (where i currently work) are in english AND in spanish, even though english isnt the official langauge of the USA it is the most commonly used language, atleast learn to speak it! i had a group of mexicans (not meant to be taken offensively) that barely spoke any english and the woman held up a 6 pack of paper towels that i had rang up and she said something in spanish that i couldnt understand, i asked her if she wanted me to take it off of her order and she said yes so i proceeded to do so and put it with all the other returns. at the end of the order the went to go take it and i gave them a strange look (kinda like what are you doing??) and she said something in spanish and i was like "huh?" and the woman had nothing else to say cuz she didnt know english. luckly there was a lady behind them that spoke fluent spanish and what the customer actually wanted was a bag for the item and not for it to be deleted from the order. i give credit to immigrants who attempt to speak english but i get pissed off when they dont even try to....

ok enough ranting, im just glad to know that everyone feels the same way i do about all of this :D