His Phoenix

Grrrrrrrr I just spend 2.5 hours writing this (between scrabble words) and I LOST it trying to post it!!! !@#$%^^ Blogger sheeshhhhhhhh

Ok feeling better somewhat. Let’s try this again.

What is up with all this political correctness any ways? Who told the general public that we needed our speech policed? What happened to Free Speech? What happened to leaving our vocabulary alone and in our hands? I have a few questions for you and would be interested in your opinions.

1. What DID happen to our Free Speech? Who decided we needed to be politically correct? Since when is it not ok to state the obvious. Since when should we fear retribution for calling a blind person blind or a handicapped person handicapped? Now it is Visually Disabled or Movement Challenged. Get real here people!

I really like this guy and his actions to remove the PC’ness from his disability.

2. What happened to punishing your child without fear of retribution and involvement of the state in your lives? I was punished and spanked as a child. I became a respectable adult. I have no backlash thoughts against those that spanked me. I have no inner voices telling me to kill people. I know, you are thinking, “What does this have to do with PC?” Well, think about this. If you were to dare to smack a child on the butt for being rude and obnoxious, you would offend someone else’s sensibilities. Thus, you are not being PC.

3. Who decided we need euphemisms in the first place? There are too many to count but some examples are: dysphemism, cacophemism, and americanism. WTF?!? Who came up with this nonsense? I have no idea what these “ism’s” even mean much less anything else.

In language, both dysphemism (from the Greek ‘dys’ δυς= non and ‘pheme’ φήμη = speech) and cacophemism (in Greek ‘caco’ κακό = bad) are rough opposites of euphemism, meaning the usage of an intentionally harsh word or expression instead of a polite one.

In terminology, an Americanism is a word or phrase used commonly in the United States that found recent introduction into British English (for example), especially through the popular media of television and movies. Some such dialectal terms are American coinages, whilst others are archaisms (e.g. “Fall” in the sense of “Autumn”) that may also linger in other dialects.

Did you know this stuff? I didn’t. What I do know is that the brilliant mind of Bill Maher was “canned” for stating a thought on his show “Politically Incorrect” after 9/11. He was referring to Bush and the terrorists.

“We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it’s not cowardly.”

This statement was taken out of context and the man literally had to resign as a result of it AND apologize for it.

“In no way was I intending to say, nor have I ever thought, that the men and women who defend our nation in uniform are anything but courageous and valiant, and I offer my apologies to anyone who took it wrong”.

This in my opinion was wrong. Where in that statement does he say the military is cowardly? Where in that statement was he politically incorrect? Was his freedom of speech taken away? You tell me.