So far I like the points given by psychotic sea otter and seraphina ..
And yes Sera , Illegal immigrants are objecting to being called wht they are ... quite sad indeed ...
I have my own theory on this I have come up with on hearing the views of countless human's . That includes stupid humans , smart humans , "normal" humans , and humans that make you wonder why we are still alive on this earth .
What I believe is that the majority of the human population will always and forever be mentally incapable of understanding how racism works .
For example , lets go back to the 1700's when most people where basically racist . The public idea was that it was a good thing and that their were superior races ( manifest destiny , and other related bull***t ) racism was in a sense "politically correct" and the majority couldn't be more wrong ...
Now we have established racism is wrong ... great ! To bad it seems 80% of the population is too stupid to know what racism is .
the banning of "blackboard"ingenius , lets ban the word blackboard because it uses the word black and that may offend anyone with blackskin ... well ... it will probobly only affect those with black skin that have suffered one to many blows to the cranium , but it will still offend someone so we must ban it . Hey wait a minute , the color purple is offensive to gays since people associate it with them ! A new idea : we should ban anything with purple in it , and black clothes have got to go along with anything else thats black since it mocks those with african decent ... oooh and red , have to ban that as well as to not offend the indians ! how about the entire color spectrum ! there is something to offend everyone , so lets ban the use of color and paint everything grey ... wait a minute ... then everything would mock eveyone !! Ack ! Oh wait ... new excellent idea just popped into my head ! Lets force everyone to stab their eyes out so everyone will be blind and nothing can offend anyone !!
Bottom line :
I will commit to not saying blackboard the day the entire PC staff is commited to an insane assylum , and that will be out of celebration .
"hate" crimesIts the latest problem folks , the minorities are getting mistreated so we have to ... not just promote anti racism ... but lets try and end it once and for all by using a new technique ....
Dum da da dummmmmm ...
Counter-racism !
thats right , lets fix minorities problems by singling them out and giving them more rights in court so all they have to do to get out of a lawsuit is stand up and say
"I am a half mexican , half negro , homosexual senior"
and they have nothing to worry about because we don't want to accuse this man because that would be racist if we did ! Discrimination is wrong !
Bottom Line :
did what I just rant about make any sense at all ? No ? It doesnt make sense to me either ...
white and blackhere is a conversation I had recently in LA , I swear it went almost exactly like this ...
<me> hey , can you let me borrow a dime ? I need to make a phonecall
<some black guy from LA> wuzzup foo!
<me>*just going with the flow* wuzzap , I lost some of my money and I need to make a phonecall and get a ride home so can I please have a dime ?
<guy> yo why da hell should I give some dumb*** whiteboy a dime after all those years of supresion ! I say f**k you biaaa**h !
<me>um...ok...
<guy> OH ! OH ! you great grandfather aint here no more to bring up da BLING BLING to get mah @$$ out of he now mdaf***er ! ya I see whats wrong with you !
<me> *walks away , later finds a dime on the sidewalk and goes home*
its pretty obvious some people have forgotten what racism is ... or more likely , they never knew what it was to begin with . Apperantly the guy I talked to had some serious issues and did not know that racism goes for blacks discriminating against whites as well . I dont think that people as a whole will ever understand , So Ill just stop my ranting as I could go on and on . ...