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Political Correctness Gone Wrong
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Rob - 08:11am on 11/26/2003
Some examples of political correctness going to far:

From the Los Angeles Daily News:

Los Angeles County officials have gone PC (politically correct) on PCs (personal computers) -- banning as potentially "offensive or defamatory" the words master and slave from computer hard drives and video equipment where they are used to describe primary and secondary circuits.


From Mens' News Daily:

Last April 2, a gang of young black thugs entertained themselves by cruising the university town of Charlottesville, Virginia, looking for white students to attack with clubs and other instruments of mayhem. After injuring several students and putting two in the hospital, they were apprehended by police. The response of the city and UVA community was an outpouring of sympathy for the "victims"- that is, the thugs who carried out the attacks. Moreover, several bake sales were held to raise funds to assure that these "victims" were properly represented in court!


From the Washington Times:

As Americans prepare for their annual commemoration of the first Thanksgiving feast -- actually held in October 1621 to celebrate a bountiful harvest -- the Pilgrims are persona non grata in Plymouth, Mass.

Two years ago, the city's Board of Selectmen erected plaques at Plymouth Rock declaring: "Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other European settlers. To them, Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of their people, the theft of their lands, and the relentless assault on their culture."

The anti-Pilgrim agenda is now national policy. Schools that celebrate Thanksgiving with classroom skits about Pilgrims and Indians do so in violation of federal curriculum guidelines.

"At Thanksgiving, shift the focus away from re-enacting the first Thanksgiving," teachers were warned in an instructional guide published by the Department of Education in 1996.

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