Political Correctness Or Safe Skies
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I kind of messed up trying to alert everyone to this. Actually, this is on a topic on NW pertaining to the Article about the 14 Arabs on a NW flight. This topic was actually moved over there. I am watching Joe Scarborough right now about this very situation. The author of the article and her husband have been interviewed. This is very interesting.
The author of this article never waivered one time from the information she wrote about. She and her husband seemed very concerned and honest and scarred.
Of course the so called analysist will coment that this was just a coincendance.
I for one, read her entire article and now have seen them on tv, being interviewed.
IMOHO this was definately a DRY RUN. Muscians or not. I AM NOT STUPID. Hope no one else is either. This is VERT SERIOUS folks.
The author of this article never waivered one time from the information she wrote about. She and her husband seemed very concerned and honest and scarred.
Of course the so called analysist will coment that this was just a coincendance.
I for one, read her entire article and now have seen them on tv, being interviewed.
IMOHO this was definately a DRY RUN. Muscians or not. I AM NOT STUPID. Hope no one else is either. This is VERT SERIOUS folks.
Political Correctness or Safe Skies.....only one at a time will work and I guess if I were a F/A I know for sure which I would want.ktflyhome said:
Personally I think this country is totally insane worrying about being PC. Being PC only lets the bad guy take advantage. Like in Vietnam where the we had our hands tied behind our back and expect to win a war.
Sort of like what this management team is doing throwing up tons of obstacles and expecting positive results when in reality all that will ever come of this nonsense is negative results.
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Well, I for one AM NOT POLITCALLY CORRECT. I resent being even told that I have to be. I admit it freely, that is one of the liberties I have as United States Citizen. Frankly, I do not believe in being PC at all. Furthermore, I have my predjudices and am not ashamed to say so.
In my travels, talks, communications with loads of folks over the country, I will say that the ones that I have encountered basically feel the same way I do. It is amazing and quite interesting. The media has it all wrong with the way the your basic true blooded American born really feels. Problem is...our voice is being overlooked.
PC??????? Whoever invented this bull crap is full of it.
If anyone on here wants to lambast me feel free. I have big enough shoulders....I think. B) B)
In my travels, talks, communications with loads of folks over the country, I will say that the ones that I have encountered basically feel the same way I do. It is amazing and quite interesting. The media has it all wrong with the way the your basic true blooded American born really feels. Problem is...our voice is being overlooked.
PC??????? Whoever invented this bull crap is full of it.
If anyone on here wants to lambast me feel free. I have big enough shoulders....I think. B) B)
Well, let's see if you do.ktflyhome said:
The problem with the PC movement of the late 80s was its focus on words instead of actions. The words were never supposed to be the issue; it was the prejudices behind them.
And those prejudices produce a great number of wrongs in this country.
Being a black man driving in the wrong neighborhood can not only get you arrested, it can get you beaten up by the police. It happened while I was in Houston...to a high-ranking local government official driving in his own neighborhood.
Being a white man walking around with his non-white wife gets looks of disgust by many people in many parts of the country. In one state in particular, those looks of disgust come from the same people who gleefully voted for Strom Thurmond every time, despite his procreating with one of his black servants.
A Sikh from India used to only fear being treated with disrespect for "wearing a towel on his head." Now he also has to fear being beaten by "well-meaning" citizens who can't tell the difference between him and a fundamentalist Arab Muslim.
Prejudice has the potential for great evil. The very meaning of the word is to pre-judge, meaning you've decided what they're all about before they utter a single word. Postjudice makes much more sense. Judge based on what you know, not what you think you know.
It is fine to have prejudices, in the same way that it is fine to lust for someone that is not your spouse. Acting on them is the problem. Being aware of them gives you the power to not act on them. To choose to act on them anyway is the manifestation of evil.
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