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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 177.1 | | ULTRA::ZURKO | Security is not pretty | Tue Jan 27 1987 11:26 | 13 |
| That's great. A friend of mine is always looking for dates who are
"politically correct". We both understand that what she means is
that they agree with her in broad terms about such things as:
Reagan is a jerk
SDI is a waste of engineering time, and dangerous
CPSR is a good organization to belong to
The ERA should have been passed into law
Children are important to our future
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| 177.2 | depends on who your friends are | DINER::SHUBIN | Go ahead - make my lunch! | Tue Jan 27 1987 14:46 | 6 |
| when I was in grad school in Buffalo (and no, it doesn't snow there
*all* the time) I had a friend who described herself as a
"neo-hippie". She referred to Italian bread as "politically correct
white bread."
-- hs
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| 177.3 | big brother is watching you! | SARAH::BUSDIECKER | | Tue Jan 27 1987 19:55 | 6 |
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whatever my big brother says! ;-) [Got kidded a lot when I was younger
because I was less concerned about politics, having enough trouble mowing my
own backyard without worrying about the world's!]
- Linda
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| 177.4 | | DYO780::AXTELL | Dragon Lady | Wed Jan 28 1987 14:06 | 26 |
| being a socialist or at least not being a republican,
belonging to the Sierra Club,
having once been next to someone who got tear gassed,
holistic medicine
real ponchos,
volkwagon microbusses(SP?),
organic foods,
knowing which side of Nicaragua we are supposed to be supporting
being able to identify more than one kind of herb
not wearing leather ('cept for the birkenstocks)
working on your own car
not owning a car 'cause it oppresses the masses
only keeping female housepets (woman-identified housholds only)
seeing a therapist,
collectives,
spelling women, wimmin
But seriouly folks,
Being politically correct implies being aware of more than just your
immediate surroundings. Being PC requires a judgement of right
and wrong as they apply to humanity in general, and the conscious
decision to live in a way that does not support inappropriate causes.
And somehow being able to separate truth from hype.
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| 177.5 | hmmmm... | VIKING::TARBET | Margaret Mairhi | Wed Jan 28 1987 14:23 | 7 |
| <--(.04)
Perhaps I'm a cynic, Maureen, but in my experience "political
correctness" has much more to do with having the "right" prejudices
than with ethics or reasoned choices.
=maggie
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| 177.6 | | DYO780::AXTELL | Dragon Lady | Wed Jan 28 1987 14:52 | 13 |
| re .4 and .5
I think you're right about being politically correct. Personally,
I prefer no predjudices to having the right ones. But then I
never was PC. I'm not sure us cynics can be PC. I am pretty sure
that in order to be PC, you can't laugh at yourself. Didn't somebody
in another note mention that feminists don't have a sense of humor?
I did leave out a couple of minor things for my list...
having a tail, not shaving your legs, listening to NPR.
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| 177.7 | | YAZOO::B_REINKE | Down with bench Biology | Wed Jan 28 1987 15:45 | 8 |
| re previous
While I do a lot of things that would be considered PC there is
still much of it I have no patience with. It often comes over
as a kind of morally self-righteous bigotry. I've known extremely
conservative evangelical Christians who were more liberal in their
acceptance of other's points of view than some "politically correct"
individuals.
Bonnie
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| 177.8 | | FAUXPA::ENO | Bright Eyes | Thu Jan 29 1987 16:31 | 7 |
| re .4
In this note, I think "politically correct" was meant sarcastically,
and what your explanation sounds like to me is "political awareness
or consciousness". I think.
G
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| 177.9 | | CSC32::JOHNS | | Fri Jan 30 1987 12:01 | 6 |
| Re: .8
I don't know if I meant it sarcastically, but I have always gotten
a grin at some of the things people take so seriously.
Carol
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| 177.10 | Actually learned one valuable lesson from a Teen Mag... | NEXUS::CONLON | Persistent dreamer... | Fri Jan 30 1987 15:30 | 27 |
| RE: .9
I know what you mean, Carol! It reminds
me of an article I once read in a Teen magazine
(when I was a teen myself) -- the mag was aimed
at teenage girls, and the article was about
"Are you hip or un-hip?"
It was basically done in the style of
"You are hip if you do xxxx. You are UN-hip if you do
yyyy."
The last line of the article said:
"You are *extremely* UN-hip if you have to read
a magazine article to figure out whether or not you
are hip." :-) :-)
That absolutely cracked me up! Since then,
I've tended not to worry much about whether everything
I do is "hip" (or "politically correct" or whatever.)
My rule of thumb is to follow my conscience (and try
to keep in mind how *I* would feel if I were in another
person's position.)
Suzanne...
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