Political Correctness Stories

I remember reading about the Huckleberry Finn book incident and thinking how ridiculous it was.

 

I think its understandable.

 

Not really. The black people in question seem to be very over-sensitive. You can't just be offended by every mention of the n-word, regardless of its context. I think its a real shame that some people feel they have to protect their children from a good book just 'cause it has "bad" words in it.

 

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are two amazing books, but I can see how some people would be sensitive to some of the content. It's a shame that they've been made to feel that way, because the writing is superb.

 

If that one book is so important to a parent they could go out and buy one for five bucks.

 

Well its the fact that they felt they had to go to the school to complain, and the school subsequently decided to take the book off the shelves...

Its a real shame for the rest of the kids.

 

that makes for a ****ing scary Santa. and a stupid solution by the way.

they ARE misguided criminals or rather they were ( plus, who did they think they were going to offend? terrorists? I call this story Moot!)

but really, when read in context

seems to make sense, not only that, but in true misleading fashion, I've yet to read this London article, all I could find were right wing news sites with links to articles within themselves.

yeah, this is stupid, this guy should be able to say what he wants and discriminate how he wants in his own private business.
I mean, it's not like discriminating based on a language targets a specific race or anything ( as I'm sure, he hasn't offered specific examples, oh wait, he did, when interviewed he referred only to the Spanish language, oh well I'm sure this wasn't racially motivated)
people are just too damned sensitive.
to be fair, the owner did say that he saw this as "tough love" but also to be fair the sign said "this is America, when ordering please speak English"
and I wonder what all the people circling the city of Tijuana would feel if when called upon to order in restaurants they were directed to a sign that said

"Esto es Mexico, cuando ordene, por favor hable Español"

I mean, I'm sure they'd be ok with it.

meh, I'm more offended by Telemundo.
now that **** is offensive.

that's nice and all, but this has nothing to do with "political correctness though" as self esteem is an issue of psychology and not politics.

they should've changed the name of the team along with the logo.

hahahahahaha! if it's so innocuous why do they have to refer to it as
"a certain racially charged word that begins with N" I mean, it's not like people can't read it anymore, is it dumb because students miss out on a great book?
well yes, they should be taught that this was acceptable during the time, because this way, what happens is that people forget that these situations ever happened.
but yeah, not Fahrenheit 451 just yet.
except if you take the q'ran from a library, then you are flagged.
of course, I perused the great right and left wing punditries for outrage on THIS matter but alas turned up nothing.

yeah, that's pretty dumb.