Politically Correct

WARNING: The following may be deemed inappropriate for some young readers by some parents. Read only at your own responsibility.

It seems to be all the rage in this country to make sure that everything we say is non-offensive to everyone everywhere at all times.

But why should I curb my freedom of speech just because you may find it offensive? Who made you ruler of the universe? Why are your ears and feelings so precious that they can't handle hearing something you dislike? Gimme a fucking break. Grow the fuck up and toughen up a little, you who are offended and so full of your dumb ass self that you think its someone else's problem that your feelings are impinged upon.

So you know someone who's clinically retarded. Who actually is what that word is supposed to technically mean. So the fuck what?! So you're offended by curse words, such as fuck, shit, asshole, etc. So?

It is common to hear folks described as an Asshole. I have an Asshole. Should I be offended? Should I think that the usage of the word actually refers to my physical person? Or to anyone in particular's actual anus? Are you really that fucking retarded? If so, this blog is clearly not for you. I don't have any intention to pandering to those who feel that everyone should make sure that their feelings never get hurt.

Here's a clue for you: I don't give a flying fuck about your feelings. Further more, nobody but YOU are responsible for your feelings. Its not my responsibility.

This whole dumb-ass world is full of folks who seem to think that their feelings are more valuable than anyone's right to say something meaningful and actually try to have a conversation about important things. And I understand why some folks may bow to that - extend their message to more ears by trying to remove anything offensive from the message.

But my own conclusions to-date on this issue are that those who are so caught up in the wording of the message that they get offended by references that have nothing to do with what they're being offended by (or claim to be - such as the idea that using "Fucking retard" somehow actually relates to people with a birth defect), are too fucking dumb to have a meaningful conversation with in the first place, and are not going to understand the content of the actual message regardless of how sanitized you make it.

So - if you're offended over things that aren't actually directed at you or anything real - take your precious ass elsewhere. You're obviously not someone I wish to have a conversation with, and it sounds like the feeling is mutual.

If I or anyone actually uses hateful language directed at a group of people, or an individual, then I can actually understand why they may be offended. And there do need to be limits to such hate-speech. Especially where the anger is directed at a person or group's identity, rather than on specific issues.

To me it seems too common in this nation to confuse this idea. A person yelling death to Jews is using hate-speech. It isn't a rational conversation. It isn't a reasoned argument. Its sole purpose is to generate anger towards a group of people.

Contrast that against someone who is insulting the Jewish tradition of avoiding non-kosher foods. That is NOT hate speech, even if it is offensive to some people. Belief in a bunch of multiple thousand year old scriptures dictating culinary limits is certainly a concrete idea, and one that can (and perhaps should) be ridiculed. It doesn't mean all Jewish people are idiots, but that a specific practice or idea is ludicrous.

Please note that the use of kosher foods and Judaism is a purely arbitrary choice. Any Christian, Muslim, Animistic, or other faith could easily have been chosen as my example, as every one of them proscribe certain behaviors based upon archaic arbitrary rules ascribed with magical power to lend them credence.

So why is it that we all feel so compelled these days to say nothing that could possibly be interpreted by some group as offensive? Do you feel compelled to hold your tongue?