Tongue Tied 9-9-02 - Fox News Examines Political Correctness Gone Amok

Fox News ^ | 9-9-02 | Scott Norvell

[jmc813]

For their commemorations of the Sept. 11 attacks, students at the University of California at Berkeley initially wanted to hand out only white ribbons because to hand out red, white and blue ones might make some students uncomfortable or feel excluded, reports the Daily Californian.

[ThinkDifferent]

students at the University of California at Berkeley initially wanted to hand out only white ribbons

How racist!

[coloradan]

White ribbons? The color of surrender. How appropriate.

[Senator Pardek]

For a word-of-the-day vocabulary lesson, fourth-grade teacher Stephanie Bell was teaching her students synonyms for the word "stingy."

Look THAT up in your Funk 'n Wagnalls!

[Guillermo]

I scoffed at those who said immediately after 9-11 that PC was dead. I was right. It's much worse than it was then.

[pfflier]

...exclusion of such "nationalist" songs as "The Star-Spangled Banner" from the celebration leaked, Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl overruled the student leaders and decided to hand out red, white and blue ribbons and allow the national anthem to be played.

I'm shocked, Someone in Berkeley had to balls to take on the pinko apologists?!?

Niggardly...parent Akwana Walker said it was inappropriate to use the word because it sounds similar to a racial slur

I wonder what she would do around thesbians that masticated?

[TransOxus]

What a joke that the PC crowd have niggardly minds! From the sublime to illustrate the ridiculous, I posted this a few years back in alt.impeach.clinton newsgroup why Specter was right about applying Scottish Law to Slick Willy to be not impeached:

Ever since Senator Arlen Specter pontificated that Scottish Law could be applied to Bill Clinton, it was clear that Slick had been discovered to be a Scotsman. How? Scots are stereotyped for being niggardly. Toni Morrison and other morons drooled that Slick was the "first black president". Thus Scottish Law applies!!! Very perspicuous of Specter!!!
(Hope this doesn't get pulled as it illustrates the silliness)

[eggman]

A North Carolina teacher was reprimanded and forced to apologize for attempting to teach her students the meaning of the word "niggardly," reports the Wilmington Morning Star.

There was an incident in DC a while back where a member of the mayor's staff had used the word and was accused of a racial slur and force to resign. I guess we not only don't want ignorant persons to be offended by innocent words, we must insure that they remain ingorant.