Re: offtopic: christmas holidays[Euman]
It's ridiculous to assert that the term "political correctness" has anything
to do with any "international communism". In fact, the term was invented by
conservatives who wanted a better catchphrase to bash liberals with for
having a sense of decency and compassion; the conservatives old liberal
bashing catchphrase, "bleeding hearts", wasn't working well enough, and they
may have also dimly understood that the term "bleeding heart", because of
its original use with respect to jesus' own compassion, was not well
received by the religious right-wing zealots, whom the conservatives wished
to court.
The use of the term "politically correct" is a complete and duplicitous
misnomer, having the naked intent of sweeping aside genuine human compassion
by mislabeling it. It's akin to the "strawman" fallacy, where a thing is
falsely shown to be "wrong" by making reference to something *different*
than the thing (the straw man), shooting *that* down, and pretending that
the original thing is the same thing as the one shot down.
Dan Moyer
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From: "Jerry" <futures8 at EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: offtopic: christmas holidays[Euman]
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