Does anybody else think that the Political Correctness in this country is going way too far?I mean, it's getting to the point of being ridiculous. As a white hispanic man I have to accept being called "white" or "cracker" or"spic" by a black man. But I go ahead and not specifically say "African American" and most (not all, I can't generalize, but a lot of them) get insulted. But they, within their community call each other niggers?
I mean, look at this asshole:
http://on221.com/2008/02/11/nas-wears-nigger-shirt-to-grammy-awards/I really don't know who Nas is, and I honestly don't give a rats ass. But come on! Why can they call each other that but if we say it it's so wrong? Why can they call us crackers and feel wronged when called niggas?
I remember once, while getting my MFA in film, I was in screenwriting class and this black classmate brought in his script to do a class reading. So it's all about gangs, and strippers and ho's, and that's fine by me, by all means do a movie about whatever you want. So we sit there and we all get parts assigned to read out loud, all assigned by him, the writer of the piece.
So I get my part and I read it verbatim, and yes you guessed right, my character had to say "nigga" and so I said it. Well, this asshole tried to chew me a new one because I, a white man, said the word "nigga". "Well motherfucka', you wrote the damn word in your own script! What am I supposed to do?", is what I said. So you know what everybody else in the class started doing? They replaced the text, every time the word "nigga" came up they changed it for "ninja".
Sorry, but fuck that.I refused to do that, and that was the last time he assigned me a part that had that word in it.
Changing stories but not subject. So now we, and by "we" I mean all of humanity, are not supposed to talk about the years Before Christ -B.C. (i.e. the Greeks did this or that in the year 47 B.C.) or Anno Domini -A.D. (Latin for the year of the Lord) --- No... we are now supposed to talk about them as B.C.E. and C.E. (Before Common Era and Common Era respectively). Give me a break, so you're not Catholic and therefore cannot say B.C. or A.D.? So what? Whether you like it or not the Gregorian calendar which is what most of the planet uses is based on the supposed year of Jesus Christ's birth. Don't believe that J.C. is the son of God, that's fine, you don't have to, but at least acknowledge that the dude existed and was in fact an influential person. (I have to say for the sake of making my case stronger, that I am agnostic but I do believe the dude was here and was important --- to me Jesus Christ is the first true hippie, a great man, not a god or the son of one --- and I have no problem into sticking to the truth, this is the year 2008 A.D. because that dude was supposedly born 2008 years ago).
So why are we here, at a point where Political Correctness is ruling how we talk, behave and even think? I don't know, I don't have the answers, but sometimes I feel it's because most people lack the balls to say and think freely and would much rather avoid any type of confrontation. Kinda' sad...
