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The Flash is also gay.

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Hero...must be right on all of this. ALL of the rest of us are wrong. Chrisisall, 2012

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Its really "lame" when people step all over themselves trying to be too politically correct. It doesn't become you Anthony, or anyone else. Cnscienciousness is one thing, but fanaticism about it is another. Note that I'm not saying this in regard to the topic, just saying it as a response to your last post.

I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.

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I was reading this article, and I decided the best way to integrate homosexuals into comics is to do so without fanfare.

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I'm saying his clumsy attempts to not say lame were fanatical.

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Anthony you're a sweet soul, there's no way to never offend anyone, that's just life. I'm not always very patient these days, I'm sorry.

I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.

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HBO sorry 'Game of Thrones' put Bush's fake head on a pike
The producers of HBO's "Game of Thrones" said use of a prop severed head bearing George W. Bush's likeness was not a political statement.

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Haha.... Political Correctness is lame and gay....

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I don't really get offended....

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I don't really get offended....

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That used to be our battle cry on a Friday night in high school, "What do you want to do tonight? Let's go get offended." Of course we failed every time.
It really should be a new thread though, "Let's see if we can offend Kwicko" - maybe for when it gets real slow.
Fwiw - those unripe, hard as rock tomatoes they sell at the local giant Fud Mart? They offend me deeply.

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Haha.... Political Correctness is lame and gay....

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Pretty much exactly the flame bait attitude I was talking about.

You think you're freer than most, but you have a predictable knee jerk reaction to what you see as PC by immediately being not PC. You're as bound up by conventions and political correctness as everyone else, just in the opposite way. My parents make racist jokes just to be shocking, so I know how this works, and am used to it.

In short PC versus Anti-PC are both stupid. PC is dumb because they have an overreaction to everything while the politically incorrect snicker about it. Anti-PC is dumb because they're only selectively politically incorrect, and because they attack people for self-editing, when the whole point of Anti-PC is to fight back against people trying to force OTHER people to conform.

I never see anyone who self-identifies as politically incorrect refer to everyone equally as bitches, dickheads, and other slurs, such as "cracker," until the words become just words without any meaning. Instead, they always have their specific slurs and pet-issues, usually directed at the specific groups in question. That kind of behaviour just confirms the stereotype, instead of subverts it. And then when they give a knee-jerk response to individual efforts to not use slurs, they're just missing the point.

Basically, this is yet more ridiculous divisive labeling left wing versus right wing nonsense.

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This is coming from someone who has been called both "passive aggressive" and "sweet" who is absolutely neither.

Well, since it "came" from me...have I been called passive aggressive...and SWEET?! I must have missed that.

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There's nothing wrong with me not liking how nobody today says what they want to say because of fear of offending somebody within earshot.

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All I'm saying is that there should have been a warning, a shaking of hands, and that is that.

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I agree with that, and I think it would be what happens in most cases.

ETA: On the same subject: http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/video/bestoftv/2012/06/15/nr-pkg-
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I know that is what happened at my old job.

Basic HR strategy for weeding out this undesirable behavior in the workplace was simple and fair.

Before somebody went to HR with a complaint, they were to stand up for themselves and let it be known that whatever offensive comments were being made were not appreciated. If this didn't stop the behavior, the person could then go to HR and file a complaint. The offending individual(s) would then be pulled into the HR offices and be warned that their behavior would not be further tolerated. If it ended there, all was good in the world. If not, they got pulled back in again and unless they could make a very compelling case that they didn't continue with that behavior and were being framed, they were axed without unemployment benefits.

This went for racisim, sexuality remarks and unwanted sexual gestures.

The only time I ever knew anyone who was fired immediately was when they e-mailed a picture of male genetalia to some of the girls on his shift. They were all friends, and I heard it was just a joke, and the girls didn't file a complaint or want to see him fired, but that was after the first buyout and they started to read our emails out in India.

I can't really complain about that one though. You're a fool for sending stuff like that when you know full well that any email sent to and from company servers become property of the company. No he-said, she-said there.... just cold hard facts.