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Owner59 -> RE: Is free speech dead? (11/5/2007 8:26:22 AM)
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The OP suggests that only "PC" speech,is protected.Which of course,is not so.
But it`s certainly telling of the folks who focus on others, for being so called "politically correct".
Usually and lately,it refers to the use of less offensive terms and symbols.
For example,referring to the people who lived on this continent (and their descendants) before Europeans arrived,as native Americans,instead of Indians.Another,changing team names from offensive titles like "redskins",to something neutral.To some,very important,to others no big deal.But to a few cry-babies,it`s simply pandering to minorities and wrong.I think it`s just being a good neighbor .
Conservatives would argue(and do),that this is all silliness,and meaningless.That it`s liberals, trying to pander to minorities,and that it`s only symbolic.The term "PC has kinda become a catch-all phrase,for all that`s liberal.
Not calling someone a Jap,or a towel-head,or fat,is considered by some,to be politically correct.
I just think it`s good manners.Not an effort to cow-tow or pander.
Another example of so called "PC",is the trend away from treating gays,like lepers.People who point the finger,claim it`s only being done in order to be politically correct towards gays,or some non-sense like that.
Again,I just think it`s good manners,to not use the "fag" word,like Ann Coulter,or call whole cultures "lazy",like Ronald Dumbsfeld did.Or referring to elite collage athletes,as "knappy-headed hoes",like Imus did.
It`s not an effort to silence folks,or curb speech.It`s just being civil.
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Another note,it just wasn`t the speech.It was the proximity.
If Phelps had done his protesting somewhere else,he`d never have been sued or on the hook for court damages.
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