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Political correctness is going to destroy us all. It's a freakin' sign get over it!

I was listening to my local talk station this morning . . . at a Dallas City Council Meeting, the Police Commissioner was complaining about the Traffic Ticket Office - tickets were being turned in and never being processed, and he made the remark "It's like there's some kind of black hole in there."

A black city councilman demanded an apology for his denigrating use of the term "black" and accused him of being racist.

As long as idiots like that continue to stir the pot, racial harmony will not be realized - not every mode of expression is intended to insult someone!

He must think Stephen Hawking is Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. And what about those guys trying to stop the Large Hadron Collider? They don't even want black holes on the same planet as them. All it takes is a couple of black holes and there goes the neighbourhood. Bigots.

If it's just a freaking sign, why are you upset that they're changing it to be more accurate?  I wouldn't spend money to replace the existing ones, just use the new ones from now on, but it's only costing the city of Atlanta $1000 to change over, well less than a penny a taxpayer (probably about what the project's worth).

Indy's example is pretty depressing, though.  How can you be qualified to be a City Councilman if you don't know the meaning of the common term "black hole"?  

Yes, repainting signs will destroy us all!!! :lookingup:

I don't think he's talking so much about this one example, but rather about the routine wasting of limited time, money and resources on superficial and sometimes awkward changes to spare the feelings of the easily offended.

I heard that on the radio today ... I found the duct tape just in time!


He's not?? :question:

Watch him, he just sets there and stares at you, unflinching ... you know he up to something.


If you don't get it, I don't have time to explain it to you ...


Never mind, AndyC did it for me! Thanks.

Pretty soon we'll have to change the term woman to woperson, naturally man will be turned into scumperson because men are scum.  And no, that is not a generalization of men, it's a fact.  I mean, why would feminists make generalizations about men. :lookingup:


On that idea, isn't feminism by name women being superior and not equal?  Think about it.

I always was offended by restroom signs.  The women's dress is too high and the man's pants are way too tight. 

Not to mention that they presume the woman is wearing a dress and the man wearing pants. How callous.

Exactly, what if I was a Scotish gentlemen visiting the country in my kilt.  Or say a woman in a pants suit goes into the wrong room by mistake.  Or maybe you're a person with an multiple gender personalities. Where are the morals people. 

And shouldn't restroom signs be representative of the whole population? Shouldn't a certain percentage of the men be wearing a turban, or the women a hijab? An extensive study needs to be done to determine the exact makeup of the population using each public washroom. Then we can design a multicultural assortment of signs, distributing them according to the ethnic distribution of the restroom-using population. And so as not to leave anyone out, smaller versions of all the other signs will also be posted on each door, with an accompanying legend explaining which cultures are depicted, and that each are meant to identify this as a restroom, along with a vision statement explaining the importance of inclusiveness in restroom signage.

Or we could just mark the doors XX and XY. Anybody offended by that? Oh right, the psychos with two Ys. Sorry.

I'm of Scottish decent what about men in kilts? So in theory I could go into a bathroom with the skirt on it an then clam confusion.

The latest one on campus here (UC Santa Cruz - hippy central) is "wymyyn"

With three y's.


I have no idea.

Yes, you should "clam" confusion...

Oh clam up.

But three is wrong, and y doesn't make sense either. It should be two X, like womxxn, or wxmxn, or woxmenx. Accordingly, "men" should be myxn then, or mxyn, or x-myn! Hey, I like the last one!

In Minnesota, we've got two seasons:  Winter and highway repair.  I've seen hundreds and hundreds of work crews, and in all that time I've seen two women working on those crews.  Both times they were holding the sign that says "slow" on one side and "stop" on the other.  So the signs need to be changed to reflect the fact that the crews aren't 100% male, but only 99.9% male.  Yup, that's important.  I can just imagine a couple of total idiots patting each other on the back for making the world a better place.

Pfft, whilst it all seems a little silly to bother with something like this, I find it funny that all the signs here say 'workers ahead' and have for as long as I can remember [which admittedly is getting more like a goldfish these days...]

Is "men working" a common sign in the states as opposed to this new option?  From the vague mention in the article it seems like it is.  Isn't a sign saying 'men working' kind of an oxymoron when referring to roadside workers?

Reminds me of Cuba where you'd see people working on buildings/roads and you'd have ten people on site: 8 standing\around while 2 do all the work [this was fairly common as far as I saw at least.]  :thumbup:

Here is the BLACK HOLE STORY ...


Texas County Official Sees Race in Term 'Black Hole'




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John Wiley Price is a idiot. The day BLACK HOLE becomes a racist term is a RED LETTER DAY. I mean I'm trying to WHITE WASH the story, but to be this easily offended is just YELLOW. I know next we'll offend aliens if we feel BLUE or even GREEN with envy.

What about people with chromosomal diseases where it's XXY or XXX or sometimes XO and that sort of thing, we can't have a miscellaneous bathroom because that's discrimination.



Seriously, with all the racism in the world you would think this guy has better things to do than eliminate the usage of color in names.  You know what, nobody can be green with envy anymore because green is the color of Ireland.  And Yellow by Coldplay, let's just delete that song from our memories because it's obviously an Anti-Asian song.  Don't even get me started on Goo Goo Doll's Black Balloon or the term Yellow-Bellied Coward.  actually, does anybody know how we got the term Yellow-Bellied, because that might actually be referring to Asians considering how old it was.  Still, I think this guy is just paranoid.

I'm with you, as long as you concede that the anti-Political Correctness crowd has become just another easily offended constituency, expending righteous indignation over superficial changes, regardless of whether their sensible or not.   

John Wiley Price is truly an idiot and has no business being involved in government at any level.  He is also the man responsible for getting Drive-In movie critic (and permanent Rev. Powell signature fixture) Joe Bob Briggs fired from his job at the Dallas Times Herald (read story here (http://www.joebobbriggs.com/biography.asp)).   He's the first guy I thought of when I heard "black hole", "racist"  and "Dallas county commissioner" mentioned in the same sentence.  Then I thought, there's no way this could be the same guy; even Dallas couldn't re-elect this guy for 20 years.  A quick trip to Google proved that I vastly overestimated the collective intelligence of the voters of District 3.

I'll give you that, but that seem to be the only language the PC, loony far left crowd understands is loud and indignant so since I have to learn more than one language (Nobama) I'll learn the language of loud and in your face, because sensible logic is just not working.

Actually, ol' Price was NOT the one who demanded an apology.  Of course, he couldn't keep his mouth shut once the meeting was over, either.  He has been arrested for illegal protests more times than I can count.

You're right: my bad.  Apparently he has a lapdog that's just as insane as he is.

Do you live in the Dallas area?  I lived there from 1986-1992, and I remember Price making headlines a few times.  I'm a bit shocked that he's still around. 

I agree, and I think it demonstrates the utter futility of trying to be completely inoffensive. The very act of doing so is offensive to some people.

Of course, that offense doesn't seem to be taken as seriously either.

Now I'm offended by that and I a want, nay DEMAND and public apology and 24 hours new coverage and analyst with at least a minimum of 15 pundits, 6 for, 6 against and 3 indifferent. Perhaps a pie chart and some sazzy graphics too. oh and one call in show for public opinion and maybe a talk show ... somewhere in Canada, a new one.
Damn people are so insensitive.

Patient7: Yes it is old.  It was once thought that the seat/source of courage was the liver (in the belly).  If your liver is not functioning properly, you become jaundiced which = yellow.  So: if you did not have the nerve (belly) to do something, you could be called 'yellow-bellied' since obviously your liver was falling short in courage production.

(Now back to our regularly scheduled discussion:  )