Has political correctness gone too far (especially during the winter season)?

[The Arizonan]

I keep forgetting about this, but I felt like posting a thread on this topic. Do you guys think that there is too much political correctness these days? Examples would be Governor Lincoln Chafee (who got a measley 36.1% of the vote despite the fact of who his father is) calling the Christmas tree a 'holiday tree' two years in a row and a federal judge in California not allowing a nativity scene in Santa Monica, CA.

Then there are other examples, like the Seattle City Council circulating a memo telling members not to use words like "citizen" and "brown bag" last year and how Family Guy actually got cancelled on a few networks. Let's not forget about the schools in New Jersey banning Christmas songs.

I'm not the kind of person who goes out of his way to offend people, but I'm not going to look over my shoulder every two seconds wondering if I offended someone.

[The Arizonan]

How exactly is Family Guy a vulgar show? I know it's considered offensive by some people.

I'm confused...how is "citizen" a bad word? And is "brown bag" referring to lunch or is that some sort of racial slur I haven't heard of?

Citizen is not a bad word, but not everyone who lives in Seattle is an American citizen, hence the memo.

As for the word "brown bag", it was used as a term to refer to black people that were several shades lighter. It was used as a racial term, but still.

[The Arizonan]

Which episode of Family Guy used abortion as a punchline? I don't think I saw the episode because I don't recall anything like that.

[The Arizonan]

Yes, people need to chill out and not be offended by the measliest things. Both the left and right are responsible for this. The right for trying to censore "immorality" as they call it. The left trying censor religious speech or stupid words like "penmanship". Political correctness needs to be forgotten and abolished so we can freely express ourselves like normal human beings. 

I agree. I think it's kind of silly when someone says we shouldn't use words like 'man-made' and 'congressman'.

On another note, I think it is kind of silly to use the word 'congressman' because there are representatives in the House that are women and some states (HI, NH, SD, WY) don't have a single congressman. Hehehe. Someone actually asked me "Who is the congressman from South Dakota?".

[The Arizonan]

I just want to put a huge bronze cross on my barracks room door just to see what happens.

[The Arizonan]

Did you guys hear about how the Christmas Parade in Tulsa, OK was renamed the "Holiday Parade"? What kind of bullsh**t is that?

And there have been people trying to get Maddox's 'The Best Page in the Universe' shutdown. At some places, I can't view the website because of Websense. Apparently, millions of porn sites pose little threat compared to some guy posting his opinions on his website.

[The Arizonan]

I don't think that the Washington Redskins should change their name and I think that illegal immigrants should still be called illegal immigrants.

[The Arizonan]

I agree with Senator Goldwater.

My mother, my aunt, and my cousin all immigrated to this country from the Philippines legally, why can't they?

[The Arizonan]

My mother was born in the Philippines, but I was born in Reno, NV. I'm just bringing that up in case there is any confusion.

In all of my life, I've never met anyone from the Philippines who immigrated here illegally. All of my relatives on my mother's side of the family who weren't born here in the United States and came here went the legal route.

As for illegal immigration, there are, of course, immigrants who are here through no fault of their own because their parents brought them here at a very young age without the paperwork. What percentage of immigrants who haven't taken the legal route consists of them?

[The Arizonan]

I am in the military and they don't send memos about the usage of language and words. We just get training sessions about what to say and not to say.

Anyone else remember when New York made it illegal to say the n-word? Am I the only person here who thought it was a waste of taxpayer dollars to pass that legislation? It's just a goddamned six-letter word.