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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Actually, your point about Dunkin' Donuts response being a form of bending to "poitical correctness" is an interesting point. Your general attitude is what sucks. As for the troll comment, I was reacting directly to your comment that you enjoy pissing people off...
In retrospect, I was wrong.
Quite frankly, I am not sure that Dunkin Donuts' response can be so easily equated to so-called political correctness. Would you call the whole "freedom fries" issue a form of political correctness? From my point of view, I see the two non-events coming from the same reactionary source.
Whereas, I see the so-called politically correct movement as rising out of a minority attempting to control how they are defined by mass culture (i.e. blacks demanding they be called African American rather than Negro or Nigger).
From where I am sitting, Malkin's efforts seek to reinstate the monolithic control of cultural definitions in the face of a diversity of definitions.
What do you think Matthew?
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Well this is no fun...but okay
"freedom fries" has nothing to do with political correctness - it's intent, albeit lame, was Americans (its fast food anyway) thumbing its nose at the french (dare I say...irony) when they were being dicks.
The African American/Negro analogy as it relates to the "so-called" politically correct movement is outdated at least as of 1997 (PCU release? - memory may be off a little bit). There's much more to it than that. The lefts version of this movement (as if theres any other besides this thread topic) has gotten ridiculously out of hand, which is why i find the reaction so.....entertaining. If you didn't see the truth in that I don't think you'd find my point the least bit interesting, which is why I think your african american analogy is a bit of a cop-out.
So there's gotta be more to it - why do you find my point interesting, Charlatan?