Comments on: P.C. overload http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/pc-overload/ Novelist, Dog-Lover, Bon Vivant Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:48:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gina http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/pc-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Gina Mon, 02 May 2005 06:21:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/pc-overload/#comment-291 >>So, do your kids ever ask if you're related to Sirius Black? <<<br/><br/>Kids are both too big to ask. Besides, they know I make stuff up. ;) >>So, do your kids ever ask if you’re related to Sirius Black? < <

Kids are both too big to ask. Besides, they know I make stuff up. ;)

]]> By: Larissa http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/pc-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Larissa Mon, 02 May 2005 02:24:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/pc-overload/#comment-290 LOL, Diana! You know what's funny? I have a criminal justice background, so that's almost EXACTLY what I said! *g* LOL, Diana! You know what’s funny? I have a criminal justice background, so that’s almost EXACTLY what I said! *g*

]]> By: Diana Peterfreund http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/pc-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-288 Diana Peterfreund Mon, 02 May 2005 01:25:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/pc-overload/#comment-288 Larissa, I would have said, "Funny, I thought most serial killers were Caucasian males. Thanks for the tip; I'm going to go sit over here now." What a schmuck.<br/><br/>Oh, Gina, that's so funny! I hadn't even thought of that. So, do your kids ever ask if you're related to Sirius Black? <br/><br/>Good Point, Marley! Larissa, I would have said, “Funny, I thought most serial killers were Caucasian males. Thanks for the tip; I’m going to go sit over here now.” What a schmuck.

Oh, Gina, that’s so funny! I hadn’t even thought of that. So, do your kids ever ask if you’re related to Sirius Black?

Good Point, Marley!

]]> By: Marley Gibson http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/pc-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Marley Gibson Sun, 01 May 2005 22:44:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/pc-overload/#comment-287 LOL...I hear you, Diana! Your "problem," if you have one, is that you hit on about five good subjects -- and I didn't even GET any of the Harry Potter talk. (Sorry...haven't read them.) We could have a whole discussion just on (in our world and the way it is today) how we have to be careful about editing any and all of our public comments. Things heard and overheard by other people. At what point do we get to where everything we say sounds like an official public statement or press release? If you say anything beyond that, you're setting yourself up to take a WHACK! <br/><br/>Me...personally, I'm wicked disturbed that the new pope was in the Hitler Jungend and was a German POW of the triumphant allied forces during WWII...but I digress... LOL…I hear you, Diana! Your “problem,” if you have one, is that you hit on about five good subjects — and I didn’t even GET any of the Harry Potter talk. (Sorry…haven’t read them.) We could have a whole discussion just on (in our world and the way it is today) how we have to be careful about editing any and all of our public comments. Things heard and overheard by other people. At what point do we get to where everything we say sounds like an official public statement or press release? If you say anything beyond that, you’re setting yourself up to take a WHACK!

Me…personally, I’m wicked disturbed that the new pope was in the Hitler Jungend and was a German POW of the triumphant allied forces during WWII…but I digress…

]]> By: Gina http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/pc-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Gina Sun, 01 May 2005 16:10:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/pc-overload/#comment-285 That happened to me once...I was talking to a friend at work about being on vacation with my husband and his family (this was not long after we'd gotten married) and said something about running around with a bunch of Blacks; I may have even compared them to mountain goats (they are so active compared to <i>moi</i> who prefers to find a perfect spot and read when on vacation, but I digress...). The point is, that's the last name--one I've been a proud bearer of for many years now. <br/><br/>People often hear what they want to hear. We do have the responsibility to make sense whenever possible, but this whole PC thing is so out of control it's beyond ludicrous. That happened to me once…I was talking to a friend at work about being on vacation with my husband and his family (this was not long after we’d gotten married) and said something about running around with a bunch of Blacks; I may have even compared them to mountain goats (they are so active compared to moi who prefers to find a perfect spot and read when on vacation, but I digress…). The point is, that’s the last name–one I’ve been a proud bearer of for many years now.

People often hear what they want to hear. We do have the responsibility to make sense whenever possible, but this whole PC thing is so out of control it’s beyond ludicrous.

]]> By: Larissa http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/pc-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-284 Larissa Sun, 01 May 2005 13:29:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/pc-overload/#comment-284 That kind of thing you mentioned with the Pope makes me insane. I had something similar happen a couple of years ago, and I JUST told my friends this:<br/><br/>I was in my EMT night class, and we had just come inside from a break. I mentioned to my friend that the creepy janitor was outside again, lurking in the shadows. It was weird. He would just hang out in the shadows with his broom and watch the women walk through campus and the parking lot. My rather active imagination got going, and I said he was probably a serial killer.<br/><br/>The hispanic guy behind me flipped out. "Oh, sure. Just because he's hispanic, he's a serial killer."<br/><br/>Uh...no. The guy was creepy, and it made no difference whether he was white, hispanic, black, Jewish, Catholic, Greek, or American. He was just creepy.<br/><br/>But this guy had such a chip on his shoulder that EVERYTHING was about being hispanic. Honestly, I hadn't even noticed what nationality/race the janitor was. Heck, it didn't register that the guy who got offended was hispanic because IT DOESN'T MATTER. He's a person. Period. <br/><br/>HE had the problem with race, not me. Yet from that day on, everyone in class had to be careful what they said because they were afraid it would get twisted into something racial. It was ridiculous.<br/><br/>Love the Harry Potter story! LOL That kind of thing you mentioned with the Pope makes me insane. I had something similar happen a couple of years ago, and I JUST told my friends this:

I was in my EMT night class, and we had just come inside from a break. I mentioned to my friend that the creepy janitor was outside again, lurking in the shadows. It was weird. He would just hang out in the shadows with his broom and watch the women walk through campus and the parking lot. My rather active imagination got going, and I said he was probably a serial killer.

The hispanic guy behind me flipped out. “Oh, sure. Just because he’s hispanic, he’s a serial killer.”

Uh…no. The guy was creepy, and it made no difference whether he was white, hispanic, black, Jewish, Catholic, Greek, or American. He was just creepy.

But this guy had such a chip on his shoulder that EVERYTHING was about being hispanic. Honestly, I hadn’t even noticed what nationality/race the janitor was. Heck, it didn’t register that the guy who got offended was hispanic because IT DOESN’T MATTER. He’s a person. Period.

HE had the problem with race, not me. Yet from that day on, everyone in class had to be careful what they said because they were afraid it would get twisted into something racial. It was ridiculous.

Love the Harry Potter story! LOL

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