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Published: 2007-01-11 13:47:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 22721; Favourites: 556; Downloads: 0
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Anyone with a spine knows that this has gotten out of hand. Bitch machines think they have a right to shut other people up because they are (way too easily) offended.It is not right that one has to speak in the same way as one walks through a mine field. Every word could possibly offend someone. You know what? It's not right. I won't even get into the stupid specific sugar-coatings that go around because it'd be so much that dA would explode when you opened this page. Words are simply a translation of the mind. Getting rid of the words does not get rid of the ideas, so why bother? Stop trying to control everything.
One day, I got a bit of a sting when I had to pause to think of the right non-offensive word to say. That was when I let go and started talking freely. Have you had your turning point yet?
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I've been wanting to make a poster about this subject for a while; I got the idea one day, and decided that it was perhaps the best approach. Like I always say, seemed like a good idea at the time.
I drew the shape in vector and then the specific letters accordingly with the pen tool. Come to think of it......this is perhaps my first 100% vector piece.
After the vector was done, I was ready to add some slogans and different color bars for the title and all. But I quickly grew tired of those and felt they were unnecessary. It started to look more like a book cover than a poster. So I decided to strip everything (as they say, less is more) and leave the vector, the main message, and enough hints to realize that the "politically correct" is about to eat shit.
Lighten up, grow a thicker skin, speak freely, and
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Lemme tell ya' Bud, I been "there" for a couple years now. Thick skin... sure... I've found though that the PC Police aren't so tough in person as you think from internet forums like the ones we find around here.
Wicked cool poster, though Dude. Cool beans.
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Problem is, you can't speak freely in the U.S.A. anymore. Sooner, or later it'll be a crime to speak your mind.
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Political correctness is what led to Ambassador Stevens' death. It gets people killed.
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Every one has the right to be offended, no one has the right not to be
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But when does the right to be offended intrude in the right to free speech? And I'm talking free speech in general, not the 1st ammendment in the US.
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Thanks. Thank you so damn much. This. Exactly this. I don't even know what it is, but it is.
Okay, before I start to sound like a yaoi fangirl drooling over her favourite couple... thanks for expressing my thoughts in a nice, simple work of art.
Just to tell you why: PC is even worse in my mother tongue. People, especially politicians, tend to female-ify everything, even things that are. not. female. Can't be.
We're already joking that in a few years, they'll say "Sehr geehrte Damen und Daminnen, Herren und Herrinnen, Eltern und Elterinnen, Kinder und Kinderinnen. Wir mΓΆchten Sie zu unserer Veranstaltung und Veranstaltungin einladen..."
("Dear ladies and female ladies, gentlemen and female gentlemen, parents and female parents, children and female children. We would like to invite you to our event and female event...")
Seriously. Formal letters nearly sound like that. It's horrible.
And all the other stuff too! (I just read that "Is it because I'm BLACK?" comment and thought: If that was a valid argument, would "Is it because I'm WHITE?" be valid argument, too? Funny people don't use that. "Uh-huh? You don't want me to punch you in the stomach? Is it because I'm AMERICAN?")
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they just want to bottle everything up......speak free, LIVE FREE...
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The problem with political correctness is that it seems less that what you're saying is offending people, but more that idiot politicians think it might offend people.
And it wouldn't surprise me at all if people became easily offended thanks to paranoid politicians.
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People just need to learn to take a freaking joke. 3:
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You're quite right, words are simply a translaion of the mind, and so on.
Your poster are hilarious. And, most of them true.
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I completly agree, which of course drives my very p.c wife up the wall...
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I like this. There's too much political correctness in the world. People are whimps who get offended too easily. We would be a stronger species if more people could take some offence and just laugh it off.
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Fuck yes, sometimes trying to say things "nicely" really takes away what you truly meant to say.
Just say what's on your fuckin' mind :3
Si esto fuera en espaΓ±ol, que nos valga verga xD
But there are times when respect should be held, and that causes us to swallow some of the shit we were about to say.
Either way, there's a paradox for EVERYTHING, so the "Fuck it" option helps a shitload.
\freedom of cursing
( notice the \, and not / )
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Amen to that one. People are too easily offended nowadays. Wimps.
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I love how the "censorship" word mass is crap colored and shaped like a turd. That's just... lovely.
And heck! While this makes a wonderful and all too true poster, why should it only be confined to your room? I want to see this on a T-shirt!
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Quite the shirt that'd make
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I agree with the message behind this work, and would like to posit an example of the stages of PC.
1- "invalid" Okay, that name's actually kinda mean in an understated way. I wouldn't wanna be called that.
2- "cripple" Still kinda unpleasant, not something I'd like to be called.
3- "handicapped" There we go. Stop now, pack up, and go home. If I'm handicapped, I have no problem being called handicapped.
4- "disabled" That works too...
5- "special needs" Umm, now you sound patronizing. Please, can we go back to handicapped?
6- "differently abled" What the fuck? If I'm quadrupalegic, I'm not differently abled, or I'd have fucking mind lasers.
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Nice! This should be a graphic wheel illustrating the point
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Do you want to make it, or should I?
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Ah, what a linguistic orgasm it is to discover when somebody else makes that exact point you've been making or have been trying to make for years.
Explaining to people about this mechanism of free speech doesn't always work though, and it is often followed by criticism and strange frustration. This is a behaviour I just can't stand, there's nothing I hate more than spineless bitches. When people say "You can't say you hate something, you must say 'I like this less' - what if anybody's offended?", "You can't say that something is gay/fucked up/retarded" I just want to bash their head in with an intellectual mallet.
It makes me feel very happy when people express the same thoughts that I've had for years. Hopefully there are plenty of other people with these thoughts, most of 'em just seem to make hell of a good show to hide it and play by the safe fucking rules.
That's it, stop posing and get real. Now see what long a rant you made me write 
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They tried to ban the word, "retard," at my school. It was silly. I got a referral because I told my English teacher that the banning itself was retarded, and there are more offensive word out there, like nigger.
Anyway. Nice piece, man. :
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It is unfortunate that some of the least qualified people are supervising the people who haven't had a chance to become qualified. Teach students in an atmosphere of being nannied and stifled, and they'll grow up to think that you can ban words.
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Wow that teacher was retarded.
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you rule for this comment
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I agree.
I also hate it when people use their race as an excuse to be a bitch.
"It's 'cause I'm BLACK, ain't it?"
No matter WHO does it, it's annoying as fuck!
I'm all.
"No, this has NOTHING to do with your color. But it DOES have EVERYTHING to do with the fact you're being a bitch"
Am I RIGHT?!
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With very few cases, "because I'm black" is a hilarious line.
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Someone actually used it on me today.
Lmao.
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dude, thats so true, like what the fuck is up with the world
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Happy holidays is on my list of retarded statements.
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Which is retarded because it has nothing to do with being politically correct. It refers to Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's, which are all part of the Holiday Season. It's where Season's Greetings comes from, too. People were saying Happy Holidays more than fifty years ago.
There are more important things to get upset about than manufactured controversies.
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Uh... Not really. (if i'm reading what you said correctly)
People are saying Happy Holidays today to be politically correct for those who celebrate Hannukka, Kwanza, and various other days during the Christmas season.
You tell me Merry Christmas and I'll tell you happy Kwanza, and we be happy.
Every controversy is manufactured.
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Look, it can't be helped if some people mean Hannukah and Kwanzaa when they say Happy Holidays, but that's not where it comes from and that's not how the majority of people mean it. Palindrome doesn't mean turd because you want it to.
You also don't understand the difference between organic controversies and manufactured ones. Manufactured ones, like the War on Christmas, are deliberately started by people like Bill O'Reilly to feed their victim complex or to serve a political purpose. Organic controversies stem from legitimate concerns that people may have about a given issue or problems that don't have obvious solutions. Not every controversy is "manufactured" unless you change the meaning of manufactured to suit your purposes, just as Bill O and friends have changed the meaning of Happy Holidays to suit theirs.
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Cafeta. You can get it at dafont.com
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Love the image, the message is significant and true, and I love the term "bitch machines".
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I agree very much with you, especially because I once got into an argue in a forum because of this. It was about a Role Playing Game/Forum, in which my character died. My character drank poison, because I found no easier way to make her die. Someone answered to this totally outraged, I'd write about suicide/assisted suicide, and that I totally crossed a line. This really sounds like what I wrote was out of mind, but it wasn't. I learned a lot about criticism with this. The whole community was behind me, because that girl obviously was totally into censorship.
Really folks, if you write something-anything-someone will always feel offended. No matter what you write. Don't feel like you're crossing lines because of it. Don't throw away/delete/take back things you said. It's not worth it. If you really meant what you wrote, let it be. Do you think J.K. Rowling cares about that Harry Potter's in the list of the "Most Forbidden Books"? Hell no.
I know what you think, that's an easy example, but it's harder not to take back something when you get attacked yourself, isn't it? Trust me, it's worth fighting for free speech.
Thank you for this.
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