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Banned Words
03-27-2012, 11:34 PM
I am getting really, really tired of this coddling people that want to live in a world of ignorance and idiocy.
War On Words: NYC Dept. Of Education Wants 50 ‘Forbidden' Words Banned From Standardized Tests
They want to live in their own little worlds where the Flintstones is a documentary instead of a sitcom? Fine. Just stop trying to make me, and the rest of the nation try to accommodate your fear-of-the-modern-world-based views so that you are not 'offended'. Specially since by doing so you are actually threatening our collective future.
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That doesn't leave a lot of ways to tell a story for a story problem, to be utterly blunt about it.
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Well, if they can't use those fifty words, how about replacing them with George Carlin's seven words you can't say on television? Is that all right?
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We should ban the word censorship, people are talking about it too much. /sarcasm
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Yet another step in the implementation of Newspeak, indeed....
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And people wonder why home-schooling is becoming ever more popular.
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What the hell kind of government do these people think we have going here? The People's Republic of China? The Democratic People's Republic of Korea? The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
Unfortunately, we seem to be leaning further and further in that direction.
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I thought Halloween suggested commercialism...
Also, do creationists claim that dinosaurs don't exist or something? I don't get it.
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My reaction to the list was as I posted on my facebook account that this was political correcteness taken to cloud cuckoo land levels of idiocy. Plus I'll add whoever came up with this list deserves to be tarred and feathered or alternatively placed in the stocks along with a couple buckets of suitably puterscent fuits for passerby to throw at them...
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Morganni Wrote:I thought Halloween suggested commercialism...
Also, do creationists claim that dinosaurs don't exist or something? I don't get it.
-Morgan. Seriously, who's going to claim their god couldn't have created dinosaurs? To a creationist, dinosaurs are either less than 6000 years old, or never existed -- God created a bunch of fake fossils and put them there to test us. Or the Devil did. And if the latter, then believing dinosaurs existed is Satanism! Oh McNo!
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I think we have too many lawyers. Worse yet, we let them run nations.
Seriously, is there something about passing the bar that makes you lose all common sense? What good does banning words do?
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Oh, I meant to mention this yesterday, but I heard a snippet on CBS radio news for NYC yesterday that said this whole thing had been scrapped, basically because of the public outcry and because the media coverage was making the Board of Ed look like idiots.
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I don't think the Board of Ed needed the media's help there...
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Indeed. The media wasn't making the Board of Ed look like idiots, the media was showing that the Board of Ed were idiots ... or at least, that they'd suffered a serious brain cramp when they came up with this notion.
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