[Vision2020] Three easy pieces

[LuJane Nisse publisher]

now you need to apologize to Riggin-ites.
you see how it goes?
AND I agree with you actually. Just pointing out some absurdities.

  -----Original Message-----
  From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]On Behalf Of Joan Opyr
  Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:46 AM
  To: Vision2020 Moscow
  Subject: [Vision2020] Three easy pieces


  LuJane Nisse opines:

  "All this political correct stuff makes my head spin. You need a degree in
  PCness."


  So-called political correctness, AKA respect for diversity within the
public discourse, is actually quite easy to master.  The rules are simple:

  1. Don't call people by names they have told you they don't like.  If
these seem to change from week to week, perhaps that's because it doesn't
take long for the majority culture to turn a newly positive term into a
pejorative.  We're good at that; witness what we did with "Black is
beautiful."  We giggled and snorted (or pissed and moaned) about no longer
being "allowed" to use negro; then, the next thing we knew, the approved
term was African-American.  Polish- and German- and Swedish-Americans were
up in arms!  What was wrong with black after all?  It was so much shorter!
Get a grip on yourselves and call people what they wish to be called.

  2. When caught using an iffy or offensive terms, say, "I'm sorry.  I
didn't know.  I won't do it again."  This lesson, as any parent can tell
you, is directly-related to the "Please" and "Thank you" lessons we give our
children to get them ready for kindergarten.

  3. Don't tell jokes that involve ethnic groups other than your own in
which the representative of that ethnic group A) speaks pidgen English and
B) is called Chief, Tonto, Squaw, Polack, Kike, Spic, Wop, or the N-word.
Unless you've been living under a rock in Riggins, you know these terms are
offensive.  You also know that the buffalo joke isn't really about middle
management  It's an excuse to tell a joke along the lines of "There were
three nuns humping a dead alligator" in a public forum.

  It's bad, bad manners.

  Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
  www.auntie-establishmentcom

  PS: I don't mean to single out residents of Riggins.  It just alliterated
so nicely with "rock."



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