What in the nine hells....?
Nov. 17th, 2003 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nadrielThis just in:
San Diego State is following suit in political correctness with other universities across the country by dropping the word "foreign" from the general catalog's "Foreign Language Requirement."
Members of the Undergraduate Council, who drafted a rationale, in support of this initiative wrote: "The term 'foreign' has been used to designate something alien and is as ethnocentric and inappropriate as using 'oriental' to designate a person of Asian descent."
Okay, may I just take a moment to restrain myself from travelling over to San Deigo and giving the mother of all bitch slaps to this Undergraduate Council.
I mean, I already regarded political correctness as the most arrant load of stupidity I've seen in quite some time, but this really is taking the piss...
San Diego State is following suit in political correctness with other universities across the country by dropping the word "foreign" from the general catalog's "Foreign Language Requirement."
Members of the Undergraduate Council, who drafted a rationale, in support of this initiative wrote: "The term 'foreign' has been used to designate something alien and is as ethnocentric and inappropriate as using 'oriental' to designate a person of Asian descent."
Okay, may I just take a moment to restrain myself from travelling over to San Deigo and giving the mother of all bitch slaps to this Undergraduate Council.
I mean, I already regarded political correctness as the most arrant load of stupidity I've seen in quite some time, but this really is taking the piss...
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Date: 2003-11-17 02:08 am (UTC)Why, yes, yes I am a bigot, and rightly so.
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Date: 2003-11-17 02:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-11-17 07:39 am (UTC)Anywhere, any time any place, anyone.
We've got a similar P.C issue in Somerset. It's carnival time, and a friend of the family funs a carnival club. This year their float's theme was Black and white Minstrels. The volume of letters to complain to local papers is shocking. Correct me if I'm wrong, but can anything be racist if the negros don't actually care and it's not intended as racism? We just have a load of bored white people championing someone else's cause when they don't want it championed, just to relieve the boredom of a life on the Dole.
OK, there are a lot of stupid people in the UK too. Crap.