I reserve the right to use these non-PC Terms

or, "when is a hermaphrodite NOT a hermaphrodite?"

from JoeUser Forums

Another blogger's thread was hijacked by a reader taking offense to the use of the word "hermaphrodite". Personally, I'm among the growing number of Americans who are becoming pissed by the "PC police" changing terms that were once acceptable just so they can brand the rest of us as being bigots because we didn't get the latest copy of "liberals weekly". To whit, I am reserving my right to continue to use the following terms:

  • hermaphrodites
  • retards
  • freaks
  • Indians
  • generic references to "mankind" with the gender specific pronoun "he"
  • idiots
  • morons
  • transsexuals
  • queers
  • midgets
  • dwarfs
  • handicapped
  • perverts
  • pollacks
  • airheads
  • more as I think of them

What about you, JU? Please feel free to list all the non-PC terms you reserve the right to retain.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Political correctness has reached an insane level in American society. I mean, what's wrong with calling a blind or deaf person 'handicapped'? Isn't that what they are? It's not being disrespectful or making fun of them.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oriental. The next time I hear someone say "Oriental" is for rugs and furniture, I'm going to beat the living shit out of them. Maybe they should learn what the hell an adjective is.
Multiplicity - Control multiple PCs using one keyboard and mouse
Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
blind - not sight challenged, blind is blind
deaf - not hearing impaired, hey he's deaf!
dumb/mute - not silent
stupid - not learning disabled, stupid is stupid ok?
crippled - not physically challeged
short - not vertically challenged. a dwarf is a dwarf dammit
redneck - not socially challenged
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Another thing that bothers me is when some people call every single person that lives in Africa an African-American. THEY CAN'T BE AFRICAN-AMERICAN IF THEY LIVE IN UGANDA!

Can you tell that some things bother me?
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
yeah, the Hermaphrodite debate entertained me also. I mean, it's not like the word doesn't have meaning. A meaning that describes who fits and who doesn't fit the term. It isn't a label, an insult or a personal shot, it's a fact.

A person born with neither male or female sex organs, or a person born with any or all of both, is in fact a Hermaphrodite.

It's ironic. At a time when we are supposed to recognize and honor anyone and everyone's sexual orientations, some liberal comes out and says you shouldn't recognize Hermaphrodites by using the very term that describes what they are.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
I have one... the stigma attached to a lot of words in the old psychological lexicon... when did CRAZY and PSYCHO get to be inappropriate terms.

TheFazz: You know what I've always wondered, and your query reminded me of it. Thinking about another country that has a notably significant Black population(yes, I still use the word "black"), I wonder what the PC term for someone from that race is in Great Britain.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
I use the word 'black', and 'Indian'. I have used the 'n' word, usually in the Dave Chappelle school of 'my niggah'. I don't believe we have the right to say "That's our word". A word is a word, if you use it, you can't fault anyone else for using it.

Bitch, whore, bastard, pervert, nutcase... I thought it would be easier to think of a list of terms I HAVEN'T said, but I can't think of any. I dunno, I'd say if there is an un-PC term out there I've used it more than once, either in seriousness or satire or a mixture of the two.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
I wonder what the PC term for someone from that race is in Great Britain.


I'd say that would be a "Black Bloke" ;~D
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Here's the ultimate un PC term:

Good Conservative! ;~D
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Another thing that bothers me is when some people call every single person that lives in Africa an African-American. THEY CAN'T BE AFRICAN-AMERICAN IF THEY LIVE IN UGANDA!

Can you tell that some things bother me?


tell me about it. Uhhhhh...African...Ameri...Can...Amer...Canadian. Oh, hell. Can I just say black?

Besides, since mankind originated in the Great Rift Valley, in East Africa, everyone's African-(insert country of current residence here). (Insert generic Dave Chappellian comment that I'm probably too afraid to type on account of my light skin here)
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Is anyone actually attempting to stop you using labels such as these, Gideon? Surely you HAVE the right to use these terms. And other people have the right to be offended by your use of them.

You're obviously quite comfortable referring to people as 'cripples, 'morons' or 'Indians', regardless of their feelings on the matter. However, when it comes to a topic that affects YOU, instead you issue a plea for understanding and sensitivity - see your blog thread, 'Just put the FORK down'. Interesting.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
" Is anyone actually attempting to stop you using labels such as these, Gideon? "


Actually, yes, we face punishment for using them every day. Actually, wasn't there a blog recently about a guy who should have expected to be fired for using the word "beaner"?

Hmm...
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
'My British Hubby and I talked about this long ago. They make no distinction. Blacks there simply call themselves Englishmen, as do all other Englishmen, regardless of race.'
Absolute nonsense. This must be some other England than the one I know!
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
"As far as homosexuals go, I'm rather fond of 'turd-burglar' and you couldnt convince me to retire that phrase for anything in the world."


You just think you heard me suggest "fudge packer", but you really didn't. That wouldn't be PC.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
Here's my list (hope i don't offend too much)

1. Limey: Sorry Emperor.......I'm irish.
2. Jack-booted nazi thug: My favorite term for describing uber righties. (NOTE: Mod, Guy, Miler do not fall into this catagory folks) Think Anne Coulter or Dick Cheney.
3. Fagtastic: An adjective that describes some of the great things and people in the gay community. My friend Miles (who is gay) taught me that one.
4. Motarded: a term used by some in Utah to describe some of the wacky things LDS folks do.
5. Mick: As previously stated i'm of Irish decent. I consider it an honor that the brits hate us enough to think this one up.
6. Limp dick liberal: Yes i do hate the extreme far left as much as i do the extreme far right. I'm keeping the guns and the money!
7. Bitch: They are out there ladies!
8. Cracker ass cracker: Ever been to Alabama? I have! Thanks to Chris Rock for this one.
9. Dyke: Some lesbians just don't fit the title of "lipstick lesbo" folks...
10. Molly Mo Ho: Another Utah term that describes how slutty some of these chaste LDS women really are. Apparantly giving blowjobs isn't enough to keep you out of the Celestial Kingdom!

BONUS: BLOWJOB! All men like em. How come Rush gets in trouble when he says it and the rest of us have been saying it with great enthusiasm all these years!
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
I wonder what the PC term for someone from that race is in Great Britain.


I'd say that would be a "Black Bloke" ;~D


That all depends. There used to be a lot of slang terms for black people:

Spade
Sooty
Wog
Jig
Darkie
Sambo

Hmm...my own un-PC terms that I'm going to keep using regardless are:

Midget
Dwarf
Crippled/disabled/handicapped
Deaf
Blind
Retard/retarded
Indian

I'm with you on the African-American thing too. That's iritated me for years.
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm with you on the African-American thing too. That's iritated me for years.


The thing is, not only is it a sorry-ass attempt at political correctness, it isn't even accurate or descriprive to who peoiple are referring to. Would a black person from Jamaica be African American? What about a white guy from South Africa? What about any of the above in Canada?

I reserve the right to call people from Newfoundland Newfies and make Newfie jokes. Rex Murphy, Danny Williams and an unemplyed cod fisheman walk into a bar...

And I reserve the right to use the words fat, gay, black, white, native, etc. Why use 5 or 6 syllables when you can just use one?
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
I have always had a particular preference for one that comes from the trucking industry and is applicable across all races/creeds/colors: crackerhead.

It just has a nice ring to it as it rolls off the tongue.

And you crackerheads need to get a life. (That one's for you LW)
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
We need to also protect our right to tell blonde jokes. Let's face it, 2 relatively smart people and one stupid person walk into a bar just isn't funny! That goes for Newfie jokes too
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
Diesel Dyke.... Havent heard that onein a while Whip! Is that the kind that rolls their own tampons?

Ok, i might have crossed a line there...DOH!
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
Not to worry, you Paddy, Mick, Potatoe-eating, Bog-Trotting, Papal Baby Factory, Gobshite!


I prefer (from a "Don King" interview skit on Conan O'Brien) Freckle-sporting, Whiskey-Snorting, and Leprechaun-cavorting.
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
I like "Papal Baby Factory".

And ya cant go wrong with Don King in offensiveness diamondback!
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
And ya cant go wrong with Don King in offensiveness diamondback!


Well, it was a fake Don King, you know, with the lips on the picture on the tv monitor.
Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top

However, when it comes to a topic that affects YOU, instead you issue a plea for understanding and sensitivity - see your blog thread, 'Just put the FORK down'. Interesting.

First of all,furry, if you couldn't see the tongue in cheek nature of this post,I apologize. I have never taken umbrage with someone calling me a "fatass", I just take issue with the stereotypes based on ignorance.

And yes,in fact,people try to stop the use of these terms. This whole thing started when someone went on another person's thread taking offense to the use of the word "hermaphrodite" as opposed to "intersexed". The point of this article is that PC has gone off the deep end, and I'm sure pretty much everyone's in agreement on this.