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[Willco]

Top 10 Politically Incorrect Phrases

It's a computer term. That's all it is. But the phrase "master/slave," which was been banned as racially offensive by the Los Angeles County purchasing department, has been named the most politically incorrect term of the year by the word usage group Global Language Monitor, reports Reuters. Among computer scientists, "master/slave" refers to primary and secondary hard disk drives.

"We found 'master/slave' to be the most egregious example of political correctness in 2004," Paul JJ Payack, president of The Global Language Monitor, told Reuters. "This is but one more example of the insertion of politics into every facet of modern life, down to the level of the control processes of computer technology."

Other words considered politically-charged, so watch what you say:
--Non-same sex marriage (to describe heterosexual unions)
--Waitron (for waiter or waitress)
--Higher being (for God, but "higher being" is a term some people found too religious)
--Red Sox lover (instead of Yankee hater)
--Progressive (for classical liberal)
--Incurious (used to describe President Bush)
--Insurgents (instead of terrorists)
--Baristas (for waiters)
--First year student (instead of freshman)

... first year student? Whacky, whacky world we live in.

 

[AstroLad]

Nigger
Spic
Kike
Faggot

Those are my Top 4, in no order. I can't believe stupid-ass "politically correct" people think it's "wrong" to say these things. Get a life, faggots!

 

[bjork]

Red Sox Lover!

I can't ever imagine using that in daily conversation.

 

[kumanoki]

You want politically charged? Try googling 'road map'. I guarantee you Rand McNally doesn't even appear on the first fvcking page.

 

[Zilch]

--Non-same sex marriage (to describe heterosexual unions)

Re-fucking-tarded.

 

[MIMIC]

"Insurgents" is a no-no word for conservatives.

 

[Mega Man's Electric Sheep]

In Canada, whenever they're talking about Native issues on the news, they say "Natives and Non-Natives". As if everyone who isn't Native is the same, or is against their interests....

 

[AstroLad]

In Canada, whenever they're talking about Native issues on the news, they say "Natives and Non-Natives". As if everyone who isn't Native is the same, or is against their interests....

Uh... people also say "whites and non-whites" (yes, non KKK people). It's a little bit easier than saying "Natives and... blacks, latinos, pacific islanders" when your main purpose is to distinguish the "native" group (e.g. statistically, whatever).

 

[videogamer]

"Insurgents" is a no-no word for conservatives.

They successfully got rid of the term "resistance fighters".

Astrolad: of course you can say what you want, but remember that you reap what you sow.

 

[AstroLad]

They successfully got rid of the term "resistance fighters".

Astrolad: of course you can say what you want, but remember that you reap what you sow.

What you don't think those terms are "politically incorrect?" I think they're way more politically incorrect than the rest of that shit. As for my last comment, I was being facetious if there wasn't quite enough sarcasm dripping from that statement.

 

[videogamer]

What you don't think those terms are "politically incorrect?" I think they're way more politically incorrect than the rest of that shit. As for my last comment, I was being facetious if there wasn't quite enough sarcasm dripping from that statement.

I do think that they are politically incorrect.

 

[Mega Man's Electric Sheep]

Uh... people also say "whites and non-whites" (yes, non KKK people). It's a little bit easier than saying "Natives and... blacks, latinos, pacific islanders" when your main purpose is to distinguish the "native" group (e.g. statistically, whatever).

Oh "uh" yourself. I still think it's stupid to identify people like that. Why must you have a term at all? What's next, Non-gays?

 

[AstroLad]

Oh "uh" yourself. I still think it's stupid to identify people like that. Why must you have a term at all? What's next, Non-gays?

Let's say you're doing a study on diabetes. In Arizona, the Native population is definitely one worth specifically examining and targeting. For example. And if you want to relate their rates of diabetes to the rest of the population, well non-natives seems fine to me.

 

[Mega Man's Electric Sheep]

well, the news does this when talking about Native protests and such, not scientific studies.

 

[AstroLad]

well, the news does this when talking about Native protests and such, not scientific studies.

Yeah, I can see how that may be seen as polarizing in that context, but the use of Native/non isn't inherently political.

 

[Mega Man's Electric Sheep]

Ok, as long as you can see where I'm coming from.......I can agree with that.

 

[Brannon]

Holy shit in a chapel Batman, that's a dumb list.

 

[DCharlie]

"--Waitron (for waiter or waitress)"
what the hell is politically incorrect about waiter / waitress?

 

[kaching]

Don't you know? Waiters and Waitresses are actually robots. Hence 'Waitron' (followed by model number starting with the 1000 series) is not only politically correct, it's simply more accurate

 

[Ecrofirt]

blackie blackenson

 

[Templar Wizard]

i would remove the F-word pretty fast, irregardless of context.
i suffered a banstick for the same crime.

stupid list.

 

[sc0la]

chink in the armor
coon in yard
dike by the bay
smoke a fag

 

[firex]

no, it's because... it ends in man. you know, like how it's now "chairperson" instead of chairman and shit. stupid.

edit: i mean that calling it politically incorrect is stupid, nothing personal.

 

[Shinobi]

"Minority" is a term that makes me sick. In my mind it equates to being lesser than, and I'll be damned if I consider myself that way. I doubt white people living in Asia are called a minority.

The funny thing is that it's mainly non-white people who use the term for themselves. Just makes no sense to me.