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<DIV><SPAN class=284160919-20022005><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=4>now you need to apologize to Riggin-ites.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=284160919-20022005><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=4>you see how it goes? </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=284160919-20022005><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=4>AND I agree with you actually. Just pointing out some
absurdities.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Joan Opyr<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:46
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Vision2020 Moscow<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Three easy
pieces<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>LuJane Nisse opines:</DIV>
<DIV><BR>"All this political correct stuff makes my head spin. You need a
degree in<BR>PCness."</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So-called political correctness, AKA respect for diversity
within the public discourse, is actually quite easy to master. The
rules are simple:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>It's bad, bad manners.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment <BR><A
href="http://www.auntie-establishment.com">www.auntie-establishmentcom</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>PS: I don't mean to single out residents of Riggins. It just
alliterated so nicely with "rock."<BR></DIV><BR clear=all>
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