Got this in the mail today, and thought it was appropriate (although a
little "edgy") to pass along:

>Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:47 PM
>Subject: FW: Definition!!

>The following is the 2007 winning entry from an annual contest at Texas A&M University
>calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term. This year a definition was
>required for the contemporary term, 'Political Correctness'. The winner wrote:

>  'Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly
>promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which
>holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.'


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Tamar Raine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> monday at commission, our new vice chair got on somebody because they used "disabled housing" instead of housing for people with disabilities.......... she said, "i don't know what disabled housing looks like".   sigh............
>
> I thought of my poem, "the cerebral palsy lady", and wondered what she would say about that.
> and about the local comic who says; oh oh i see wheelchair girl, when he sees me.
> it's truly insane, and sigh................ and i knew it had gone overboard when i was reading the disability studies listserv, and, this professor was saying the expression;
> "Stand your ground" was hurtful to folks who can't stand,,,,,,,,,, GMAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "Cleveland, Kyle E." <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:36:17 AM
> Subject: Re: what were your childhoods like?
>
> Kendall and all.
>
> Back a couple years ago when I was completing my career as a
> professional part-time student <insert melancholy sigh here> my academic
> adviser and department chair (communications) also happened to be the
> Campus Commissar for Political Correctness.  In order to complete the
> program I had to take one of her silly courses in "Contemporary
> Subcultures", or some such nonsense.  We delved into such varied and
> esoteric topics as the "Schism Between Roman Catholicism and Greek
> Orthodoxy as Expressed in Cathedral Architecture" (I kid you not) and
> "Alternative Lifestyles and the Native American Experience".
>
> Anyway, we got around to the evolution of social group names (e.g.,
> "negro" became "black" became "African American") and how progressive
> societies elevated social groups by making current labels offensive and
> creating new labels that were supposed to magically raise socioeconomic
> status.  We were lectured ad nauseum about how hurtful these labels were
> to said groups.  Go figure.
>
> So she got around to me and said, "Kyle, when you were a child, you were
> 'crippled', then you became 'disabled'.  Our progressive society has
> come to learn that 'disabled' still carries baggage, so you'll be
> pleased to know that you are not DIS-abled, but 'differently abled'.
> Doesn't that make you feel empowered?"
>
> "Only if it scores me an "A" in this class", says I.
>
> The sarcasm blew past her like a kid getting ready to score his first
> beer.
>
> Says Prof. PC, "Kyle, can you give us an example how your "different
> abilities" have made your life "different"?
>
> "Sure.  I got this plastic thingy I can hang on my rear-view
> mirror--looks like a guy sitting on a commode.  Anyway, I can hang that
> thing up and park right next to the mall at Christmas-time while the
> rest of you have to drag your sorry arses a half-mile!  (In the words of
> Napoleon Dynamite, 'Lucky!')."
>
> She STILL didn't get it!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Kendall D. Corbett
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 1:50 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: what were your childhoods like?
>
> <snip>
>
> I also don't see an accessible parking space (for example) as a
> privilege,
> but as a way for a business to assure that they'll get my business.
> It's
> too bad that enough businesses didn't see the economic advantages to
> implementing the provisions of the ADA voluntarily, as pwd's (and
> elders)
> are potentially the largest segment of the economy.  If businesses want
> our
> money and talent, it's incumbent upon them to ensure we can get in the
> door,
> and get around inside, as customers or employees.
>
> I'd also be interested to hear about the "special privileges" your
> disability has entitled you to.
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Kendall

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

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