I'll take you at your word for it.

It seems like if I tried to understand why you felt that it was political correctness when I didn't, you feel like it would make you discuss things in a way that was offensive. So I just want you to know that I respect that a lot.

Also, thanks for considering my viewpoint and not responding in an angry or offensive way, because I didn't mean to come across as confrontational or harsh. If I did, please accept this public apology.

How would you like to struggle every day knowing that you should be doing better but just cant seem to do so. Knowing what the right thing is most of the time but its just out of your grasp. Who is retarded?

My sister is autistic, but she can rattle off facts that most people would never know. She can hear violin music at a park and not only tell you who wrote it but when they wrote it and where the artist lived when they wrote it. But she will never drive a car, so many things we take for granted she will never be able to do. She has tried to take her own life twice and has now been diagnosed as a schizophrenic. She is 23 with the mental level of a 12 year old. She is loud and always drawing looks from people that don’t understand. She lives in another state so I don’t see her very often, my mother is getting older and it brings me to tears to think about each of their futures. They have it hard enough, no one needs to add to it. I don’t think its PC, its just the right thing to do.

quote Originally posted by intlcutlass: The ONLY problem with that philosphy is that this is a cycle. Adults say it.. kids hear it.. kids repeat it.. kids hurt someone..the victim grows "Thick skin".. That kids grows up and allows this to perpetuate.

while we are on the subject of name calling. it got me thinking of a couple of events. a year or two ago i was outside doing some work. three 3rd-maybe 4th graders got off the bus. two white kids and a black kid. i hear one of the white kids say "i'm not the one who called you a ni**er, it was so and so." the kids talked as they walked down the side walk then went their ways.

i just sat there for a few moments. when did grade schoolers start saying ****** ? hell i grew up in the country in a small town. don't think i heard the word until 5th grade and even then didn't know what it meant.

then last week i was hanging up x-mas lights. i hear "Whore!" i look over to see some high school boys driving by in a car yelling at a girl, probably a sophmore or so, who was walking down the side walk. wtf? she didn't look like a whore. i really felt bad for her as whe walked by looking at the ground.

i'm not terribley old but i just didn't do that kind of stuff when i was younger. trouble maker yes, name calling..well i was more creative.

i'm not a violent person but if i EVER hear some jackass call my girls a "whore" they better be bigger or faster than me.

Oops - I accidentally hit "refresh" on my ipaq this morning.

Well ... I'll call it a bump...

[This message has been edited by Saxman (edited 12-01-2006).]