Terms used or things we once did, that are now "un pc"

[earthbrown]

We used to say, sitting "indian style"

now students are told to sit "cross legged"

[joethebartender]

When I was a little boy, my favorite book to have read to me was "un pc":

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[sailor]

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[Ritalin]

This happened to me at a kids party recently. One of my friends was asking me about buying a new camera, because he felt that a more expensive camera would make his pictures better. I told him that his pictures were nice and that a better camera wouldn't make his shots that much better. Then I said "it's not the arrow, it's the indian", and off to the side of my friend, sort of behind him one of the mothers who was Indian, like from Bombay Indian gives me this dirty look like I had said something offensive.

Oy vay.

[west milly Tom]

Oriental, referring to a person not a thing.

[Ritalin]

Oriental, referring to a person not a thing.

My dad does that one, makes me laugh.

I don't know what's wrong with oriental. I actually prefer asian, it's just a nicer sounding word, good rebranding, but what was inherently offensive about oriental?

[WRESTLINGFAN]

Janitor is now custodial engineer, Stewardess is now a flight attendant ,Secratary is an Admin Assistant

[underdog]

My dad does that one, makes me laugh.

I don't know what's wrong with oriental.

I always thought it was because it's not accurate.

[A.J.]

I don't know what's wrong with oriental. I actually prefer asian, it's just a nicer sounding word, good rebranding, but what was inherently offensive about oriental?

It's nowhere near as offensive as occidental.

[instrument]

N-knocking is now ring & run.

f'n n's

[Dude!]

calling chicks endearing names like
sweetie pie
hun
toots
etc

[Furtherman]

Remember we use to say "Get off my lawn!"

Now we say, "Obama is coming for my guns but I'm ready for the race war!"

[Misteriosa]

I still have problems with these two:

... calling developmentally delayed people retarded

... calling down syndrome kids mongoloids...

since i work in medical and come across these types of people. i have to keep reminding myself that those words are not professionally acceptable.

[west milly Tom]

calling chicks endearing names like
sweetie pie
hun
toots
etc



I use the terms tootse and braud all the time. Women pretend they don't like it but they do. Its like a verbal ass slap, and what chick doesn't like that?

[biggestmexi]

un-pc now a days.

id sat floppy drive.

[furie]

My dad does that one, makes me laugh.

I don't know what's wrong with oriental. I actually prefer asian, it's just a nicer sounding word, good rebranding, but what was inherently offensive about oriental?

the only problem with the term asian is that it also refers to indians, pakistani's, bangalesh, and sri lankins.

so with widely diverse groups covered under asian, it's not a great term. at least with oriental, you know who they meant

[TheMojoPin]

so with widely diverse groups covered under asian, it's not a great term. at least with oriental, you know who they meant

How? It's still a hugely diverse group of people.

Besides, the term "Orient" or "Oriental" included India and Pakistan and Afghanistan and such, just like "Asian."

[furie]

N-knocking is now ring & run.

f'n n's

i never heard of it refered to that? it was always ring and run

when were you born, 1931?

[underdog]

the only problem with the term asian is that it also refers to indians, pakistani's, bangalesh, and sri lankins.

so with widely diverse groups covered under asian, it's not a great term. at least with oriental, you know who they meant

All those people are also Oriental.

[furie]

All those people are also Oriental.

oriental isn't sub-continent

[TheMojoPin]

oriental isn't sub-continent

Yes, it was.

[Aggie]

Along the sambo lines...I had the book with narrated record.

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[GregoryJoseph]

I don't know if it was ever "PC" but I remember my father and grandfather always saying they had to "Jew him down" when they were buying a car or other major purchase.

[SinA]

N-knocking is now ring & run.

f'n n's

I have to be careful not to slip when talking about putting something together or fixing something ad-hoc as "N-rigging" it. That was never really OK to say even before PC, but we were kids. Another term people called it "Jerry-rigging" which had the same type of connotation from when the Germans were called "jerry" in WW2.

[landarch]

Along the sambo lines...I had the book with narrated record.

http://unambig.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/disney.jpg


Am I reading the copyright date correctly, at 1976?

That's the year I was born.

The world has really changed that much in my lifetime......

And these changes keep coming faster and faster.

edit: 1971. Still, that's f'ing crazy.

I am terrified for my two year old. I hope she is somehow better equipped to deal with it than I am. This encroachment of political correctness and other similar ills are sometimes more than I can stomach already. What will we be in another 33 years? (I know, I will be 66--that's not what I meant).

[instrument]

i never heard of it refered to that? it was always ring and run

when were you born, 1931?

1995 was the height of my N-knocking.

and i'm not white so i still refer to it as such
thanks.

[SinA]

Along the sambo lines...I had the book with narrated record.

http://unambig.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/disney.jpg

I remember my grandmother reading that to me. It's about a doll covered with tar to make it sticky. Unless briar patches were really symbolic of bad neighborhoods, I don't think that story is really racist.

My grandmother, however, was very racist.

[JohnCharles]

mancave - now it means fag.

Can't say that anymore.

[Aggie]

I remember my grandmother reading that to me. It's about a doll covered with tar to make it sticky. Unless briar patches were really symbolic of bad neighborhoods, I don't think that story is really racist.

My grandmother, however, was very racist.

It's the term "tar baby" which was used as a racist term. Also I think how they portrayed how the black characters spoke. Very racist.

[lleeder]

N-knocking is now ring & run.

f'n n's

We said that when Jehovah's Witnesses would come around.

[Sarge]

We're not supposed to use the term, "Patty Wagon" anymore, because they say it is offensive to the Irish. We have to call for a transport van or a cage car.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

mancave - now it means fag.

Can't say that anymore.

God Hates Mancaves!!!!!


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[Spagett]

I called a lady at quick check a coffee maid the other day. She didnt like that at all

[Whitey]

calling nuns penguins.