Big
Whitey's Rant Of The Month
February
2001
Subject:
Political Correctness and Sexual Harassment
So
here is something I am tired of: Political
Correctness. Fuck it.
It gets entirely too much attention in this country.
First, Political Correctness is not a truly liberal notion.
It was invented by a bunch of bleeding hearts that thought that if they
could turn the word 'nigger' into a curse that the conditions of black people
would somehow change. Notice I say
'blacks', not 'African American' or 'people of color' or some other bullshit
term. A more appropriate term would
be 'brown' people but then nobody would no to whom I was referring, so I stick
with 'black'. African American is
bullshit on two counts: 1) It makes
blacks sound like they don't belong here. It
sounds like whites are Americans and blacks are a subcategory of such.
The response to this from the bleeding heart is that whites are European
Americans. Well, what about
Americans who are Russians. Russians are about the whitest people on earth and they
aren't European. So I say that
anyone from the US is an American. 2)
what about Jamaicans and Cubans, most of them are black, should they be
considered 'African' Americans? What
about Egyptians, are they African Americans too?
I don't think so. Recently 'People of Color' has become popular with
these bleeding heart assholes. I
was at a Young Democrats meeting and this jack ass gets up and says 'people of
color' 500 times, I was about ready to go puke on his suit. 'people of color' is no different linguistically than
'colored people', and I think either tem is a little bullshit. If all people except whites are 'colored' then that makes
whites, uncolored, or devoid of color. Well,
anyone who ever had a decent homemaking class knows that when something is
devoid of color it is black. So
much for that.
Indians:
that’s what they are, in general, in the English and Spanish language.
And I don't buy the shit about Columbus thinking he was in India.
In 1492, India was known as Hindustan to begin with.
George Carlin (my spiritual guide) puts forth the theory that Columbus,
an Italian attempting to write and speak in Spanish, called the peaceful people
he happened upon 'Una gente in Dios' in
Dios, Indian. This seams a little
more likely than the fairy tale my second grade teacher told me before
Thanksgiving. So I stick with
white, black, Latin, & Asian, & Indian in my public discourse.
In my private relations I call and think of people by what they prefer:
their names. I don't have a black
friend named John or an African
American friend named Jamul. I
don't have a Friend of color named Rahibstucock.
I just have friends, and that suits me fine.
No
this political correctness shit doesn’t come from true liberals.
Us true liberals believe that a person should be free to speak his mind
regardless of whether it offends someone. I
believe we have a whole amendment devoted to this very notion: the right of free
speech. Now I am not saying you
should say whatever you feel in every situation.
I am just saying you have the right to.
Nevertheless, if you want to, more power to you.
However, people who have to listen to your mindless blather also have a
right to take appropriate action in response to your words.
This brings me to the incident that pissed me off in the first place.
For those of you non-Rice people who may be reading this, we recently had
an incident on campus. Ill describe it here without reference to names
Each
residential college at Rice elects a Secretary. The de juro duty of a secretary is to record the
minutes of cabinet meetings. The de
facto duty of the secretary is to write shit that people find funny and
interesting. And I'm sorry, but
most college students find sexual humor fucking hilarious, especially if it
involves people they know. And
please take a fucking joke, most people take the minutes about as serious as the
National Enquirer. No one actually
believes that Werner had sex with his cat without having to use KY Jelly, well
Kristi might, but that is neither here nor there.
So one of these colleges has joint-secretaries, and these two male
students write the minutes about two twin girls (who were members of their
college) having a three way with their mother.
Following a negative reaction, the secretaries apologize publicly and
resign. They were then suspended for a semester and sentenced to community service
by the University for violation of the Universities Sexual Harassment policy.
Their sentence was later reduced to a reprimand and community service.
This was not sexual harassment. I'm
tired of every sexual comment being called sexual harassment. An Example of actual Sexual harassment would be if an
executive with a company told his secretary that she could have a promotion if
she would date him. If he called
her a 'cum catcher' this would also be sexual harassment,
If a boy in the mail room asks this secretary out on a date, it is not
sexual harassment. If a college kid
says that two twin bitches have an around the world with their mother, this is
not sexual harassment, it is a matter of free speech. But, because they were using college funds to publish their
jokes, and they were elected officials, they had a duty to take into accounts
the feelings of those who paid for their paper and gave them their positions.
I've had classes with these girls, they can't take a joke.
They are a couple atypical one-dimensional, high SAT score 'new Rice'
students. In response to their
actions, they should have been impeached and forbidden to hold college office
again. Any further pursuit of
vengeance on behalf of the twins should have been external to the University.
The University should not have involved itself in College affairs unless
the College failed to respond in an appropriate manner.
Harassment also implies a repeated behavior.
If I call a girl a slut once, I'm an asshole, If I call her a slut for
six strait weeks, I'm harassing her. If
these two secretaries had repeatedly made sexual overtures about the twins, they
would be harassing her. Otherwise
it was just an inappropriate joke. Personally,
I read the minutes and thought they were fucking hilarious.
Well,
It's late and I'm going to bed, you can look forward to a fresh rant next month.
-- BW
"You
know the Nazi's had pieces of flare that they made the Jews wear." -
Peter Gibbons