This one had me rolling....
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On his website, www.ratbags.com/rsoles, the famed anti-quackery
crusader Peter Bowditch wrote;

Words have only one meaning ... (6/12/2003)

One of the sillier aspects of political correctness is how words take on
magical properties which imbue those words with power derived from the
letters or phonemes making up the words. As a postmodernist would say,

is a conflation of signifier and signified in the matrix of mental space.

recent case of this is the ban placed by some Californian authority on the
use of the words "master" and "slave" to describe, for example, the
relationship between multiple hard disk drives in a computer. I can see

these expressions could cause alarm to the brain-dead, but surely the rest
of us know what the words mean. Similarly, there was a story some time ago
of a woman in a university English class who objected to the use of the

"niggardly". The correct response from the university should have been to
point out that anyone who thought that this word was somehow racially
offensive had no place studying English in an institute of higher learning
and should instead be enrolled in a remedial language class.

In my experience, political correctness reaches its most amusing level in
feminism. Biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an essay in which he mentioned

examples of such mindlessness that they would qualify the creators for

Prizes if such prizes were given for stupidity. One was a feminist

of Einstein, where the author rejected the equation "e=mc2" because it
somehow breached principles of equality by placing the speed of light in a
superior position to other physical measurements and therefore symbolising
patriarchy. (I am not making this up.) The other was an explanation of why
the complexity of turbulence is not as well understood as other features

the universe. This is apparently because physics is male and the different
characteristics of the male and female genitalia determine that only rigid
things can be studied and understood because nothing else is important
enough to bother with. I have been told that women are not allowed to use
computers because "the computer is a penis" (this was in a textbook

by one of my sociology lecturers!), and one of my fond memories of

with these loons was being told that "logic is a patriarchal construct and
has no place in women's experience".

This would be much funnier if these idiots were not in a position to teach
nonsense to our children. It is a real danger when people with no ability

think at all, let alone think critically, have power over the lives of
others.

This one had me rolling....
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On his website, www.ratbags.com/rsoles, the famed anti-quackery
crusader Peter Bowditch wrote;

Words have only one meaning ... (6/12/2003)

One of the sillier aspects of political correctness is how words take on
magical properties which imbue those words with power derived from the
letters or phonemes making up the words. As a postmodernist would say, there
is a conflation of signifier and signified in the matrix of mental space. A
recent case of this is the ban placed by some Californian authority on the
use of the words "master" and "slave" to describe, for example, the
relationship between multiple hard disk drives in a computer. I can see how
these expressions could cause alarm to the brain-dead, but surely the rest
of us know what the words mean. Similarly, there was a story some time ago
of a woman in a university English class who objected to the use of the word
"niggardly". The correct response from the university should have been to
point out that anyone who thought that this word was somehow racially
offensive had no place studying English in an institute of higher learning
and should instead be enrolled in a remedial language class.

In my experience, political correctness reaches its most amusing level in
feminism. Biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an essay in which he mentioned two
examples of such mindlessness that they would qualify the creators for Nobel
Prizes if such prizes were given for stupidity. One was a feminist critique
of Einstein, where the author rejected the equation "e=mc2" because it
somehow breached principles of equality by placing the speed of light in a
superior position to other physical measurements and therefore symbolising
patriarchy. (I am not making this up.) The other was an explanation of why
the complexity of turbulence is not as well understood as other features of
the universe. This is apparently because physics is male and the different
characteristics of the male and female genitalia determine that only rigid
things can be studied and understood because nothing else is important
enough to bother with. I have been told that women are not allowed to use
computers because "the computer is a penis" (this was in a textbook written
by one of my sociology lecturers!), and one of my fond memories of studying
with these loons was being told that "logic is a patriarchal construct and
has no place in women's experience".

This would be much funnier if these idiots were not in a position to teach
nonsense to our children. It is a real danger when people with no ability to
think at all, let alone think critically, have power over the lives of
others.