Mariner wrote:
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:37:43 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote:

Political Correctness is ...

... a social attempt to teach the immature and insecure what "respect" means.
The problems is that they've never had any self-respect so they can't be
expected to ever have respect for anyone else.


Ludicrous.

It is not now and never has been necessary to have "self respect" to
respect something or someone else.

You are confusing being respectful - manners - with having respect.
Political Correctness is about showing respect, not about having respect.
It is about not creating offense, not about magically having a genuine
respect for someone you don't know or might not even like. It is absolutely
impossible to feel respect toward someone who hasn't earned it. Respect is
a form of admiration, showing respect is form of social communication.


We still hope that they learn
what it means one day so they will finally deserve the respect they so
desperately want and need, and in turn, will learn to respect all others.

You define cluelessness. You do it well.


The only challenge with dealing with people who have no self-respect is that you
will somehow have to try to retain your own dignity and self-respect, while the
non-politically-correct who lack those things will desperately try to rob you of
them.

Desperately? You like that word, don't you? Perhaps one day you will learn
what it really means and stop using it in an inappropriate manner.



You could call "political correctness" the more apparent meaning of "respect for
others", but they still wouldn't be able to figure it out. Those who fail to
understand this most basic of human principles have never been too intelligent.

It isn't a basic principle and it is impossible to be "too" intelligent.
However you do illustrate that being too dumb might be possible.

Socky