Too PC or the right move?
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talkpoliticsCNN's John King: "Before we go to break, I want to make a quick point. We were having a discussion about the Chicago mayoral race. My friend Andy Shaw used the term 'in the crosshairs' in talking about the candidates. We're trying, we're trying to get away from that language. Andy is a good friend, he's covered politics for a long time, but we're trying to get away from that kind of language."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/01/18/cnn_apologizes_for_guest_using_term_crosshairs.html <- videoIs this over the top? Have we taken this push for civility to the point were we will once again warp our lexicon to suit the hyper sensitive? Do we need words that are purely for political discussion and nothing else? Jargon more so than lexicon.
I heard on the radio that John Boehner has started calling the health care repeal "a job's crusher' rather than a 'job's killer' [unfounded rumer citation needed]
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Date: 19/1/11 18:34 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 19/1/11 21:40 (UTC)Repealing health care reform will indeed be jobs crusher.
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Date: 19/1/11 18:41 (UTC)What's next, shall the announcers of this weekends Football (real football, not that silly game the rest of the world calls football) games avoid the terms "Blitz", "Bomb", "Offense", "Defense", etc.?
It is only hypersensitive idiocy that ever considered the cross hairs imagery as some sort of covert call to violence.
And while we're at it...
http://www.redstate.com/erick/files/2011/01/wal-mart-attack.jpg
This is far closer to an actual call to violence as they are going to be marching on a private individuals home but I don't see the popular media bringing the exact same imagery they complain about from the right when the left uses it.
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Date: 19/1/11 18:43 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 19/1/11 19:29 (UTC)I have no problem whatsoever with the imagery, IF they were hosting the event at a public park, or the site of the Wal Mart, or even the corporate HQ of the developer. But to march on the residence of a private indvidial is nothing short of intimidation and throwing the quasi violent imagery borders on terrorism against that family.
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Date: 19/1/11 18:55 (UTC)http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/01/banning-crosshairs-cnn-used-it-refer-palin-bachmann
"Palin's moose-hunting episode on her reality show enraged People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and now, she's square in the crosshairs of big time Hollywood producer, Aaron Sorkin," reported A.J. Hammer of CNN's Headline News on December 8.
"Companies like MasterCard are in the crosshairs for cutting ties with WikiLeaks," said CNN Kiran Chetry in a December 9 report.
"Thousands of people living in areas that are in the crosshairs have been told to evacuate," Chetry said in a December 21 report on flooding in California.
"He's in their crosshairs," said a guest in a December 21 CNN discussion of suspects in a missing-person case.
"This will be the first time your food will be actually in the crosshairs of the FDA," business reporter Christine Romans said on December 22.
"The U.S. commander in the East has Haqqani in his crosshairs," CNN's Barbara Starr reported on December 28, referring to an Afghan warlord.
"We know that health care reform is in the crosshairs again," CNN's Joe Johns reported on January 3.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/01/banning-crosshairs-cnn-used-it-refer-palin-bachmann#ixzz1BVcT9q3s
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Date: 19/1/11 19:14 (UTC)The truth is we're a violent culture and our language reflects our blindness to it.
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Date: 19/1/11 19:32 (UTC)Believe it or not there are people who get paid to watch TV all day and track all manner of things that get mentioned, anything from mentioning a corporation to various types of political speech.
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Date: 19/1/11 23:17 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 19/1/11 21:34 (UTC)Yes.
No.
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Date: 19/1/11 22:22 (UTC)Shutting up and listening to each other and speaking as if we're all human beings is hardly "warping the lexicon". Do you ever stop and consider the lexicon, and style of discourse, is currently warped to suit the loud and the aggressive; who tend to not be the most thoughtful of people.
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Date: 19/1/11 22:58 (UTC)Not necessarily, it's just typical, therefore over the top has kind of lost it's meaning.
Personal opinion....just plain silly.
Hang on, I have to change the "kill" command on my Unix box to "please cease running"
Date: 19/1/11 23:02 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 19/1/11 23:57 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 20/1/11 01:33 (UTC)So saying "don't eat that donut" is clearly way too PC.
But on the other hand, eating a fucking truckload of it every day can give you a heart attack.
On the gripping hand, partisan politics and the nature of media/public debate usually make it damn near impossible to distinguish between gradients of anything not presented in a simple black/white good/bad dichotomy.
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Date: 20/1/11 04:10 (UTC)On a related note, John King's grovelling makes me want to puke. I can't imagine such a limp wienie having anything worthwhile to say.
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Date: 20/1/11 05:22 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 20/1/11 05:58 (UTC)I mean, the effort is nice, but the fact that they try so hard and so awkwardly makes it obviously unauthentic.