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Date Posted: 23:52:49 09/16/07 Sun
Author: Deep Diction
Subject: Re: Is an ethnic slur an ethnic slur, even if it isn't?
In reply to: Lynx 's message, "Re: Is an ethnic slur an ethnic slur, even if it isn't?" on 23:17:36 09/16/07 Sun

>>I didn't say it's saved us from all discrimination.
>>But would you rather be treated the way women were in
>>the 1950s?
>
>Well, from what I remember of the fifties, when most
>working women were nurses or schoolteachers, and the
>overwhelming majority were housewives, it seems to me
>that most of those women, generally speaking, were
>treated more respectfully than they are now. I think
>that the PC revolution and women entering the
>workforce in a big way were rather more unrelated than
>is your impression. Or that's how it seems to me.

Before WWII, there were lots of jobs deemed unladylike, and women were discouraged from even thinking about working at them, let alone managing those companies. It took women being hired in factories out of desperation during the war effort for many of them to realize just how capable they were, and how inappropriate it was for them to be told they couldn't do those jobs.

Political correctness has been in place in some form or another since long before then, even if it wasn't always called that. It just represents a gradual realization that the way you're treating somebody is wrong. The emancipation of slaves happened because enough people realized it wasn't right to treat other human beings that way.

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