From: "Carlos Gonzalia" <gonzalia@cs.chalmers.se>
> >From: "Randy Smith" <randysmith101@hotmail.com>
>
> >Another thing, most of the mexican immigrants are indians, and they are
the
> >uneducated peasants who get the grunt work that would be going to US
> >citizens otherwise. I am part indian, so therefore by the current
calculus
> >of racial political correctness, I get to criticise them.
>
> Indians or mestizos? I would have thought mestizos were a bigger
component.
> Also, I wonder about the competition for jobs, can you elaborate? Wouldn't
> US citizens be glad to leave the grunt work to the immigrants, and aim for
> other jobs of a more pleasant nature? As for the political correctness
issue,
> it is a US feature that I'm still unable to understand at all, so you
don't
> need to worry about me thinking you can't criticise them on that account.
I'm with you, Carlos. Even though I've been accused of being a nefarious
exponent of "PC" on this list, to tell you the truth I don't understand PC
myself. Having been an uncloseted atheist since I was a teenager, I've not
exactly been "PC" on this and a score of other issues.
Charlton Heston (in that sucky Harvard speech that was posted to this list
earlier) talks about PC, but wants to impose another (his own) brand of PC?
PC is a pretty meaningless term, the way I see it.
Maybe PC is simply a knee-jerk response used to dismiss people with certain
differing political views. But what does it really mean? Without
specifics, I don't think it's very useful.
Olga
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