NYC Schools want to ban "controversial" words like: Dinosaur, Birthday, Pepperoni

• chicago510

  

  I literally can't decide whether to punch someone or laugh about this. Its really unbelievable. Education isn't all roses. Sometimes in life we learn things we don't like or we don't agree with.
  
  NYC schools want to ban from their tests 50 EVERYDAY words like dinosaur (could offend creationists) and birthday (Jehovah's witnesses don't celebrate them).
  
  The list: http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/03/50_words_banned_from_nyc_schoo.html
• hoops23

  

  Wow.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  fucking idiots
• dwccrew

  

  This is a great way to teach children how to deal with controversial things in life or how to deal with things that may upset you.....ignore them! Brilliant!!!!!
• hoops23

  

  The way society is heading really baffles/worries me.
• j_crazy

  

  Replace them with ****, fuck shit, etc. Call it a wash.
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  I'm offended by pepperoni.
• hoops23

  

  BORIStheCrusher;1131572 wrote:I'm offended by pepperoni.

  That's on the list because it offends vegetarians.
• End of Line

  

  
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Yeah, this is pretty sad.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  The term that should be avoided is "government pension", given that the idiot that made this decision will be living off it for years.
• chicago510

  

  Looking at that list, how on earth can you create a standardized test without words like: politics, religion, war, cancer, slavery?
  
  I don't like cancer does that mean I can just skip that month of school?
• wkfan

  The chancellor should be relieved of his duties for being a moron.
  
  Oh wait....using the word 'relieved' might conjur up a bodily function and might make him 'uncomfortable'.
  
  Just fire him, then.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Can't believe this country is now becoming the land of not offending anyone.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  DeyDurkie5;1131548 wrote:fucking idiots

  this
• Heretic

  

  New York City: Land of Retarded C*nts.
• ytownfootball

  

  This wouldn't surprise me at all coming from the left coast, little odd coming from NYC where flying the bird is a part of everyday life.
• Fab4Runner

  

  I like "homes with swimming pools" and "In-depth discussions of sports that require prior knowledge".
• gut

  Commander of Awesome;1131677 wrote:Can't believe this country is now becoming the land of not offending anyone.

  You don't need a thick skin or to be able to deal with failure when the liberals are trying to make everyone equal in every way.
  
  These people are every bit as kooky as the right-wing religious nuts. They just have a different "faith" and "ideal". And ideas like this are what happens when a society becomes too PC to tell people they're stupid, or at least that they're idea is stupid. "Retarded" is actually appropriate but, see, we can't use that word.
• jmog

  This might be the dumbest thing I have ever read.
  
  Dinosaur might be offensive to creationists? That is stupid, no matter how strict to the Bible a creationist is, the creationist is a retard if they don't like to talk about dinosaurs, especially since the Bible talks about dinosaurs.
  
  Pepperoni might be offensive to vegetarians? Come on, well lettuce is offensive to meatarians...so now we can not discuss any food at all.
  
  Just fire any person that thought this up or voted yes for it, immediately.
• QuakerOats

  Proving yet again that liberals and progressives have a serious mental illness.
• gut

  QuakerOats;1131954 wrote:Proving yet again that liberals and progressives have a serious mental illness.

  Yeah, they pass themselves off as the intellectual elite but in reality have just as may nutjobs as the right. Difference being their nutjobs tend to be activists, while the right's nutjobs are mostly ignored (except, oddly enough, by the liberals).
• I Wear Pants

  QuakerOats;1131954 wrote:Proving yet again that liberals and progressives have a serious mental illness.

  And creationists are retards if they get offended about dinosaurs. Or even if they don't.
  
  But anyway the only logical course of action for all those involved in this, the people who get offended by these things and the people who proposed this rule is to SHOOT.THEM.ALL.
  
• Heretic

  

  gut;1131956 wrote:Yeah, they pass themselves off as the intellectual elite but in reality have just as may nutjobs as the right. Difference being their nutjobs tend to be activists, while the right's nutjobs are mostly ignored (except, oddly enough, by the liberals).

  I thought one of the right's biggest nutjobs has this really popular radio show that's supposedly listened to by gazillions of people on a daily basis.
• sleeper

  

  Only in the NYC..