Below I included a link to an article I found. It was written about a statue that is being made of the famous photograph of the 3 firefights that are raising the American flag at the World Trade Center wreckage site. This article explains how the three white firefights are being replaced by 1 White, 1 Hispanic, and 1 Black firefighter to be politically correct. I feel the it is horrable to re-write history like that so that any minorities won't be left out. Here is the link !

http://www.yahoo.com/s/3420


[This message has been edited by The_White_Panther (edited 01-13-2002).]

It's gonna be a bronze statue anyways. How are they going to depict race unless they use physical stereotypes to represent them which will just bring more criticism. just build the dam statue and be done. Nobody is going to question it once it's built and if they do then they obviously don't give a shit about all the people who died.
While I'm near the subject. WTF is up with remembering all the firefighters and police that lost their lives. There were a couple thousand civilians that died too, did everyone forget about them?

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Originally posted by Sgt. Baker:
Nobody is going to question it once it's built and if they do then they obviously don't give a shit about all the people who died.

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So by questioning very wrong motives behind things i don't give a shit about the people who died? WTF?

Its people like you that make this thing acceptable.

Its bollocks if you ask me.

native americans, asian americans, and N.O.W.(national organization of women) will sue for being left out of the hero brigade,

then PETA will sue for not having the firefighter mascot the dalmation included as well, then the k-9 unit will petition to have a german shepherd included as well,

hey if it wasn't for hungry dogs your family members rotting, yet cooked corpses would not have been found, a little over done, but done nonetheless.

then the police force will sue to have a couple of officers holding the flag as well,

or else they'd still be associated with rodney king, and their continuing research on anal probe devices.

then the gay pride movement will want their portion of firefighters and police represented as well.

then the Arab Defamation League will demand an arab-american representation as well or the whole project will have to be shelled for the negative image that will be implied from the monument.

then because of some jackass who wants to get rich quick, will find a resemblance between himself and one of the statues and demand royalty payments there will have to be a disclaimer plaque that every person who visits there will have to confirm they have read, but you know they don't understand,

for it holds the core of the very ridiculous nature behind political correctness.

the plaque will read...

"The people(animals) represented above are purely fictitious, any resemblance to any people(animals) living or dead is purely coincidental."

for those of you who do not see the irony of this, and the sheer and utter lunacy behind political correctness.

i will translate the plaque in laymen's terms...

"The people(animals) represented above do not exist, any similarity to existant people(animals) is impossible."

What do you mean how can you depict a race without color without using "stereotypes"? In this culture, stereotype has a negative connotation. Are you saying being able to tell a Mexican on black and white TV isnt an African is bad?

Political correctness has been taken too far and I am offended by the media's attempt not offend me.

amen to that riot kid

thats not equal rights dumbfuck thats polika correctness. equal rights is saying a woman gets payed the same amount as a man and that blacks/mexicans or minority can do anything that a white,christian, male, between 21-49 can do.

Before you call anyone a dumb fuck you should check your spelling. This article and this topic isn't about the difference between political correctness or equal rights. I opened it to see if anyone else thought all this treating the races equally bullshit is going to far. When I read that I see that history would be re-written just because of the color of the skin of the three firefighters who lifted the flag. If you are looking for anything else besides that then this isn't the message for you. Go call someone else names, I don't need that imature shit buddy, I am trying to discuss something and you can't handle it without trying to cut down on someone, so grow up or find a new topic.

i wouldnt have 'cut you down' if you could tell the difference between politika correctness and equal rights. yeah i agree with you its dumb to rewrite history for correctness and i was just correcting you in your error and enlighten you to what equal rights really are and are not.

And I am just correcting you because the proper spelling is political correctness.