Today, I was selected to give my speech to the entire school. I was later told it had to be censored because it was inappropriate, even though I was just trying to make a point. My speech was on political correctness. My speech on political correctness was censored for political reasons. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I had to give a speech as part of my campaign for school captain. I was rather happy with it and so I told another candidate my speech. Apparently it was a good idea as minutes later that same candidate stole my entire speech, leaving me looking like a complete idiot. FML
Today, I was bitched out by my 17 year-old son's teacher. It seems the idiot teacher made the kids advocate for his own political beliefs in a presentation, and my son ended his speech saying, "And it remains my opinion that our instructor is cramping my motherfucking style." Instant suspension. FML
Today, I was met with a flurry of complaints after my “disgusting” speech during my child’s career day at school. I’m a labor and delivery nurse, and my use of words like “fetus, breast, cesarean, etc.” was too much for the kids. I never even mentioned sex or genitals, and they’re in the 6th grade. FML
Today, while giving speech in class, I choked on my own spit and had a coughing fit while everyone stared at me intently. When I finally regained my composure, my teacher told me my time was up and to sit down. I hadn't even got finished the first paragraph. FML
Today, I gave a presentation about how teachers don't intervene enough when students are being bullied. Afterwards, I was practically bullied by my teacher for "not choosing a serious topic." FML
Today, my teacher assigned us teams in a class debate. I landed on the team that had to argue the obviously wrong point of view. When I finished, my teacher told me and the entire class how much I disturbed her, and how I reminded her of Hitler and Napoleon. FML
Today, I was no longer being considered for the counselor position at a prestigious university because of a social media check. It wasn’t anything on my profile, it was comments I'd made on public posts, laced with profanity and insults towards other commenters. There goes my Christmas. FML
Today, I was once again berated by an idiotic parent. I’ve been called a filthy liberal, a groomer, and had my job threatened several times. All of this because I was teaching second graders about pronouns. You know, the part of English grammar that replaces a noun. Nothing political at all. FML
Today, we were having a school prize giving. I heard my name called and I walked up to the stage waving and smiling, feeling rather proud of myself. I stood by the microphone and started my acceptance speech, only to be tapped on the shoulder by the girl they'd actually called up. FML
Today, one of my classmates got bullied and the whole class got to wrote 2000 words about that. FML
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sickofnames 0
That's what school is like. Everything has to be the status quo, bland and acceptable. I know your pain as I was almost suspended for a film project I did.
Nakedsquirrel 5
Political correctness is a crock of shit in the first place, necessitated only by the fact that we allow a bunch of annoying crybabies to make a scene every time someone says something they don't like. It's one thing to be offended by blatant racism. It's another thing to throw a fit because someone isn't conforming to the hypersensitivity USA has gotten up its own ass with. Only the most pathetic individual could be offended by "Merry Christmas."
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Comments (105)
NonchalantSavant 0
I agree w/#10 - except do the entire speech on irony. Do NOT cite Alanis Morisette.
PokeyStix 3
You were probably being over the top with it.
xHaniffax 0
OMG how the hell is this an FML? It's just sucky but your life is not F-ed
XvxvX 0
That sux... Not really fyl tho
SuperSpore 0
Yeah, this is NOT an FML. Still sucks though.
frequentuser 0
amen dude.
beg2dream 0
Okay I will give you that this is irony at it's best, but FML it is not.
callargh 0
YDI. I bet it was one of those "Look how politically incorrect I can be! YEAH!" deals.
UsingLogic 0
I will say only this: I would rather be a racist than let foreigners come to my country and take away my rights to free speech by falsely accusing me of racism. It would be sad if we had to go that far, but that's what is going to happen unless all this idiocy stops. People get offended if you wish them Merry Christmas, but if you get offended because they come and talk to you while wearing an obvious religious symbol, then you are called a racist. Hell, you are even called a racist if you feel uncomfortable while talking to people who wear obvious religious symbols. Hello, those religious symbols remind people of our differences and put distance between us, nobody likes to be reminded of ideological differences while talking to someone! It's like complaining because someone is intolerant to intolerance! I'm not targeting any specific religion in this message by the way. I know some religious symbols are more obvious than others, but I still don't like any of them. At least as an agnostic you won't see me wearing stuff that reminds you we don't have the same philosophical/ideological values whenever we talk about something. We can't even say "Hello" to someone without having "WE DON'T HAVE THE SAME VALUES" shoved in our face by a piece of apparel or an accessory, what kind of world is this? But hey, if I don't feel comfortable around you because YOU choose to remind me of our differences, I do not have any obligation to stick around with you or have anything to do with you. Next time you are wondering why people from your religion (whichever it is) are not accepted by other people, just look at yourself in the mirror.
Thunk 0
Political correctness is stupid. And also kind of Orwellian.