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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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paks7 0
its so nice to get on here and read the comments of people who also hate political correct-ness people getting mad over merry christmas is so stupid...if somebody said happy hanukkah to me i would definitely not be offended...it's just people being nice!!
peopleplz2008 0
if you are in highschool and the whole school had to listen about how calling each other gay is wrong and shouldn't be done. you are preaching to the wrong people.
blinkingstarlet 15
maybe it was pulled because you were being redundant... or because you were being redundant. or because you were repeating yourself too much..
iammark26 0
lol. freedom of speech. xD
jwsmythe 0
#54.. Reduantly redunant repeated hackneyed phrases are what most speeches, lectures, oral dissertations, and addresses are made of. :) We're just guessing if the speech was that, poorly written, or included a huge number of non-pc statements to show how they're wrong. If every ******, wap, honkey, spic, chink, jew, and fag are offended (or mentioned), then it is an inappropriate speech. Rather than the school editing it, it should have been requested that those words be removed because they are defamatory. A speech on political correctness can explain the problems with it without sinking to the level of those who are defamatory. And yes, I intentionally said those to be an example of exactly what not to do. I'm sure several people may be offended that I even typed those words, but if someone who could fall into that slur category were called that, they would complain about being called such by quoting it, not say "that person refered to me and/or my family by an ethnic slur". It may have good shock value, and if George Carlin was giving the speech he could likely say it and get away with it, but I seriously doubt the original poster is anyone of George Carlin's reputation. A good public speaker must control their words and make them appropriate for the audience. The above phrases are not appropriate for a student body audience. It's possible that the original script was simply so poorly written that someone in the administration took the time to turn a badly written speech into a good speech. Maybe in the rewriting some of the original meaning was lost, but that would be something that could be discussed with the school administrator editing it. But, it's all just a guess, since I haven't seen the original script that was to be spoken from. Maybe the original poster can post it here, so we have a clue about what we're arguing about.
jwsmythe 0
#52, I hear that all the time. Someone says "Merry Christmas", and people of other faiths are offended. I just say "Bah Humbug" during the holidays. They're commercialized events now anyways. Holidays are about celebration and spending time with friends and family. They're not about who can spend the most money on their friends. This year, my friends got an email from me. "I'm broke. The economy sucks. You're not getting anything, and don't get me anything. I look forward to seeing all of you, and spending time with you." No one took offense to it. I didn't mention a faith based holiday. We all had a good time during the time we spent together. If anyone made reference (or wanted to pray for the holiday), I let them, and accepted their personal decisions.
noshitsherlock 0
probably for the best. personally, I can't stand when people say shit just to be OMG SOOOOO shocking and controversial (usually just plain attention-seeking)
summerxx 0
**** POLITICAL CENCORSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thepunisher_fml 0
thats politics for you
Luna_LoveIsGood 0
WTF?! Did you tell them that that's kinda the point to the speech. You should refuse to make the corrections