Re: Larry Niven: Terrorize Latinos to Solve Health Care Crisis

In article <sU3Sj.453$J16.28@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> David Friedman wrote:
> > In article
> > <7624040b-d06d-44d8-a0b6-587d87216f4f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "louann_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <louann_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> Ien K. wrote:
> >>
> >>> Niven said a good way to help hospitals stem financial losses is 
> >>> to
> >>> spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that 
> >>> emergency
> >>> rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for
> >>> transplants.
> >>>
> >>> ?The problem [of hospitals going broke] is hugely exaggerated by
> >>> illegal aliens who aren?t going to pay for anything anyway,? Niven
> >>> said.
> >>>
> >>> ?Do you know how politically incorrect you are?? Pournelle asked.
> >>
> >> And this is why the phrase "politically incorrect" annoys me. 
> >> Better
> >> wording for this situation would have been "****ing stupid" or
> >> "****ing evil."
> >
> > Those might be appropriate terms from a different person in a
> > different context. But for making the particular point Pournelle was
> > making, his wording was much better. He was saying nothing at all
> > about how good or bad the idea was.
> 
> "Politically  incorrect" is a term of admiriation and congratulation; 
> it means "Good for you for sticking it to the liberals". 

I think that is connotation but not denotation. I could imagine someone 
advising against saying something because it was politically incorrect, 
and so would have undesirable consequences.

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