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[TheCountess]

I mean what?! Since when was it racially insulting to African Americans or any other dark skinned race to call a sheep with black wool a black sheep? And isn't the adoption of "rainbow" instead discriminatory and insulting to people of the homosexual persuasion? The world's gone mad...

[hamster]

Most nursery rhymes don't pass muster with the politically correct. But in defense of the offended, sometimes they do have an ugly history. Research the original eenie meenie miney moe sometime. Or what ring around the rosie really refers to.

[Chazoa]

Everything is insulting anymore. People take things too damn seriously.

[Astarte]

We are so darn politacally correct that it's reached the point of ridiculousness.

We celebrate the mediocre, it's a sad world where the naturally gifted and talented have to pretend their achievements are due to good luck and never-ending hard work, or be pariahed for thinking they are better than the rest of us.

As for baa baa rainbow sheep, what a load of crap. Here's some news for you! There are black sheep in the world, and hang onto your socks, they provide wool just the same as the others, and their darker wool is very useful in fairisle knitting........ shocking, I know.

Perhaps we should eliminate the words black, yellow, red, white and brown from the languages of the world? Would that help? Probably not. How about removing the eyes of all new born children? That would solve everything.

Nursery rhymes do have a gory history for the most part, that has mainly been forgotten. Let's leave it that way. There's too much religious and race hatred in the world right now without dgredging up things from centuries past and carrying on over what is now a child's kindergarten song.

[TheCountess]

While most nursery rhymes don't have the best history... What five year old child is going to consider it a racial slur to call a black sheep black? What kindergarten aged kid is going to worry that "Ring around the rosie" was about the bubonic plague for that matter?

[Chazoa]

good point. But still. The world is turning into some sort of extremely politically correct place where only hippies can survive.

[Pimienta]

yay for the hippies
oh wait they aren't even that politically correct because a lot of them were or are protestors
they protest war and war is apparently politically correct because those who protest it are told they aren't

[Chazoa]

War is good as long as you only send greasy orphans to fight in the war, and you fight it outside your country. Good thing we have alot of greasy orphans in the US!

[Pimienta]

that's sop horrible
"greasy orphans" as you say are people too and sometimes they grow up to be great people