Employee of the Month - totally hil. I don't know why it has mediocre reviews on Amazon, and I don't care much, I'm guessing they were expecting a different kind of movie. It's a highly entertaining satire.
Little person (or whatever the singular of the PC term "little people" is) Danny Woodburn as Glen Ross has a great line: "I like people. From a distance." That's exactly how I feel.
Or as Linus van Pelt put it: "I love humanity. It's people I can't stand."
Judging from the trailer this film has all the hallmarks of a timeless masterpiece. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI think I'd find "Little Person" more offensive than "midget" or "dwarf."
ReplyDeleteYes, I've been wondering about that myself.
ReplyDeleteWho comes up with these terms? Where's that committee which sits down and decides that "Oriental" is offensive and "Asian" is not? Or "negro" is, and "black" is not? Or was last year, but is not now.
Watch The History of Political Correctness. There's your answer to how it came to be.
ReplyDeleteAs to what prolongs the problem, it's people who are scared of other people. Example: the politically correct term for a particular race has during the last 200 years gone through the following transitions:
negro -> black -> coloured -> negro -> black -> african american
I predict that within the next 5-10 years the politically correct term will be "nigger". I am serious.