ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

What is meant by the modern term referred to as 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS'.. Although I consider myself reasonably fluent in English, that term was not in my vocabulary in my younger days. Someone found this definition in 4 telegrams at the Truman Library and Museum in Independence Missouri. The following are copies of four telegrams between President Harry Truman and Gen Douglas MacArthur on the day before the actual signing of the WWII Surrender Agreement in September 1945.. The contents of those four telegrams below are exactly as received at the end of the war - not a word has been added or deleted!

(1) Tokyo,Japan
0800-September 1,1945
To: President Harry S Truman
From: General D A MacArthur
Tomorrow we meet with those yellow-bellied bastards and sign the Surrender Documents, any last minute instructions?

(2) Washington, D C
1300-September 1, 1945
To: D A MacArthur
From: H S Truman
Congratulations, job well done, but you must tone down your obvious dislike of the Japanese when discussing the terms of the surrender with the press, because some of your remarks are fundamentally not politically correct!

(3) Tokyo, Japan
1630-September 1, 1945
To: H S Truman
From: D A MacArthur and C H Nimitz
Wilco Sir, but both Chester and I are somewhat confused, exactly what does the term politically correct mean?

(4) Washington, D C
2120-September 1, 1945
To: D A MacArthur/C H Nimitz
From: H S Truman
Political Correctness is a doctrine, recently fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and promoted by a sick mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of s**t by the clean end!

Now, with special thanks to the Truman Museum and Harry himself, you and I finally have a full understanding of what 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS' really means.....

Robert Graybeal Loc: Myrtle Beach

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dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

Excellent :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

And require everyone to at least pretend to believe you when you say you did pick it up by the clean end.

tramsey Loc: Texas

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Nailed it :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Great share!

green Loc: 22.1749611,-159.646704,20

would have been better if actually true... but these days you settle for something that sounds like t***h.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/trumanpc.asp

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Yes we (or at least I) know it is made up. But fun and with a lot of t***h in it.

Remember the movie "East Bound and Down"? A trucker's fantasy that we knew wasn't true and if someone had tried 1/10th that stuff in real life they would be in the third sub basement of a maximum security prison with their cell door welded shut.

But it was fun, and had some t***hs and opinions people held at its core.

green Loc: 22.1749611,-159.646704,20

politically correct used to mean polite... don't use ethnic, racial and cultural slurs.

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

Thank all of you for looking, it was a joke, but one with a lot of t***h to it.

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

And who made SNOPES the authority for everything.

Sarge69

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

an old man and old woman.. lol they think.....

Checkmate Loc: Southern California

Snopes has been picking it up by the 'clean end' for years.

Singing Swan

Sorry but I have to disagree... I can be polite all day long and be just as politically incorrect as anyone, politely of course, but so darned rude it goes right over their heads.

lev29 Loc: Born and living in MA.

Thanks for posting!