I always had issues with the pride stuff, mainly because they're for things a person doesn't CHOOSE to be.  How can I be proud of being a straight white woman when I did nothing to ensure that's what I was?!  I was BORN that way, and being BORN that way is the very reason we shouldn't judge people for their ethnicity or sexual preference.  I am proud of the things I've accomplished, but not of who I am--I'm not ashamed of who I am, but I didn't move mountains to turn out to be what was there from the start in my genetic makeup.

Now a straight proud Mardi Gras, I'm imaging, would just be boring and ugly...I'm pretty sure it would be like going to Wal-Mart on Saturday.

     Welcome to the club Nimbin. Been on this rock goin' on 60 years and not once have I given credence to the so called politically correct bullshit. All that is is a catchword for someone not having the balls to stand up and say what's on his or her mind for fear of hurting someone's feelings. You know...there's an old saying...If you can't take the heat stay the hell out of the kitchen.

     Where I grew up in Brooklyn NY it was amidst the old world families. Italian, Jewish etc. My old man drilled into us kids heads from day one that it makes no damn difference the color of your skin, what religion you hold to or what sexual orientation is yours, to him it didn't matter. What mattered to him and matters to me is how you conduct yourself as a person. So yeah...be proud...be damn proud of who and what you are and let all those idiots who don't have the intelligence of a flea because they can't see beyond the nose on their faces all go the way of all things that don't work, in other words, die off. My rant too!

Excellent! Simply Excellent!

From the Urban Dictionary:

Here in the south, we have White Pride marches all the time...it's called a KuKluxKlan rally!       

Come on down....just remember to bring your own .         

ALL forms of extremism are [or should be] beyond the bounds of public acceptance and thus irrelevant to interpretations/discussions of 'political correctness'.

Gay pride marches came about from societies where seemingly it was OK to be bashed to death by 'your country' but you were not allowed to die FOR 'your country'.

On a side note....seems Australia is to be the fourth country to allow front-line soldiers of the female persuasion....

Ah...now I recall...the other three are Israel, Canada and New Zealand ...

As world population goes, blacks are equal in population to whites and are not as much a minority as you think. 

Asian 54% 
Black 15%
White 15%
Hispanic 8%
Middle Eastern 8%

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_world_population_and_race_breakdown#ixzz1ZIUgIEWZ

Some of it is: http://www.carnivalservice.com/gay-carnival-route-rio.php

I love it Nimbin...Proud to be who I am. White, straight and proud!

Not an excuse/justification for a pizza bandito/vulture.

I had a politically correct type woman lecturing me about how I should teach my children and grandchildren to think and speak.   I told her: I hate every bastard who isn't me, so you're barking up the wrong f**king tree if you think I give a flying f**k about not offending various groups of people with an identity issues. And if you don't f**king like it, you know where the F**king door is, you queer lesbian bitch."

Now I don't normally speak to people that way, but that bitch got right up my nose by trying to tell me in my own home how my children/grandchildren should be taught/bought up.  Had she been invited to give an opinion it might have been different, but this was a case of a PC zealot butting into a conversation and taking it over to drive her own agenda/views.

Yeah, some twerp came up with the idea that all books which refer to parents as mum and dad should be banned from all Australian schools, because children of gay couples would not identify and would feel out of place.  A comment from one friend was that it was a completely ridiculous idea when the majority of children are of heterosexual parents or single parent families... and why wouldn't a child of a sole parent feel out of place when a book referred to a parent they didn't have. 

Anyway, before I could even thing about responding to the original comment, this politically correct bitch got on her high horse and proceeded to lecture me about teaching my kids/grandkids 'correctly'.  About a minute into her diatribe I was seeing red, so the above was not said to her quietly, and it was added that the door wouldn't be hitting her on the arse on the way out... "not with my boot firmly planted in it"

For mine, politically correct people are at times far worse than the people they condemn.  Not only do they try to impose their views on the rest of us, they often inflame the situation and make matters worse by drawing unnecessary attention to something that is better left alone.

You really shouldn't be selling your grandkids, Mark....tsk, tsk....