The Matthias Chronicles

Friday, July 11, 2008, 4:00 PM

Political Correctness

by Mar Matthias Darin

Rant Warning! If you can't handle a strong dose of reality from one very irate foul mouthed computer scientist, leave now! You have been warned!

I was just watching the news and heard a Texas Commissioner claim the scientific term black hole is racist. Of all the idiotic, asinine nonsense to whine over....

Here is a couple of official definitions of Black Hole:

From Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1), Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006:

• noun
• Astronomy. a theoretical massive object, formed at the beginning of the universe or by the gravitational collapse of a star exploding as a supernova, whose gravitational field is so intense that no electromagnetic radiation can escape.

From An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

• Fr.: trou noir
• A fantastically dense object, predicted by the theory of general relativity, whose gravity is so powerful that not even light can escape from it. --- mini black holes, primordial black holes, stellar black holes, supermassive black holes.
• Historically, the Newtonian concept of such a celestial body appeared at the end of the 18th century when light was shown to have particle characteristics. In fact the English geologist John Mitchell (1724-1793) and French mathematician and astronomer Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), independently, suggested that regions of space, where gravitational attraction was so strong that not even light could escape, may exist in the Universe. However, the term black hole was coined in 1967 by the Princeton physist John Wheeler (1911-), from --- black + hole, O.E. hol "orifice, hollow place," from P.Gmc. *khulaz (cf. O.H.G. hol, M.Du. hool, Ger. hohl "hollow"), from PIE base *kel- "o cover, conceal, save." The PIE root has also given rise, among other things, to cell from L. cella "storeroom, chamber."
• Siyah câl, from siyâh --- black + câl or câlé "hole," maybe from the above mentioned PIE *kel-. The Lori holf "big hole" (slang Mod.Pers. holofduni "a tight and dark place, especially prison) may also be related to *kel-. Alternatively, câl may be related to Mid. and Mod.Pers. câh "a well, deep hole;" Av. cat- "a well," from kan- "to dig." Surâx, from Mid.Pers. sulâk, Av. sura- "hole;" cf. L. cavea "a hollow place," Arm. sor "hole."

Now that we have the actual definitions, where in these is there any mention of race?

All this political correctness crap can only be called one thing: Bullshit!

So we have a hole in space that is physically colored black... What the hell else are you going to call the dammed thing???

This Dallas County Commissioner needs to pull his black head out of his black ass and get a grip on reality! The whole idea of being Politically Correct has got to be the most undiscriptively stupid bucket load of crap in the universe. If this Dallas County Commissioner can't handle being black, then he can paint his worthless sorry black ass some other color!

Next he'll whine about the color of a can of black paint, black markers, black construction paper, black keyboards, black monitors...

Someone, please put and end to all this Politically Correct BULLSHIT!

Comments from Angelika

Amen! I am MORE than over all of this PC bullcrap!

Comments from Mar Matthias Darin

I hear ya!