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While there are no skyscrapers in St. George for people to climb up, there are dangerous places in Utah to take selfies, such as train tracks, or Angel's Landing in Zion National Park. Perhaps this trend of cap SPENCER RICKS Spencer Ricks BY LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - t lwal On ness is not unfiltered , 'er this its. n your means ter the tration ite said 1 stu- age." drop as 4' ceiVC n. will t't dreP attachment. Letters become property )re the from re APal nd to hey're be l't it theY Ake that ,n's fill about censorship. It's about being a decent human being with sympathy. Terms like "faggot," or even "retard," the do not that "plig" are words ings." They claim the push for political conectness is a fight against the First Amendment. When Dixie State University announced its new identity last year, I tweeted a picture of the mascot with the caption of Dixie Sun News and may be published in any format. Dixie Sun News encourages a lively discussion on its vvebsite among its readers. Dixie Sun News does not edit comments. However, an editor will not post any comments that are libelous misidentifies them. Political correctness is not millermiprotect als with their so called "safe spaces" and "trigger warn- Published. Letters should be submitted to dixiesundixie.edu in the body of the email, not an unlike calling Native Americans "Indians," or worse, "Injuns." To be politically correct is to avoid terms that may hurt others. While I doubt a bison would feel insulted if it heard me call it a "buffalo," there are many groups of people who do feel hurt if they hear a term that thin-skinn- ed not be isses There is Proponents against political correctness claim its ptupose is not to eliminate insults, but to Letters are subject to editing for length, style and grammar Letters consisting of Inaccurate, libelous or highly content expression. - an active war against political correctness in this country right now. With President Donald Trump calling political correctness one of the biggest problems in today's society, it has never been a more hostile time for kind words. major. offensive truth and freedom of 1 Submissions should be no longer than 250 words and must be Writers must include name, phone number and email address. Students should also include year in school, hometown and well-writte- correct- A -- liscon- lowers responded by saying the term "buffalo" was politically incorrect and DSU's mascot was a bison, not a buffalo. Calling a bison "a buffalo" may have been seen as just a small accuracy error by some, but because bison has been mislabeled as buffalo since America's earliest settlers, I was perpetuating an error not posite of political A newspaper andor dixiesunnews.com. The guidelines for letters are as follows: en ' ( DlxieSundixie.edu. Letters to the litor are accepted and may be published in the EN "Brooks the buffalo is DSU's new mascot." One of my fol- The op- - Send letters to the editor to El turing yourself performing something so completely lacking in a stunt, doing common sense, or even the need to get optimum views or likes, began in the early days of YouTube. The term "go viral" became more widely used once social media made it possible for a post to be shared over, and over again. More specifically, it is the way social media al According to "What Does It Mean to Go Viral Online?" by Elise Moreau, when something goes viral, it is because it has been shared so frequently within a few hours, it spreads through the internet like a virus. Risking your life or doing something crazy does not guarantee viral status. Regardless of how many likes or views a post gets, it is the amount of times shared across social media and the pace at which it occurs, which determines that post's virality. There are much safer ways to go viral than risking injury or death. One way is to keep up with current events and trends the safe kind. Another, is to be aware of keywords and tags. Sure, you can be shocking and controversial, just make sure you or someone else won't get hurt. Lifewire.com has a great article called, "10 Tips for How to Go Viral Online," which gives some safe alternativies to the risky trends. Realistically, going viral, getting the most subscribers, or becoming internet famous shouldn't be the reason for posting content. It should be to connect with others, and to find - people who .share you; interests. Post awesome selfies and videos, but be safe, stay well, and stay alive. - Political correctness necessary PI ' ' I even dangerous measures for the attention. A recent example of this happened in February, when Russian Instagram model Viktoria Odintcova posted a video of herself leaning backward out of a window of a 1,000- foot skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She didn't have a harness on, and neither did the man holding her hand as she leaned back. The stunt went viral, bringing attention to her cause, which ironically concerns safety aware- - Tweet us your Df hand, with the valley sprawled ing and some are desper- ate enough to take drastic, allow lerwise tuition in the DSU - ) gust of wind knocks you off balance. You fall and scrape your knee. At that moment, you realize you could have fallen off the cliff a huge price to pay for a selfie and a moderate number of likes. The need for a social media post to be noticed and get likes isn't surprising, because posting content to Instagram or Twitter is for it to be seen by followers and liked, shared, commented on, or all of the above. Yet, the need to maximize likes is increas- 7 certain ll 'e a post. out below you to the horizon. You take a selfie, maybe a few. Then, a ,acourse Dn. 171,0j: on the edge of a cliff, phone in ' of lows us to be connected to content that we are emotionally responsive to that gives us a reason to share standing - : tell) - 3 notf woirth tthe Hs ks Vinrull Arip0 Imagine , ss the id of fee it the i DIXIESUNNEWS.COM JOHN HOLLAND TrippyJedi - we - 8, 2017 ,,,, k.C:. i rd reflect sympathy because they mislabel a human being with a word often used as an insult. Political correctness simply asserts that all people, regard i '144, L 4 1 ........ '' , .4 j''''.-- 4; ta ' 144 i - , , cf, rn ;tL.,. -- ,. - ......- i' ,..! ,4 l'.'1'1.1 Z C, rr' 4 or vulgar. ,.; I : i 'fr't k 1 f, r , e,,coti 5,- )'Y, 44't r, .!1.. ws I 4O.,4A ' -- -..,..........r...,....6.,.,.,,,,,..,,,..................-,..-- ! rri ' - , S. 71, , ,....,..........,,,,..,............Q...... ';',. e"v lo ........,....-...,,,i- io, d less of age, ability, race, gender, sexual orientation or class membership should be treated with dignity and respect. There are no laws enforcing political correctness, and there never will be as long as the Constitution is the law of the land. You can say whatever you want short of fighting words and obscenity, and no one will arrest you. However, that does not mean you won't lose your job for using ignorant words. One of Tnunp and other most repeated incorrect terms politically is "radical Islamic terror." President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton famously refused to use the term "radical Islamic tenor," because they didn't want to marginalize the millions of peaceful Muslims around the world by linking their faith to terrorists. Saying "radical Islamic terror," like Trump has already done several times in speeches since his inauguration and during his campaign, also adds to the extremists' recruitment rhetoric that America is at war against Islam as a religion. Using the terms "radical Islamic terror" or any other politically incorrect term does not change anything; it only has the potential to hurt others. Political correctness is only necessary because of the society of insults and ignorance in which we live. Political correctness can go away when right-winger- s' sympathy and acceptance become the norm. Pageants encourage women to conform to society's standards Hanna Pollock HannaPollockDSN BY -- i- I am all for women - ,( being happy show off to t cI 1 ( t their bodies, but they shouldn't ,.,',"' t, have to ' ' ' starve themselves in hopes to win a beauty competition. We no longer call pageants "beauty pageants," but the women competing in pageants almost always are gorgeous, skinny women. 1 know that if someone asked me to compete in a beauty pageant 1 would be hesitant because of the high bar set by all of the flawless women you regularly see competing. According to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health study "Miss Americas Getting Skinnier," more than half of Miss Americas since 1970 have had a Body Mass Index below 18.5. This makes them undernourished, according to World Health Organization criteria that define BMIs between 20 and 25 as normal. In Miss Dixie, DSU's Miss America Organization preliminary pageant, women often work for months, or even years to make their way to the top. The women in Miss Dixie usually have t . .,, ,, - - ,, -- nearly flawless talents, like singing, dancing and playing instruments, and many of the contestants comment on how restricted their lifestyles are when preparing for pageants because of the beauty standards. The Miss Dixie judges are also always pageant professionals. If women were to behave like the men in the Mr. Dixie pageant, which is a mock pageant where guys compete solely to humor the audience, I doubt the judges would take them seriously. The pageant, which is part of DRIts DWeek, is the second pageant offered for female students at DSU. Unlike Miss Dixie, there is no age or martial status requirement and no swimsuit competition needed to compete. The pageant only has 35 percent of the contestants total score based on onwhere stage performances the usual beauty judging takes place. Even though the pageant isn't as serious as Miss Dixie, the winner almost always seems to be a beautiful, fit woman. Although DSU offers a less serious pageant for female students, DSU still needs to acknowledge their appeal to tradition and work to make the pageants more friendly for all women not just the ones who fit society's beauty standards. en en en |