The slow march of the PC plodders
 

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SkyNews had a similar article yesterday...

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...207634,00.html

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Yep, you are either -ist or -phobic. I have always thought it a pernicious tactic to misrepresent someone's view of something as a 'fear' of it.

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Indeed

There was a gentleman from India on telly yesterday. He was saying how upset he was because people were scared of saying anything to him that might be deemed offencive.People would not mention Christmas near him as the PC brigade had deemed it offence for people of his religion ?. His point let him decide what is offence not someone who has not even met him. :tu:

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Exactly!

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I found this especially disturbing:
If thats true the people responsible should be sacked....

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A lot of the time however the examples of Political Correctness is misrepresented so the newspapers can sell more. An example was one that Sky News showed yesterday.

A council called their lights 'Winter Lights' instead of Christmas Lights, of course there was uproar as people complained with increased hatred of a PC world and annoyed that it had been changed to not offending Muslims and so on. When people (admittly few would actual bother) reading the article it was so they could keep the lights up beyond Christmas

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Well, I have to admit that I agree with the article. We (as a nation) ARE too frightened of the "Politically Correct" brigade.
While I don't believe we should all go round being Racist, homophobic bigots (quite the oppoisite in fact), we should not treat people differently because they are a different race or sexual persuasion. This, to me, is wrong, regardless of the excuse.

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Oh Buddha, please let's not go there again ... :disturbd: :D

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This argument is a hot favourite with anyone who thinks (or prefers to think) that PC isn't a divisive force in our society.

What are we to do, assume that ALL examples of PC are a misrepresentation? Or are we going to pick and choose - we'll assume the ones that show PC as evil are false, and anything else must then be true?

BTW - I have still to see an example where PC is a benefit to society...

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No, The Term PC has been Hijacked. It is basically ensuring equal treatment not using offensive words for discribe minority groups. You do not have to go back far to find examples where racsit lanuage is used in programs.

Words like 'Pakki' and 'Nigger' where used a lot and now they are not allowed. Postive example number one! The reason you havent seen a positive example is because the term is now applyed to only negitive examples while positive examples go ignored ( A story about someone being sacked for racist abuse isnt a good story, but christmas under attack is!)

The reason its so popular a story to run with is because of the racist sub-text. It basicially saying that our current way of life is under attack from these minority groups with stirs a lot of anger

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Agreed.:tu:

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No, Sorry. This is too far. There are many examples.

PC's idea is too stop sexism and racism but no positive examples of these will ever come up. The principle is a good one and it has stopped some negitive terms from used.

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I'm not even convinced that is an example of PC at work, but it certainly isn't a recent example. To me that's simply the anti-racism legislation at work, which is NOT the same as PC.
Hang on, first you try to sell me the above 'positive example' and now you tell me there aren't any?
You seem to think that PC is a tool for anti-racism and as such a good thing.

To me, that is another argument used to maintain PC and to make it possible for anyone who is against PC (in it's divisive, brain-dead form found today) to be labelled 'racist' by implication.

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If there are no positive examples, then it can't be a positive thing, can it?

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And apparently any other -ism that anyone cares to invent.

If it ever had such a noble aim, it has now become so perverted that it should be consigned to history.

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There are never any positive examples in the media because they do not sell papers, not negitive storys do. People like bad news.

Also the rest of your posts shows how the term has been Hijacked. to simply apply to negitive storys while others are down to Anti-rascim and so on

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I believe that the cases where 'pc' ideas have protected people aren't actually cases of political correctness coming to the aid of minorities etc....those are just examples of legislation aiding people.
True pc (imo) is like the example I gave above where polititians didn't like the findings of an investigation because it would upset a section of society so they re-did the investigation to get more politically acceptable results....