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Re: BBC apologises after Mensa guest says anyone with an IQ of 60 is a ‘carrot’
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Originally Posted by Sparkle
Another example I've see in America is with the word "black". I can see them banning or attempting to ban that word entirely over there.
Black people are African American, whereas white people are still white people, oddly. Its gotten so bad, that the PC brigade are scratching their heads trying to figure out what on Earth to call an actual black sheep.
Even here in the UK, authorities have decided it best to side-step the problem altogether, and just call it a "rainbow sheep".
Nursery opts for "rainbow" sheep
If black is deemed offensive, then surely so is "dog". |
Not that bunch of round things again.
This was crap when it was first reported in 1986, and it still is now - as Private Eye reported
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For the record, the charity Parents and Children Together, which runs the two play groups at the centre of last week's outbreak, told the Press Association that "children at the two family centres sing a variety of descriptive words in the nursery rhyme to turn the song into an action rhyme. They sing happy, sad, bouncing, hopping, pink, blue, black and white sheep etc. This encourages the children to extend their vocabulary." Curiously, this explanation went unreported by any of the national papers.
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