Political Correctness - How Does It Affect Your Country or Locale?

[batgirl]

Oh, and I forgot this, but thought I'd add...

In secondary school, I had a friend who was an achondroplasic dwarf. She was an excellent writer, and was offered the chance to write an editorial for the local newspaper. She decided to write about dwarfism. She used the word "dwarf" in her article several times. After the editorial was published, there was a whole slew of angry letters from readers who said the word "dwarf" was insulting and demeaning. Of course none of them actually were dwarfs or little people. I wish I could have seen their faces when she replied to the letters saying Umm ... duh... I am a dwarf, and I'm not offended by the term in the slightest!

 

[Scott_Fraser]

Hi Bec. Scott here. Sorry if I've offended you. I just feel that in the UK The PC Brigade have gone mad. The majority of people both ethnic and white agree that it is totally over the top. It seems that it is people in local council offices have nothing better to do with themselves. Fair enough if it offends someone, thats fine as long as they have a good arguement over the subject.
I seem to have opened a can of worms here. I have no anger over it. But it does get over the top sometimes in this country.
Cheers
Scott:thumbs-up

 

[Scott_Fraser]

Sorry Anthony, I've put my foot in it again. I just thought that it was a good subject to bring up. And I seem to have opened a can of worms. But it is great to hear everyone's views.
PS Congratulations on winning the Ashes.
Cheers Scott:thumbs-up

 

[anthony]

Mate, that is ok, I think its actually a very good general thread that should be discussed, because lets face reality here, it is going on everywhere across the world. Groups cottoned onto the ability to skew the system, so they are taking it for all its worth. Instead of governments doing the right thing, and really looking at each based on factual realism, they are just approving things and making stupid rules based on popularity for numbers in the polls. Once again, the people who make the decisions, have lost their principles to numbers, the bottom line once again.

I really do admire and believe I am extremely lucky to be in Australia, where commonsense really does prevail here. This PC nonsense did start here years ago also, and they gave it a good run for a while, then the government had just had enough, and shut it down for the most part, with nothing new being approved unless it is based on serious facts with a lot of supporting documents, so I guess they just tie them up in paperwork, and for once, a very appropriate area for the old paperwork BS to be handy.

I can totally agree if the dwarfs of Canada all got together and partioned the word "dwarf" being offensive to them, but if that is the case, then what word would they use in lieu? Then when does that word become offensive also? The next generation maybe? It is like looking at the colour black, and not calling it black because that could be biased, so instead we will call black "the darkest colour of the spectrum?" I guess the thing that busts mosts bubble, is when a group of white people, average height and built rally around to tell people that the word "dwarf" is offensive, considering they have nothing to do with the dwarfism themselves. Kind off really punches home that fact, people are just bored and looking for something to put their name upon, so they can look back later in life and show their grand children how much they fu*ked up their own country with some idiot request they pushed to such points the government just caved to shut them up and get rid of them... until the next issue that is!

 

[Scott_Fraser]

Give them time Hannah.:biggrin:

 

[Deleted member 93]

Staying out of this thread as I am not a nice, or yes I am nice, but I am not able to be PC LMAO.... PC over done agreed long as we can keep this nice as a major drive of this board is not be judgemental.

 

[becvan]

I'm not offened in the least Scott.. some PC stuff drives me nuts also.. however I can hear the anger and frustration in your posts and would like to get at it.. so how about answering those questions.. honestly? :biggrin:

bec

 

[Deleted member 93]

Bec, look at you... You are jumping right back in, you go! Love it :)

 

[No-Twitch-Tabitha]

I despise political correctness; it's so ivory-tower.

That being said, I'm happy to report it's on the wane, if only a little. It depends on where you go. You'll still find die-hards on college campuses (the usual suspects), but for the most part, people are sick of it.

 

[Scott_Fraser]

To true my friend, to true.
Scott:thumbs-up

 

[Scott_Fraser]

The latest PC gone mad is that a local Health Board here in Scotland have decided to ban Easter, as it may upset Muslim patients. But the muslims have told the health board not to be so blooming silly. But the Health Board are not budging on this matter. So the staff will not get Easter Monday off as a public holiday, and that includes the Muslim Staff who are raging about it as well.
The place has gone mad.
Scott:crazy:

 

[mac]

I think all the holiday stuff is BS. The comedian, Carlos Mencia pointed out a lot of good points regarding that on one of his "Mind of Mencia" shows.
Also, can someone explain to me why we have all these racial awareness months here in the US? If the US is supposed to be a 'melting- pot' where everyone is considered equal, then why do different races need to be recognized?
Even in school and job applications I have seen where they want you to mark which race you are... and then they tell you that race is not a factor-BS! All I see is double-standards and I think this adds to PC problems.