Political correctness strikes again!

Questo è un oltraggio assoluto!

This is the theme song of our days.

So I live life as a robotic ninja-fighting holocaust-denying terro­rist Jesus, in a plastic wheelchair that looks like a Harley, outfitted with dual Gatling bubble guns with no recoil, backdropped by montages of fantastic outlandish places, such as the roof of a glass freight train lit by a crimson sun; or on the scales of a flying lesbian albino shark replete with lazor eyes and a space-buddha’s stomach. None of which is politically correct of course. Nor am I drunk or smoking anything.

The prevalent do-gooders do tend to remove the whole general notion of awesomeness from life. And I’m only 8 years old and I’m a girl.

@jen_jen wrote:

Stark raving political correctness!

One of my wholesalers is steadily expanding across Europe and is planning to launch an Italian website this year. For this he needs an Italian speaker to work on the website so he called the job centre to place an advert. He was told.. can you believe.. that advertising for an Italian speaker is racist and prejudicial against non-Italian speakers. He saw red, and not one to mince his words, he demanded to know if he was hiring a brain surgeon could he could advertise for one with actual brain surgery ability or just throw the job open to any passing butcher who fancied it?

After much discussion he finally spoke to a supervisor who made him fill a form in and sign that an Italian website could only be translated and run by an Italian speaking person, the form had to sent to a special department whose job it is to decide whether he was allowed to use the words “Italian speaking”.

Absolute madness!

Not only is it not racist – it is actually plain incorrect.

In law you are allowed to advertise for people with special skills if they are required to do the job. Playing Charles Dickens in a play of his life can quite acceptably involve advertising for and hiring a white middle-aged male. Being a social worker for an Urdu speaking population can involve an advert saying that the ability to speak Urdu is preferred or actually required.

Advertising for someone who is white, Asian, from Bolton, speaks Italian, Swahili etc. is only discriminatory if it is not required by the job and you just fancy being around, say, Italians or people who grew up in Bolton for some reason. In that case you are deemed to have excluded people who could quite reasonably have done the job.

Not political correctness gone mad so much as giving yourself a bad name by not knowing the facts when you patently should. I have every sympathy with your wholesaler.

#-o

@gazlan wrote:

Sicily beggers

Gaz, your connecting the dots audio is all echoed …. and Icke ? :?