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I can see it turning full circle. In fact, the tide is already turning.
Ppl already realise it’s going and has gone too far in places and no longer take it seriously.
Example:
Two years back I had to attend a compulsory Equality and Divetsity course at work.
With a straight face the trainer told the group that it is no longer acceptable to refer to ppl from the nunerous West Indian islands as either West Indian or from the West Indies.
Reason being, way back in the 1490s when Columbus was discovering the Caribbean islands, he got his bearings a tad wrong and decided the islands lay to the West of India, hence them being called the West Indies.
The trainer went on to explain that West Indians should be called “ppl from the Caribbean.”
I told my dad that he is no longer West Indian and when he demanded to know why, I explained. Not known for swearing, he simply said, “what a load of bollocks.”
Thought I’d share that with you – just off to watch the West Indies cricket team play Sri Lanka in the T20 final. :P
What a completely pointless thread this is. :roll:
sorry say again panda
i never really got the hang of ‘being PC’……..the black board has gone and we have a white board…….what was i supposed to call it?……….if noddy wanted to sleep with big ears then as far as i was concerned that was ok……..he had done for many years when i was a child so why change the habit of a life time?……..if people want the black and white minstrals back then so be it but i hope not, always hated the songs ………spotted di ck shouldn’t be called spotted richard……….brain storming yes thought showers no………job centres were told not to use words like reliable and hardworking in their adverts for fear of upsetting lazy people :shock: santa in australia was told to say hahaha instead of hohoho…..for fear of frightening children and offending women…….and the link below shows just how ridiculous the whole things has become…..
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_examples_of_political_correctness
i like the sex one though hope they keep that one :lol:
Blimey Tinks is it true about the Job Centre thingy? :shock:
@kent f OBE wrote:
Blimey Tinks is it true about the Job Centre thingy? :shock:
apparantly so
anybody coming in chat,16.o9 sunday.
@rogue trader wrote:
anybody coming in chat,16.o9 sunday.
catch up with you sometime cosy x
@kent f OBE wrote:
Blimey Tinks is it true about the Job Centre thingy? :shock:
Even taken at face value the motivation looks like nothing to do with so-called PC and everything to do with the litigation obsessed insurance world. As are so many of the so-called PC or Health and Safety excesses.
The great thing about UK civil law is that anyone can try to sue anyone else, courts throw out unreasonable cases in huge numbers all the time, but the universal right to Law is essential to a free society. So while it’s true that an unreliable worker ‘might’ sue, the probability is ridiculously low – unless a man in a suit tells you differently.
That’s assuming the story isn’t invented.
There will be no backlash against rubbish like this, as lawyers and insurance companies will always frighten the life out of potential clients.
There is no authority on what is ‘PC’ or not – and please god there never will be. However this means that any individual can make up hypothetical new rules or opinions which are too often taken as fact even when the simplest or most basic common-sense test would eliminate them.
A list of ridiculous ideas from a non-accredited website is meaningless – most of them are too difficult to pronounce anyway. There is probably more nonsense falsely alleged as coming from the non-existent PC Brigade than there is suggested by (hopefully) well-meaning eejits.
It’s worth making even a perfunctory Google check which will filter out many as just plain false, either mischievous or mistaken. Simply asking yourself “really?” will disqualify a lot more. If it seems too good/bad to be true, it probably is.
I do hope that wasn’t the most interesting or useful item on Panda’s course.
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