Being PC

For every way in which we’ve moved on there’s always an idiot taking it too far.

As Wordy says there is no pc brigade. There are however two groups of people set to wind us all up
– People who think sensitivity means that they have to go over the top to respect people. These are the self appointed idiots and are responsible for the bizarre school rules we hear about and so on. They haven’t read the official pc handbook, they just have no common sense.
– Journalists, often from the Sun, Mail or Telegraph, who regularly alert us to the latest pc scandal which is going to affect us all daily – usually something stupid done by one of the idiots above.

Contrary to popular opinion
– black boards disappeared because technology overtook them, not cos an idiot said they were racist;
– girls were allowed to wear trousers in school, not cos the Muslims forced it on everybody, but because it was popular with all girls and skirts seemed old fashioned;
– paradoxically discriminatory decisions like only black kids being allowed to wear braids in school were dreamed up locally to annoy us and are not national schemes; and
– there is no Ministry of PC.

There is lots of scaremongering about the pc brigade and how it is stopping us getting on with our lives.

And there are some self appointed idiots who try to introduce their own ideas locally.

Most of us are more sensible and know what’s offensive. Some of us moan a bit about some things being pc but that’s the extent of it.

The worrying thing is that the whole pc debate gives some people with genuinely offensive racist/sexist etc. views cover for their discrimination. All they have to do to cover their words or actions is say “everything’s gone too pc these days”. And then they go back to referring to the “paki” who works in stores, and commenting on the “tits” of the girl in admin, while she’s is close enough to hear.

I’m sure that doesn’t refer to any of my fellow posters, but that is why I tend to ignore anything that seems a bit too pc and let it go over my head. When the West Indies cricket team change their name, I might consider stopping using the term.

There is no conspiracy, just a few (well publicised) zealots going a bit too far every so often.

I choose to ignore them and do my best not to intentionally offend people – that seems a small price to live in a civilised society.