IT'S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!

it's not clear-cut though, because anti-abortionists want to be called "pro-life" etc. That's a kind of political correctness, but people don't call it that.

However, the regulator said in future it would look at all such cases individually and that "the level of editorial justification required for the inclusion of smoking in such cartoons is necessarily high".

And to think, I grew up in an era where racist stereotypes were already edited out of Tom and Jerry and Loony Tunes episodes. Look at what I missed. Now kids don't even get smoking (well not all of it--they get to maintain the "value of the animation").

IT'S GONE MAD. MAD I TELL YOU!

Is it 2006, or is it NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR?!?!?!

http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/od_nm/india_hitler_dc&e=9797&sig=__zDXDL7G_OaorrS3e_UABJka4sFo=

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1015/1015507_600_face_court_for_feet.html

probably more 'nanny state' but ech.

i saw some news bit where a school banned the game of tag

On The One Show on BBC1 last night, there was an old woman who wants these signs banned:

http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/images/signs106.gif

Because, basically, "just because we're old, doesn't mean we walk in single-file".

Jesus christ, some people need more important things to think about

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The Mail is all in a tiz about this.

It has nothing to do with political correctness though, does it?

xpost re: School banning tag.

It was one big bluff:

"No, no, it's banned. You can't. It doesn't count.......... IT!!!" (runs away)

So the mail is for zero tolearance except when you are middle class

As for tag, well I know quite a few schools banned it in the US last year. Again, though, it's not really political correctness. I think it's more to do with vocal parents. If one parent complains about something at my children's school it'll generally lead to a comment on the school newsheet. And often the head teacher will ban something if he gets even just a couple of complaints. Sadly, I am a lone voice demanding that my kids should be allow to smoke on the playing fields (as I did in my day and my father before me...)

and "wearing flip-flops" and have a good set of photos available, now the A Level passing season is over.

Also:

Then, magistrates at Chester were presented with the case of a 19-year-old Cub Scout leader caught lolling in a train carriage with her feet (clad in flipflop sandals) resting on the seat in front of her.

So, watch out, you excelsiors!

So the mail is for zero tolearance except when you are middle class

Or a car driver.

From the comments on the feet article:

"I wonder precisely how young and pretty one has to be before one can break the rules with impunity."

It did cross my mind that the 250 people prosecuted before the pretty young white maths student cub scout leader who works with disabled children didn't warrant a news article about these "draconian" measures that have been in place for 6 months.

I hate getting my pants dirty on train seats.

put them on yr flip-flops then!

"I am a liberal by inclination"

pffft

TS: Zero tolerance must mean exactly that...even if she's a sweet maths student vs Nice people, people like me and Kathleen Jennings ... are simply exercising our civil liberties when we try to make ourselves comfortable in public places.

Maybe this should go in the 'how shit is the Guardian these days' thread.

if i'm reading this right, a whole bunch of you think people should be in court for this trivial shit...?

It sort of breaks into Ben Elton's classic "doubleseat" routine as well.

I haven't seen anybody go one way or the other here. xpost

The article's main point is the targetting of 'non-threatening' people, but seeing as how 250 other people got summonsed too, how could they know? They might all have been asbo hoodied pikey asylum seekers for all they kno.

No, I don't think she should be in court for it, I'm just point out the double standard.

Me also.

What this boils down to is that when someone puts their feet on the seats, SURE they ought to receive a ticking-off, but it SHOULDN'T result in a fine, or worse, a news article.

but the MAIL was pointing out the double-standard. the mail was saying lock middle-class people too, for great justice.

So how should Merseyrail solve the problem of their dirty train seats?

Remove all the seats and replace solid floors with grating.

But that's not the Mail's usual stance of "stop picking on careless speeding drivers, not when there's real crimes going on". xxpost

Ban students. Especially in the first few weeks of term when freshers can't shut the fuck up.

xp

it's partly merseyrail's problem, partly everyone else who ride's the line's. the guardian woman who says "hey, we're all selfish cunts right?" is wrong.

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yeah i know, but to be fair, it is pure revenue, the speeding fines thing. again an issue of stop being cunts, i guess, but fines for slightly breaking the limit? ech.

What fucks me off is used to travel on Merseyrail regularly in the late 90's and you always had to work out which seats had been pissed on before you sat down.

You have to wear flip flops to avoid getting piss on your feet.

I'll always treasure the old "but I don't wear those kinds of shoes" while pointing at the sign in protest when told to take feet off.

Santas warned their "Ho ho ho" may be offensive to women

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115/wl_asia_afp/lifestyleaustraliachristmasoffbeat

Let a ho ho ho be a ho ho ho.

Score one for the batshit rightwing cartoonists

The idea of Santa saying "ha ha ha" IS fucking hysterical though for some reason

That is typical telegraph bullshit. Even the company involved says they aren't doing it.

I love it when they run a whole story then smuggle a quote in at the end from the alleged perpetrator saying "yeah is this definitely not happening at all".

The imaginary war on Christmas is my favourite political correctness gone mad gone mad

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6804421078

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html

LOL @ facebook M0RANS group:

ANYONE WHO JOINS THE GROUP AND DOESNT READ WHAT ITS BOUT BEFORE POSTING A COMMENT WHICH SAYS THAT THE GROUP IS BOLLOCKS, AND WE ARE ALL SUCKERS FOR BELIEVING IT BLAH FUCKING BLAH BLAH SHOULD GO AWAY AND NOT BOTHER JOINING, BLOODY HELL SORT YOUR LIVES OUT.

IE don't you dare tell us that the entire premise of our group & victim culture mission st8ment is based on total bollocks that somebody MADE UP!

NB the first posted item - b|\|p video, also one of the wall posts starts w/"im no racist but..."

Feh, delete humanity.

we aren't going to make it, are we

Someone on my Facebook friends list joined a group called "COMMON SENSE RIP", which was just a long string of awful e-mail round robin "BARMY BRUSSELLS BEAUCRATS WANT TO BAN TIPEX BECAUSE IT'S RACIST" shit. I then defriended her.

Examples of political correctness gone too far.

well spotted, heave ho.

Examples please.
-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, June 9, 2004 1:56 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

Examples of political correctness gone too far.
-- N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, June 9, 2004 1:59 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

According to a tiny column filler in the Times, the author Lindsey Gardiner has said that her publishing editors objected to a scene in one her books where a dragons toasted marshmallows by using the flames from its nose on the grounds that 'it looked dangerous and went against health and safety'.

Update: Also in the Telegraph.

Another of her novels, When Poppy and Max Grow Up, initially included a scene where a little boy climbed a ladder, but that too was changed. "They didn't allow Max to be on a ladder because they thought it was precarious. But when I changed it, I had him standing on a pile of three paint cans, which is much more dangerous, and they didn't have a problem with that," she said.

That is some MPAA-level shit.

"Liberals" are a funny lot. Just read the Christmas letter my boss is sending out to people we work with Asia and Africa, where she is at pains to point out that Christmas is basically a Pagan festival, she actually says at one point "...there aren't that many practising Christians left in the UK". She is one of those mythical people you read about but imagine don't really exist, who actually think it will offend people of other religions or cultures if you imply that Christmas has anything to do with Christianity.

Life's too short really...

Oh I figured she'd been around forever, it's just that her appearance is some sorta antimatter intersectionality of online retrograde fuckheaded horribleness.

lol yeah, no-one, before the right got hold of the term, ever used 'politically correct' in a sincere, approving sense. This is why all in-group humour should be forbidden.

― sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdumps as an enlightmenment (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, January 28, 2015 6:06 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

spoken like a true stalinist!

FWIW i think the term "left-correct" was around within the left at least as long as "politically correct." again, it has an ironic charge, as in, "well, this idea may not be 'left-correct' (hewing the party line) but it's a good idea."

ok I did a search in the NYT from 1851.

1st mention of the term "politically correct" is from 1956, specifically from "Text of Speech on Stalin by Khrushchev as Released by the State Department." basically it's a key document of de-Stalinization from the USSR, with Kruschchev critiquing the "cult of personality" that had developed around Stalin. a fascinating read, actually.

but this lends credence to the idea that the term, in its American sense, was a reference to, and likely a parodying of, habits of the Old Left.

btw until 1990 the other uses of the term are all from the Cold War/Eastern Bloc context.

if the university social justice club ever gets stalin-like power i reserve the right to get worried

correction

that was the 1st mention of the phrase "political correctness"

the phrase 'politically correct" appears in a few stray places starting in the 1860s, but it's fairly random. it starts appearing more frequently in the mid-1950s, again, in the context of discussions of Russia and the Eastern Bloc countries.

what's the 1860 context?

stalin.gif

use of both terms EXPLODES in the 1990s btw, where it is suddenly being applied much more frequently to the American context..

"i need stalinism bc it triggers me when the kulaks get to keep their grain seed."

what's the 1860 context?

― Mordy, Friday, February 6, 2015 3:31 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually, it's 1875.

headline: "FROM THE PACIFIC COAST.: SAN FRANCISCO INTERESTS, A SPECIALLY FAVORABLE SEASON--THE FEELING AGAINST CAPT. WADDELL AND THE PACIFIC MAIL DIRECTORY--STEINBERGER'S POPULARITY AMONG HIS HEATHEN SUBJECTS."

don't have time ATM to read entire article sorry, but here's the terrific opening lines:

After five weeks' rain, with scarcely one clear day, we have once more our glorious Winter weather, bright, sunny, clear, and an atmosphere just bracing enough to require a thin Fall overcoat, and that not needed if you are walking. Already the hill-sides are clothed in emerald hues, and the grateful bovine nippeth the tender grass and the festive dairyman sees signs of a fall in butter.

you make a lot of trigger jokes mordy what's up with that

the grateful bovine nippeth the tender grass and the festive dairyman sees signs of a fall in butter

journalism standards really have declined, I gotta say

xxp amateurist what's the line w/ the "pc" quote?

don't worry about it shakes

mordy, i'd have to read through the whole thing to find out! it's not text-searchable.

the grateful bovine nippeth the tender grass and the festive dairyman sees signs of a fall in butter

journalism standards really have declined, I gotta say

― Οὖτις, Friday, February 6, 2015 4:35 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. I can't imagine any current reporting being mistaken for Jethro Tull lyrics.

apparently i have access; i found it:

http://i57.tinypic.com/15pmvpe.png

also this gem:

http://i60.tinypic.com/2eg8kls.png

emoluments, he don't got any any

"He continued to destroy ships long after he was aware that the war was over. 'Like a boss,' our correspondent added."

lol

"Once again, it's the tail wagging the dog."

Waddell was obv a bad loser.

So the idea is that if someone is derisively called "politically correct" presumably because they are unnecessarily touchy about things. This displays a lack of self-awareness because if you are upset about someone being PC then you are being unnecessarily touchy imo.

like ta shoot someone out of a Western canon, right into a busy intersectionality

lol Morbs ^

revive because… oh no

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/aug/24/cancel-me-john-cleese-to-present-channel-4-show-on-woke-thought