IT'S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!

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...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_controversy

Cos Muslims around the world wd be way more down with Pagan fertility festivals.

I don't think we actually deal with Muslims - maybe a few, actually most of the Africans we deal with ARE Christian!

Oh man Prince needs to make a holiday album called Christmas Controversy.

I don't understand
Why we're putting up this tree
Wassail always gets
Popage from extended familu

family

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=O5EVTZUXLXBK1QFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/14/nbacon114.xml

f u nu-ilx

will we ever be able to give out racist joke presents again in the current politically correct climate of policing?!

Jokes bruv.

From an interview with Miss Manners:

Barbara Lane: People often say that there has been a decline in civility over the past several decades. Is that accurate?

Judith Martin: Yes, but there's also been an increase. We have seen, first of all, the result of generations of children being told by very well-meaning parents, Now you don't worry what other people think about you, you go out and search yourself and get what you want, and never mind what other people think. So they have done this beautifully, and that's the decline, I suppose, to which you're referring. And all the older people joined in; it's not just one generation or two.

But people forget the enormous progress that has been made in the last few decades. Not that long ago, people could say the most appalling, bigoted things with impunity. In the last ten or 20 years we've watched a lot of careers self-destruct by people who were making the same kind of little jokes and off-hand remarks they always made, but suddenly people realized how rude they were. And that's tremendous progress.

Lane: Some would label that political correctness.

Martin: The people who label it political correctness are always talking about ridiculous exaggerations where somebody took insult where no insult was intended. And so when they attack political correctness they find themselves in the peculiar position of defending outright bigotry, which I do not care to defend.

Miss Manners OTM.

Miss Manners is so consistently OTM on every subject that one could replace the expression by OTMM without changing its meaning.

AWESOME.

TRUE.

"on the miss manners?"

you're both fired

What do you look like giving the DOUBLE DEUCE?

Miss Manners first paragraph OTM.

I, too, find Miss Manners OTM and hilarious generally, but "On The Miss Manners" is clearly nonsensical and luda.

My favorite MM moment:

Reader: "Is a demitasse spoon useful?"
MM: "Does a duck swim?!"

Insane!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article881322.ece

But really this has NOTHING to do with political correctness does it?

Also a mention there of the Campaign Against Political Correctness who have a truly terrible website.
http://www.capc.co.uk/

"420" pupils

This is the Sun, the paper currently edited by the same woman who, as editor of News Of The World, encouraged everyone to firebomb paediatricians.

Lady, if you can't finish it, don't start it.

Although I'm surprised they didn't jump on the ACID HOUSE RAVE DRUGS HELL CHILDREN INNOCENCE PAUL BETTS WRITES bandwagon that I've just invented.

ban this sick stunt

Whole story worth it for RAVERS subheadline

People are very confused aren't they?

Posted by: Trespasser

Yet again this seems to be a standard reaction, people are "walking on eggshells" and having to make moves to protect kids identities.

If this country was not run by a load of limp wristed morons, this wouldn't be happening. This just goes to show that there is very little faith in the current justice system that britain has at the moment.

Looking forward to getting my copy of THE POLITICALLY CORRECT SCRAPBOOK

http://www.capc.co.uk/baa.jpg

Come with me to the land of batshit right-wing cartoonists

In the last ten or 20 years we've watched a lot of careers self-destruct by people who were making the same kind of little jokes and off-hand remarks they always made, but suddenly people realized how rude they were

And yet Sir Terry Wogan is still presenting the Eurovision Song Contest

http://www.bbc.co.uk/white/

How many times will "IT'S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD" be uttered during this, do we think? My money's on at least 50.

What, no Love Thy Neighbour or Melting Pot or Curry And Chips or It Ain't Half Hot Mum or Mind Your Language reruns?

That really is POLITICAL CORRECTNESS etc. etc.

Oh, is this why our local radio is banging on about poor white people still being poor and racist?

Snarkiness aside, that season does look like it might have some interesting programmes.

Looks shit to me

racist

Why don't they just get David Attenborough to do it and be done with it

The documentary on the Rivers of Blood speech looks good to me, at least.

The HYS on this topic is the predictable shower of idiots though:
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=4418&edition=1&ttl=20080306123527

Format of Rivers of Blood programme:

I PREDICT:

Gina Yashere
COMEDIAN

"Tiber flowing with blood? What was that all about? Eh, eh? Did he mean Tizer oh yes memories Spangles spacehopper Clout will that do?"

lol 60s, basically!

hugh influx of immigration ,.every high street transformed into bazars

Some sort of Four Weddings And A Funeral/Dollar deal going on here?

"Just see the unfortunate example of the murder of Kate Beagley by a black assassin. The verdict: He tried to steal her car and killed her in the attempt, case closed. Can you just imagine if the guy were white and the killed woman a black girl? God knows the size of the revolt, people demonstration in the streets, human rights groups crying for vengeance, covers and covers in the newspapers with the words 'racial attack' all over. This society has gone bonkers."

..., no, you have, mate

I always sort those by "READERS RECOMMENDED" to cut to the chase:

Your voice is more powerful than ours simply because of your colour. You are allowed to choose to call yourselves brown or black or whatever, we cannot do the same. You can have 'Black Entertainment' programmes on TV and proudly proclaim them. Imagine the outcry if we declared 'White Entertainment'. Remove the chip from your shoulder

jerryatric, BARNSLEY

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This is proberly the worst time in history and the worst place in the civilised world to be a white heterosexual working class male.
We work harder and longer than our Europeon allies, for worse pay ,worse conditions, worse pensions, worse healthcare.
Many of us are fighting wars in thwe middle East whilst their young come over here and get looked after by our welfare state, when our soldiers get injured, they are treated like third class citizens.
Yes, being white sucks!

pete tong

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Oh My God...can you actually say the word "white" in England in 2008 now and not face imprisonment for being racist?

John Smith, Greenford, United Kingdom

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and so on