Political Correctness Gone Mad?

[StraferJack]

ooops

[Brendan]

That's what he said.

[ratty]

WAC!

[Brendan]

Western Australia Cricket?

[david_carnell]

Unsurprisingly the Telegraph aren't allowing comments on that article - they make the people who post on the Daily Mail seem logical and happy-go-lucky.

[Undisputedtruth]

Another Tory showing their true colours. And to think this person is teaching kids as well.

The Tory party isn't exact an advert for political correctiveness and these days workers lose their jobs for saying much less.

[StraferJack]

but remember, many Tories will say even this is an example of PC gone mad

[katie1997]

Strafer, you've got to be joking. No-one could construe it as so, the remark about bunnies as being less offensive as using the word animals was even more galling in itself. Did he think anyone would believe that for a second? So no, I don't think anyone will see it as him being a victim of pc-gone-mad (by people with a brain, that is)

PS - going back a page, did you spot that comment from SeanMac (RIP) "mum doing kitcheny things in the kitchen" !! Glad HE'S gone...harrumph.

[maxxi]

'Looking at the dictionary it would appear...' well bless my soul.

This is presumably an advanced dictionary that gives lists of ethnic slurs?

[LadyDeliah]

I've been pleasantly surprised by some of the stories run by the Torygraph of late. They have been sticking the boot in a bit with the ConDems and their cronies.

[StraferJack]

now Katie, you SAY that - but there is a reason the telegraph will have closed the article to comments.

[katie1997]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> now Katie, you SAY that - but there is a reason

> the telegraph will have closed the article to

> comments.

Yeah, I ws going to comment on that earlier but as I don't read the Torygraph regularly (and never the opinion pieces anyway as I hate those in whatever paper) but...my understanding is that anyone who thinks the paper (certainly over the last 5years if not more) is very right-wing is mistaken. Its as bland as the Independent.

So wholly surprised to see that bit about comments not being allowed but there you go...

[StraferJack]

My comment wasn?t really a reflection on the Telegraph. Or any paper that closes it?s comments to particular articles. But when you get the hate-merchants in full-flow on any board ? including this one* - it?s not a pretty sight . (or even a legal one sometimes)

*I?m thinking of some of the long-removed posts from certain repeatedly-banished visitors

Edited to say an earlier comment of mine said "some Tories" would say this was an example of PC gone mad. And that is true - if this guy thinks he can say it, he will have friends who certainly think that way. But I shouldn't have been so specific.. I should have said many, mostly right-wing people, will think this is an example of PC gone too far

And it is these people who would have hit the comments section hard

It's not contentious btw, to say that it does tend to be right-wing (or 'libertarians' as some insist) who are obsessed with PC stopping them doing things is it?

[ratty]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Western Australia Cricket?

If you please ;)

[StraferJack]

Latest example of nutters spreading lies

Anti Christian BBC at it. Again

[Salsaboy]

Daily Mail. Say no more.

[StraferJack]

Some people think the mail is just another paper with it's own slant on things, just like any other paper

Those people are incorrect

[Otta]

Basically agree with the vast majority of what he said, until he got (IMO) a bit nasty about Christians at the end, like they are all Mail reading facists.

[maxxi]

Speaking of nutters, Beefy has been putting forward innovative ways of preventing future inner-city riots...

cricket and corporal punishment

..actually uses the phrase "It didn't do me any harm..."

[Huguenot]

But seriously, after 2000 years of burning dissenters and torturing 16 year old girls who need a bit of loving care, who really gives a monkeys about Christians getting some verbal on the BBC?

Most people who burned on a stake drowned in their own lungs desperate attempts to lubricate the flames.

Get a sense of perspective, please.

[Marmora Man]

The majority of the world's population subscribe to one of the three Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity or Islam.

This year is:

1432 AH if you are a Moslem

2011 AD if your are a Christian

5771 AM if you are Jewish

If, like me, you ae an atheist, then you could expect to use a dating system that reflects the tradition of e country in which you live. In UK that would be a western Christian tradition - thus we use the terms AD / BC and they should carry no pejorative connotation nor any element of offence to other faiths.

I doubt many Muslims or Jews are worrying about it - altho' the Jewish faith will, when referring to the Gregorian / Western Christian calendar avoid the use of the term Lord or Christ as the figure referred to is n ot considered a Lord / Christ in their religion.

This whole matter seems petty and of very minor significance - except in that it represents a shift away from Britain's western Christian tradition, and I deplore a shift from tradition unless there is a very good reason. I can see no very good reason for this proposed change in terminology.

Edited for spelling and clarity

[Alan Medic]

Jewish New Year 5772 - September 2011

The Muslim News

Both these publications use AD dates in their publications.

[silverfox]

Complete and utter madness.

Common Era???

what the hell is all that about - what does it mean? the dinosaurs ruled for 200 million years, is that a common era?

And, to prove their own idiocy, BCE and Ace both equate to BC and AD.

They'll be banning advertising of peanuts soon because one person in a million is allergic to them.

[StraferJack]

People seem to be missing the point - it's a non-story, dressing up something to have a nother pop at a supposed "PC gone mad"

no-one is banning anything, the BBC continue to use BC and AD and noone has suggested it's offending any other religions

But then again I'm a celsius man, nor a farenheit guy, so maybe I would say that. I'm also quite keen on decimal and wouldn't want to go back to pounds, shillings and pence. Or groats

[StraferJack]

I can't believe I post a story, highlighting the lunacy of yet another "AND NBOW THEY ARE BANNING THIS!!!" headline, showing how the whole story is NOT TRUE and some people are responding as if it is true

I give up