Are you politically correct?
27 August 2003, 03:56 PM
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Here's an interesting point - in music you hear ****** a hell of a lot - admittedly it is in hip hop/r'n'b and it is by coloured artists but this looks like one rule for some another for others...
27 August 2003, 04:31 PM
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What pee's me off most about the PC brigade is the fact that most of them don't belong to the minority they are supposedly defending.. A classic example being...
I used to edit a car magazine for a car club with 5000 members.. I once published a letter someone sent in which had some dialogue written in the way of a Japanese person speaking English.. I got loads of letters from white middle class members (in every sense of the word), complaining. I felt very guilty as we had a couple of Japanese members. I wrote to them personally saying I was sorry if I'd caused offense my intention was humour.. I got a lovely letter back saying 'no need for aporogy my engleesh is clap but me think it better than your Japanese!'... class
I used to edit a car magazine for a car club with 5000 members.. I once published a letter someone sent in which had some dialogue written in the way of a Japanese person speaking English.. I got loads of letters from white middle class members (in every sense of the word), complaining. I felt very guilty as we had a couple of Japanese members. I wrote to them personally saying I was sorry if I'd caused offense my intention was humour.. I got a lovely letter back saying 'no need for aporogy my engleesh is clap but me think it better than your Japanese!'... class
27 August 2003, 04:41 PM
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Ah yes, that's it. Doesn't quite sound how i remember it, when i could recite it in complete innocence with absolutely *NO* unpleasant ramifications, but hey, maybe it's just my memory playing up...
27 August 2003, 05:25 PM
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Absolutely, I firmly believe in calling a 'spade a spade'... No seriously our local dole office tried to 'place' a deaf guy as our receptionist- I kid u not!
27 August 2003, 05:44 PM
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white is white black is black why cant it just be dealt with? i mean, changin the name of black coffee? its coffe not a person whats the problem?? the coffee aint gona get offended now is it?
28 August 2003, 03:12 PM
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Whats is their authority anyway for "not allowing" us to use words like black, ******, golliwog etc. Is it part of British law now? Or can we just ignore them without fear of prosecution?
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29 August 2003, 05:36 PM
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Maybe, but why should there be such a fuss about it all anyway. I don't notice the colour of a bloke's skin any more now. It is of no importance. What matters is whether he is a decent person or not and his colour should not enter into consideration anyway. All this PC nonsense is totally non productive. It creates the very atmosphere it tries to avoid.
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30 August 2003, 03:39 PM
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Golliwogs. I remember them. Had quite a few on my windowsill when I was a kid.
Also had a book aboiut a kid called Little Black Sambo. It's no doubt a criminal offence to even possess these now
Chip.
Also had a book aboiut a kid called Little Black Sambo. It's no doubt a criminal offence to even possess these now
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30 August 2003, 03:53 PM
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I still have my golliwog toast rack - its mint - offers anyone?
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I know someone who got tuned down for a job with Birmingham social services because he referred to his "Walkman", not his "walkperson". Apparently its walkperson, so as not to effect the strap-a-dick-to-me brigade of dungaree, roll-up smoking, cretins.
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[Edited by The Saint - 8/30/2003 3:55:18 PM]
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I know someone who got tuned down for a job with Birmingham social services because he referred to his "Walkman", not his "walkperson". Apparently its walkperson, so as not to effect the strap-a-dick-to-me brigade of dungaree, roll-up smoking, cretins.
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[Edited by The Saint - 8/30/2003 3:55:18 PM]
30 August 2003, 04:33 PM
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It's defo a sad state of affairs when you can't call black people black of fat people fat, etc.
What ever happened to freedom of speech?
BTW Can we still call the French frogs?
What ever happened to freedom of speech?
BTW Can we still call the French frogs?
30 August 2003, 07:55 PM
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Only read the first post but if the last point about airline pilots 
is true then the world has gone truly insane [tell us something we don't know i hear you say...],i therefore take it as a compliment if anyone says that i am insane, as in an insane world this in fact means i am surely sane(..ish) 
is true then the world has gone truly insane [tell us something we don't know i hear you say...],i therefore take it as a compliment if anyone says that i am insane, as in an insane world this in fact means i am surely sane(..ish)
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