bulker
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Post by bulker on Sept 10, 2008 22:48:14 GMT
It's funny isn't it, how everyone I know, everyone I've spoken to, everyone who's commented on here hates political correctness, yet those in authority, be it government, or company bosses seem to be obsessed with it, and will do/ban anything to please certain groups.
Incidentally Rusty Red Scrap Iron, a general election has to be called within 5 years of the last election, and on average, there tend to be 4 year intervals with the last happening in 2005. With the current situation, there's no telling whether there will be one next year or not, and Gordon Brown might easily wait until 2010, the last minute, as did John Major in 1997.
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SRapi
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Post by SRapi on Sept 3, 2012 3:38:42 GMT
The problem with politically correct people is that their hearts are in the right place. They don't want certain people to feel excluded or pressured or feel as though they are different. The problem with that is that it leads to everyone feeling equally on edge and nervous about being offensive when normally they could speak their minds and move on. I wish there was a simple solution, but there just isn't one.
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Lua
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Post by Lua on Jul 22, 2014 18:28:04 GMT
One thing I've always despised about political correctness, particularly in the West, is that it reinforces the idea that certain people are sacred cows who cannot be criticized lest they become offended. Even if they do wrong.
Case in point: Muslims (especially if they're Middle Eastern -- but hey, all Muslims are Middle Eastern, am I right?), upper-middle class feminist women from first world countries, etc. The hypocrisy is painful to witness.
I was about to moan about how the Western world seems to collectively turn a blind eye to the rampant bigotry in Islam and Muslim-majority countries in fear of being called "Islamophobic racists", but I decided not to because I feel like this isn't the right forum for that.
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Rexeljet
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Post by Rexeljet on Jul 24, 2014 9:52:51 GMT
I'll just write my 1.17 pence here. For some reason I can't stand the term "political correctness". I think it's got something to do with traditionalists and nostalgists who blame it on everything they don't like. I'll say that political correctness works when used properly. For example, we rarely see negative stereotypes of races in children's media anymore, which can only be a good thing. Blaming political correctness on things that have nothing to do with political correctness is something that really gets on my wick. In old comic strips, the main character would often get whacked with a slipper as a punishment for their bad deeds. This practice was done away with at the end of the eighties because it was old hat. It was around this sort of era where many British comics had fallen badly behind the times and the removal of the slipper was a means of remedying this, and yet everyone seems to think it was political correctness that is to "blame" for getting rid of the slipper in comics. I moaned about this in more detail here. I think that the idea that certain races can't be criticised is definitely politically incorrect. I'd say it's an insult to white Europeans, but I think it's more insulting to the non-white races themselves. Political correctness should mean all races and genders are treated equally. Another thing that gets on my nerves is when a show, or comic strip, or series of novels, introduces a minority character for the sake of having a minority character. By this, I mean that the character isn't treated like a character; it just feels like he or she was created to fill a quota. They're often just shoehorned into the series where they're not needed or don't do anything of importance because the writers can't think of anything to do with them. Ideally the minority character should be treated like the rest of the cast and be an established, likeable character in their own right. If not, then they're not serving their indented purpose, and people will only remember them as "that black/Asian/Hispanic character". "Five token bands" a la Captain Planet where every corner of the globe is represented is also something I'm not a fan of due to how contrived they feel.
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Post by Le Bateau à Voile on Aug 2, 2014 2:48:18 GMT
Nothing wrong with being politically correct.. Though personally, I prefer to call it "politeness". Respect women as equal human beings, respect people of other skin colours and races, and respect the beliefs of eachother and everyone should get along just fine. Of course when people begin to over-do it.. *Cough*tumblrsocialrightsactivism*Cough* There are some people you just can't please, and I guess that's just the size of it. Life is difficult, just take it with a grain of salt, be considerate and you'll get along just fine.
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Post by Rusty Red Scrap Iron on Aug 4, 2014 15:14:22 GMT
Since when I last posted about this topic, and having had a real study of Political Correctness - I just simply hate it as to me its like a virus that has gone too far, is going completely over the top and hasn't been well thought out (kind of like with the Coalition's Work Programme, which is a whole other story as I have so much negativity regarding that crap).
But I definitely agree with Rexeljet's point, if you want to be Politically Correct then it should be for everyone - not where one is simply shut down in favour of the other, which is definitely Politically Incorrect. Then again I agree with Aussie Comedian Steve Hughes' point about PC, it seems like Kids stuff for Adults which is something you'd think they'd know how to deal with someone offending them but teaching Kids how to be proud of who they are rather than have someone take their Thunder and wield it to make you look like an idiot.
If you haven't seen Steve Hughes' about PC (which also includes a segment about Health and Safety and Smoking) then here's the link:
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