P.C governments need to die very quickly to preserve our way of life. This is a topic that I feel very strongly about and hate the state of my country because we can't play a game of conkers without FUCKING GOGGLES!
Or climb a tree without a safety harness.
Or go up a 4 foot ladder without a hard hat.
Or walk in the countryside in case we trip and sue the local council.
Or call christmas, christmas in case we offend Muslims.
Or call christmas lights, fairy lights in case we offend gay people.
Or change the words of an age old nursery rhyme so not to offend black people. Who were never offended by it in the first place.
Or call a chalk board a "black board" for the reason above.
Or not moving 3 caravans of Gypsy travellers off PRIVATE land next to my house because they "haven't done anything illegal yet".
Or you can't say brainstorm 'cos that's what happens to people with epilepsy when they have a fit. Even though the two things had never been connected until some bright spark thought it could offend someone!
Or do anything that involves leaving our homes without a written statement saying you won't sue anyone if you graze your knee!
"Bah Bah, African American Sheep. Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir. 3 bags full.
Can I have it?
No. Get permission from the government to handle bags of wool so you don't come back and sue me, first!"
And you know the absolute worst thing?
A store chain called the "Early Learning Centre" that sells toys for small kids removed pigs from a farmyard set, in case it offended anyone.
WELL IT OFFENDS ME THAT YOU DID THAT!
Unknown person on the internet said:
I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else.
Quote from Violent Arces said:
Political correctness does not create a more tolerant society. It creates a society of people secretly consumed by resentment because one honest slip of the tongue can earn them a label as an intolerant boob. Political correctness limits speech and creates hatred where none existed in the first place.
Link [http://www.violentacres.com/archives/116/im-sick-of-political-correctness/]
Couldn't agree more.
Gildan Bladeborn said:
Screw political correctness sideways with a poleaxe. The lunatic fringe of liberals who are the biggest proponents of "PC language" are apparently completely oblivious to the sad fact that their incessant tap-dancing around language to avoid any possible method of giving offense is, in fact, offensive in and of itself - by treating the various minorities they're seeking to protect from being offended as distinct minorities in dire need of protection from having their feelings hurt by language that isn't even intentionally discriminatory for crying out loud, they hurt their own bloody cause.
Ham-handed attempts to make our language more "inclusive" ring false to just about everyone who isn't a wack-job Political Correctness proponent, as the unspoken message conveyed by PC language is thus: "You are a minority, so I shall alter my speech patterns to avoid inadvertently offending you in some way, and thereby draw further attention to the fact that when I look at you, I perceive your defining trait to be that you are a minority".
If you don't see the problem with that, consider the unspoken message conveyed when someone speaks to a minority the same way they speak to everyone else they meet (presuming of course that they do not ordinarily speak in a fashion that could only be perceived as denigrating to minorities by any reasonable listener[footnote]Not Political Correctness gurus in other words.[/footnote]): "You are a person, so I will speak to you like I speak to everyone else, duh."
In a nutshell, the pointless efforts to make our language [whatever]-blind only draws attention to the fact that the speaker isn't [whatever]-blind, as they felt they needed to change the way they speak on a fairly fundamental level because some people they might talk to are different than others. It's frankly rather insulting and condescending to the very individuals they're supposedly "protecting" by making those clunky revisions to our language. So screw Political Correctness - just treat people like people.
Plus everything said here.
but seriously that sounds like a good book. also do you actually learn this stuff in universitys and colleges?
