POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!
Discussion
I was nosing around a car boot sale recently when I came across a small group of people clearly having a heated arguement.
Apparently, amongst one family's selection of CDs and unwanted toys was a piggy bank in the shape of a pig (of course).
A couple of men of Indian descent were insisting that the "offending" item be removed from the sale as it was causing distress to them.
Now, since I was a kid, we have lost Robinson's Gollies from the jam, we can not teach our kids about the black sheep of the family.
Now don't get me wrong. I am not a racist. Some of my best friends are Asian and Afro Carribean and when I have mentioned this to them, they just think it is as daft as I do. Is it just a fanatical few who are taking offence or is it more deep rooted.
It is now getting to the point that we have to vet everything we say or do before we open our mouths.
Can anyone please expand on this as I am intrigued?
Apparently, amongst one family's selection of CDs and unwanted toys was a piggy bank in the shape of a pig (of course).
A couple of men of Indian descent were insisting that the "offending" item be removed from the sale as it was causing distress to them.
Now, since I was a kid, we have lost Robinson's Gollies from the jam, we can not teach our kids about the black sheep of the family.
Now don't get me wrong. I am not a racist. Some of my best friends are Asian and Afro Carribean and when I have mentioned this to them, they just think it is as daft as I do. Is it just a fanatical few who are taking offence or is it more deep rooted.
It is now getting to the point that we have to vet everything we say or do before we open our mouths.
Can anyone please expand on this as I am intrigued?
PC? Yes, probably.
Tolerance is the key. PC is enforced tolerance by the indiginous masses of minority beliefs. Unfortunately this does seem to be a one way street in a lot of cases, as there is no tolerance by those minorities for our beliefs.
What next? Sandwich bars stopped from producing BLT's and bacon butties?
Personally I find Chicken Tika Massala grossly offensive. Does anyone care?
Tolerance is the key. PC is enforced tolerance by the indiginous masses of minority beliefs. Unfortunately this does seem to be a one way street in a lot of cases, as there is no tolerance by those minorities for our beliefs.
What next? Sandwich bars stopped from producing BLT's and bacon butties?
Personally I find Chicken Tika Massala grossly offensive. Does anyone care?
360boy said:
IApparently, amongst one family's selection of CDs and unwanted toys was a piggy bank in the shape of a pig (of course).
A couple of men of Indian descent were insisting that the "offending" item be removed from the sale as it was causing distress to them.
I'd better alert ASDA when I go in to get cheap booze. After all we have a large muslim population round here (especially checkout gurls) who are surely planning to raze the place to the ground due to the amount of alcohol/fags/pork that are sold there. Oooh - and dont forget the Lottery machine.
Better keep an eye on them mutinous catholics too - Nov 5th is really rubbing their noses in it a bit.
And did anyone mention the
CRUSADES?
how is that politically correct anyway.
this means that they are pushing their opinions and views onto you!!
hardly politically correct now is it. live and let live for all concerned if something bothers you then look away move on and avert your eyes.
or can we christians complain about anything that might upset our sensibilities, bloomin pointless.
this means that they are pushing their opinions and views onto you!!
hardly politically correct now is it. live and let live for all concerned if something bothers you then look away move on and avert your eyes.
or can we christians complain about anything that might upset our sensibilities, bloomin pointless.
loaf said:
1. I'd have told them to fack off and stop disrespecting my religion (Jesus said it was OK to eat pork) while stuffing my face with a bacon sarnie
2. How long before 968 or Prof Beard's thread alarm rings?
1)Jesus was jewish (very) and unlikely to partake in/recomend pork. Good idea with the bacon buttie though
2)Unless they are having a day off - later
Z) I'm a teapot
loaf said:
1. I'd have told them to fack off and stop disrespecting my religion (Jesus said it was OK to eat pork) while stuffing my face with a bacon sarnie
2. How long before 968 or Prof Beard's thread alarm rings?
Oh I don't know... Peterpeter said he loves the smell of bacon sarnies.
It's not the race, it's the individual. If they were white, they would be moaning about kids playing with footballs or something. Should have
him hard in the face and told him to stop being a c
nt.360boy said:
A couple of men of Indian descent were insisting that the "offending" item be removed from the sale as it was causing distress to them.
Were the sellers ordered to remove it by the organisers of the sale? If not, then where's the problem? It's only really "political correctness gone mad" if bureacracy enforces it. Putting a piggy bank out at a boot sale, having someone complain about it and then nothing happening isn't actually political correctness gone mad. It's just two people "of Indian descent" making themselves look very, very silly.
360boy said:
It is now getting to the point that we have to vet everything we say or do before we open our mouths.
No, it's not really. I use the phrase "black sheep of the family" all the time. And so can you! Try it - see what happens.
On a lighter note:
Armando Ianucci said:
Of course, asylums are all called "care homes" these days...it's madness gone politically correct.
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