Dynamite Duane Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 We've had these news items the past week related to what you can and can't say - middle-class BBC employee Jeremy Clarkson joking about shooting strikers, the working-class white woman on the Croydon Tram being racially abusive, Jimmy Carr telling a joke about disabled people.  My Tram Experience http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=i4...ature=endscreen  My Tram Experience in France http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe...p;v=ZSubcoKZFfo  Also I'll throw this one in with this: Immigration and EU do people not want to discuss in public for fear of being labelled a racist?  Political correctness - what does it mean to YOU? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 It is a term wrongly used by arseholes to cover their bigotry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 3, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted December 3, 2011 We can't have hot tea any more. In case it offends a Sikh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 It is a term wrongly used by arseholes to cover their bigotry. Â Â As above pretty much. Â It's a term used by people to be cunts about what they 'did' in their day, when back in their day never really existed in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 It is a term wrongly used by arseholes to cover their bigotry. Â This pretty much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted December 3, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted December 3, 2011 Stewart Lee: Â It really worries me that 84% of this audience agrees with that statement, because the kind of people that say "political correctness gone mad" are usually using that phrase as a kind of cover action to attack minorities or people that they disagree with. I'm of an age that I can see what a difference political correctness has made. When I was four years old, my grandfather drove me around Birmingham, where the Tories had just fought an election campaign saying, "if you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Labour," and he drove me around saying, "this is where all the niggers and the coons and the jungle bunnies live." And I remember being at school in the early 80s and my teacher, when he read the register, instead of saying the name of the one asian boy in the class, he would say, "is the black spot in," right? And all these things have gradually been eroded by political correctness, which seems to me to be about an institutionalised politeness at its worst. And if there is some fallout from this, which means that someone in an office might get in trouble one day for saying something that someone was a bit unsure about because they couldn't decide whether it was sexist or homophobic or racist, it's a small price to pay for the massive benefits and improvements in the quality of life for millions of people that political correctness has made. It's a complete lie that allows the right, which basically controls media now, and international politics, to make people on the left who are concerned about the way people are represented look like killjoys. And I'm sick, I'm really sick-- 84% of you in this room that have agreed with this phrase, you're like those people who turn around and go, "you know who the most oppressed minorities in Britain are? White, middle-class men." You're a bunch of idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vice Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Stewart Lee indeed nailed it. I always think of what has been quoted above when people mention political correctness. Irrefutably, it is a good thing. And if someone's called you up for saying something politically incorrect, why not stop and think that there's actually a problem with what you're saying and it's offensive for a reason, not "the world's gone mad." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 I feel the urge to punch anyone who bangs on about the "good old days" and Stewart Lee did indeed nail it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 I knew we wouldn't get past the first page without that Stewart Lee quote or YouTube link, that's because it is bang on the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig The Hunter Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Saw the Stewart Lee video yesterday, and as has been said, he nailed it spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted December 3, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted December 3, 2011 PC = a load of bollocks. There's being considerate of other people, and then there's just making new terms up for the sake of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Political correctness is a term invented by the likes of The Sun & The Daily Mail. It doesn't exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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