Are You Sick And Tired Of Political Correctness?

[Stargazer]

Apparently "whiter than white" was flagged up recently as being inappropriate!
Could this become the ultimate definition of the term whitewashing?

[woofgang]

nope and nope.

[jackthehat]

That's a double 'nope' from me, too.

[david small]

Yes to the hilt.

[retrocop]

Yes.

[jno]

no, no

[andy-hughes]

It's not a straight 'yes or no question'.

The phrase 'political correctness' is used to jeer at any OTT and irrelevant attempt to make an issue where none actually exists, usually for the benefit of the instigator, rather than the correction of the issue.

It does take away from the fact that daily challenges against unfairness, prejudice, manipulation of facts, oppression, and so on, are all very much part of the world in which we live, and are essential if we are to educate society as a whole to behave better.

So I would say I am against extreme and pointless examples of PC - but the concept itself is valuable and should be supported fully.

[Spicerack]

// and are essential if we are to educate society as a whole to behave better. //

Lol.

[Arksided]

Yes. I'm not offensive... etc... but its gone bonkers.

Bonkers.. I await the uproar.

[tonyav]

I have nothing against bonking, Arky.

[Arksided]

Me either... I'm sure you're a lovely man though ;-)

[andy-hughes]

Spicerack - // / and are essential if we are to educate society as a whole to behave better. //

Lol. //

I may live to regret this - but why does that amuse you?

[zebo]

A colleague was setting up her lab for an Open Evening, she asked her volunteer pupils Who's manning this bench? A snotty Governor walking round before the start berated her, in front of the male and female pupils, for her use of the word 'manning'. I think I would have walked out.
The other evening the talk at the pub was about various TV programmes, a male was berated for referring to a woman on TV as 'a bit of all right', when I referred to a male actor as 'sex on legs' she was silent.
The general level of hypocrisy is why many can't take the trivia seriously.

[gingejbee]

No....I'm sick and tired of people with nothing better to be sick and tired about.

[bainbrig]

Andy’s point about educating society is sound.

Through making the defamatory word for black people totally unacceptable amongst right-thinking people, a large contribution has been made to the fight against racism. Feminists, too, have managed (maybe less successfully) to stop some of the worst woman-hating terms and phrases being used in ‘everyday’ speech.

It is important that people ARE educated, and made to think twice before coming out with some racist/sexist remark.

(I don’t include you, Spicerack, of course).

[spathiphyllum]

Yes i see it as a form of extremism and censorship.

[bainbrig]

Yes, whiter than white/manhole/all the other nonsense IS nonsense.

But only the very stupid would throw out the baby of political correctness with the bathwater of infantile idiocy.

[spathiphyllum]

I just can't be bothered with people moaning all the time. In my opinion, shut up or fail to survive

[spathiphyllum]

In my personal life and position, i do not see inequality anywhere. So my perception of all of this noise is just people moaning. My life consists of equality for everyone involved in it. I've never seen someone not be equal for their gender, colour or anything else for that matter. Maybe that's just the area i live in..

[AuntLydia]

Personally I think the 'outraged' are a small minority of journalists tweeters and bloggers on the bandwagon of indignity.
I am sick of 'people' being 'outraged' on my account. Maybe I'm missing something but 'whiter than white' refers to the colour white not 'white people' surely?

[spathiphyllum]

Yes AL but if one person finds it offensive then apparently it is racist.