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http://www.dailymail....girls-pub-crawls.html
Seems like the pantomime horse and cow are on their way out then?
Will we see an end to 'Tarts' & 'Vicars' I am at a loss where will it all end?
Where next will this out of control PC weapon strike?
Seems like the pantomime horse and cow are on their way out then?
Will we see an end to 'Tarts' & 'Vicars' I am at a loss where will it all end?
Where next will this out of control PC weapon strike?
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"'The Guild is not demanding that all such performances stop.
'We are merely asking for your consideration in making sure that your own individual behaviour is not harming, insulting or mocking another student.'
and I'm merely saying GET A LIFE !
one of the replies -
"That puts paid to the Krankies."
- Jings, Glasgow, 22/2/2012 12:04
brilliant !
'We are merely asking for your consideration in making sure that your own individual behaviour is not harming, insulting or mocking another student.'
and I'm merely saying GET A LIFE !
one of the replies -
"That puts paid to the Krankies."
- Jings, Glasgow, 22/2/2012 12:04
brilliant !
Firstly, 'The University' has not ordered this. The Students' organisation has.
This may seem like pedantry, but it's important. Anybody who has even the most basic familiarity with student life will be able to tell you that students' unions are typically elected on extremely small (and often below-quorum) levels of turnout from their populations. They are also prone to quite regularly pass resolutions at woefully-underattended meetings which are invariable not implemented (I can say this myself as someone who for various boring/complicated reasons was forced by circumstance to sit on the student council at my university for a year). "Emergency" resolutions like bans on coca-cola, 'declaring solidarity' with striking workers in Latin America, highly-pretentious long arguments over how to implement gender-neutral wording into signs or constitutions etc., are all very common.
In AOG's hands however, a well-intentioned but meaningless and fairly pedestrian announcement by a students' organisation is apparently a prime example of the 'out of control PC weapon' threatening to destroy our freedoms.
I've said this numerous times before, but I'll say it again: There is no such thing as political correctness. Or at the very least there is no such thing as the ridiculous totalitarian liberal conspiracy regularly imagined by the man on the street and the gutter press whenever they use this term.
This may seem like pedantry, but it's important. Anybody who has even the most basic familiarity with student life will be able to tell you that students' unions are typically elected on extremely small (and often below-quorum) levels of turnout from their populations. They are also prone to quite regularly pass resolutions at woefully-underattended meetings which are invariable not implemented (I can say this myself as someone who for various boring/complicated reasons was forced by circumstance to sit on the student council at my university for a year). "Emergency" resolutions like bans on coca-cola, 'declaring solidarity' with striking workers in Latin America, highly-pretentious long arguments over how to implement gender-neutral wording into signs or constitutions etc., are all very common.
In AOG's hands however, a well-intentioned but meaningless and fairly pedestrian announcement by a students' organisation is apparently a prime example of the 'out of control PC weapon' threatening to destroy our freedoms.
I've said this numerous times before, but I'll say it again: There is no such thing as political correctness. Or at the very least there is no such thing as the ridiculous totalitarian liberal conspiracy regularly imagined by the man on the street and the gutter press whenever they use this term.
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