PC Police

[whippetycros]

Some posters express significant concern about the state of country and how they and others are not allowed to voice their concerns apart from on sites such as this.

How does this happen, personally I have never experienced someone or something preventing me from speaking. (Other than own judgment good taste etc)

So who are these language police and what is the sanction if you mention a subject that is allegedly prohibited?

[Theland]

Try speaking your mind on the BBC web sites, for a classic example of PC police. They call them 'Moderators.' I was banned from there for speaking up for what I believe.

[fagidill]

Theland : You Not Allowed Your Opinion On "BBC" As At The Top
Of The Ladder , Within The Beeb , Are A Number Of MUSLIM'S.

[Lonnie]

As things are in Britain right now, you only have to have someone percieve to be offended, or say something that someone thinks might offend someone else, and your in trouble.

We have a chap at work, who was talking to a friend, said something detrimental about a certain group of people, another chap standing nearby heard it, reported it, and the one who said it was demoted.

But its only come about in the last eleven years, so you have to ask, Why.

[jake-the-peg]

What exactly did he say behind this other guy's back Lonnie?

[jno]

it's not me, whippetycros, I tried to join but I failed the medical.

[WaldoMcFroog]

What normally happens is as follows:

1) Person A states view X.

View X will typicallly correspond to one of the following categories:

a) Willfully offensive and clearly abusive
b) Ill considered remark made in jest without regard to the consequences
c) Crass generalisation born from ignorance

2) Person B will say to person A that View X is innapropriate, citing a-c above as appropriate.

3) Person A will loudly declare that they live in a police state and it's political correctness gone mad if you can't go around being needlessly offensive to people without some PC fascist oppressing them and making their entire way of life redundant by saying something like, 'Oh, I say - that's a bit off.'

4) Person A will dredge up multiple instances of largely fictional, but in any case isolated, instances of jobsworths being over the top and declare it the every norm, and furthermore will convince themselves that there is a sinister cabal of PC Police out to get them and infringe on their typically white, middle class, heterosexual lives because, after all, they are they most discriminated against part of society, despite the fact that this is patantly not the case and utterly absurd. Good examples include: 'Winterval', 'Black boards' and 'Manholes'. These will be repeatedly shared with others of the same view until frothing appears at the mouth and annual holidays to Daily Mail island all round. Richard Littlejohn declared national saint.

5) Person B will then get on with the business of not wasting the precious gift of life on trivialities.

[China Doll]

I really think Waldo deserves stars and possibly a loud kiss on the cheek for that answer!

[Lonnie]

jake, doesn't really matter, it was a private conversation, and it didn't concern the person who overheard, instead of taking it up with the chap who was speaking, chose instead to report him.

To me, that was nasty and underhand, but thats the state of the country today.

ps,
You never came back on what I said in my last post on my last thread.

Apologies for that last bit whippetycros.

[whippetycros]

Theland the BBC website has rules - if you dont stick to them like offside, you can not complain when they won't let you play

fagidill, are you mad or something - or maybe your post is really clever, too clever for the likes of me

Lonnie you must work for a weird company that doesn't follow any employment law.

WaldoMcFroog, if it wasn't so ubiquiteous, I would add lol, certainly wouldn't slaver over you though.

[jake-the-peg]

No Lonnie it DOES matter

I rather think you won't tell us because it undermines your argument.

Was it by any chance a nasty tiny minded little racist slur?

Sounds to me as if your employer is taking a strong stance against racism in the workplace and should be applauded

Or am I wrong?

[Lonnie]

Whippetycros,
I drive trains for the London Underground,

Jake, for this thread, it doesn't matter, I said it happened, and it did, also, it wasn't about race, and as I said, the one that reported him really should have first spoken to him.

[littleoldme]

Waldo McFroog - Post of the Year! (I'm aware it's only 5th January).

Damn these PC types, eh? Why, I didn't even realise Christmas had happened - there was no mention of it anywhere - it was just Winterval this, Winterval that. It's really caught on. Not only that, but every time I try to teach my 2 year old niece the words to Baa Baa Black Sheep, a highly trained SWAT team crash through the window and tazer me into submission, and worse still, all the bananas in my fruit bowl are completely straight. As Saint Richard himself would put it, you couldn't make it up.

[littleoldme]

On the other side of the coin, I should point out that I do agree with Lonnie that the person taking offence at his friend's comment should have taken it up with him first, to at least give him the chance to explain his views. Who knows? They may have ended up having a sensible debate and even engendering some mutual respect...or not. But running and snitching, as any seven year old will tell you, is simply not on.

[gonzo00]

can anyone enlighten me? re.pc...take the N word for instance. why is it ok for a coloured person to call another coloured person by this word yet if a white person does this all hell breaks loose....surely that is racisism in reverse???