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PC Police
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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?
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?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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