IT'S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!

Actually, this one is better.

Is it actually true that some US news organ referred to Nelson Mandela as the first African American President of South Africa?

it's not clear-cut though, because anti-abortionists want to be called "pro-life" etc. That's a kind of political correctness, but people don't call it that.

However, the regulator said in future it would look at all such cases individually and that "the level of editorial justification required for the inclusion of smoking in such cartoons is necessarily high".

And to think, I grew up in an era where racist stereotypes were already edited out of Tom and Jerry and Loony Tunes episodes. Look at what I missed. Now kids don't even get smoking (well not all of it--they get to maintain the "value of the animation").

IT'S GONE MAD. MAD I TELL YOU!

Is it 2006, or is it NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR?!?!?!

http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/od_nm/india_hitler_dc&e=9797&sig=__zDXDL7G_OaorrS3e_UABJka4sFo=

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1015/1015507_600_face_court_for_feet.html

probably more 'nanny state' but ech.

i saw some news bit where a school banned the game of tag

On The One Show on BBC1 last night, there was an old woman who wants these signs banned:

http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/images/signs106.gif

Because, basically, "just because we're old, doesn't mean we walk in single-file".

Jesus christ, some people need more important things to think about

xpost
The Mail is all in a tiz about this.

It has nothing to do with political correctness though, does it?

xpost re: School banning tag.

It was one big bluff:

"No, no, it's banned. You can't. It doesn't count.......... IT!!!" (runs away)

So the mail is for zero tolearance except when you are middle class

As for tag, well I know quite a few schools banned it in the US last year. Again, though, it's not really political correctness. I think it's more to do with vocal parents. If one parent complains about something at my children's school it'll generally lead to a comment on the school newsheet. And often the head teacher will ban something if he gets even just a couple of complaints. Sadly, I am a lone voice demanding that my kids should be allow to smoke on the playing fields (as I did in my day and my father before me...)

and "wearing flip-flops" and have a good set of photos available, now the A Level passing season is over.

Also:

Then, magistrates at Chester were presented with the case of a 19-year-old Cub Scout leader caught lolling in a train carriage with her feet (clad in flipflop sandals) resting on the seat in front of her.

So, watch out, you excelsiors!

So the mail is for zero tolearance except when you are middle class

Or a car driver.

From the comments on the feet article:

"I wonder precisely how young and pretty one has to be before one can break the rules with impunity."

It did cross my mind that the 250 people prosecuted before the pretty young white maths student cub scout leader who works with disabled children didn't warrant a news article about these "draconian" measures that have been in place for 6 months.

I hate getting my pants dirty on train seats.

put them on yr flip-flops then!

"I am a liberal by inclination"

pffft

TS: Zero tolerance must mean exactly that...even if she's a sweet maths student vs Nice people, people like me and Kathleen Jennings ... are simply exercising our civil liberties when we try to make ourselves comfortable in public places.

Maybe this should go in the 'how shit is the Guardian these days' thread.

if i'm reading this right, a whole bunch of you think people should be in court for this trivial shit...?

It sort of breaks into Ben Elton's classic "doubleseat" routine as well.

I haven't seen anybody go one way or the other here. xpost

The article's main point is the targetting of 'non-threatening' people, but seeing as how 250 other people got summonsed too, how could they know? They might all have been asbo hoodied pikey asylum seekers for all they kno.

No, I don't think she should be in court for it, I'm just point out the double standard.

Me also.

What this boils down to is that when someone puts their feet on the seats, SURE they ought to receive a ticking-off, but it SHOULDN'T result in a fine, or worse, a news article.

but the MAIL was pointing out the double-standard. the mail was saying lock middle-class people too, for great justice.

So how should Merseyrail solve the problem of their dirty train seats?

Remove all the seats and replace solid floors with grating.

But that's not the Mail's usual stance of "stop picking on careless speeding drivers, not when there's real crimes going on". xxpost

Ban students. Especially in the first few weeks of term when freshers can't shut the fuck up.

xp

it's partly merseyrail's problem, partly everyone else who ride's the line's. the guardian woman who says "hey, we're all selfish cunts right?" is wrong.

xpost

yeah i know, but to be fair, it is pure revenue, the speeding fines thing. again an issue of stop being cunts, i guess, but fines for slightly breaking the limit? ech.

What fucks me off is used to travel on Merseyrail regularly in the late 90's and you always had to work out which seats had been pissed on before you sat down.

You have to wear flip flops to avoid getting piss on your feet.

I'll always treasure the old "but I don't wear those kinds of shoes" while pointing at the sign in protest when told to take feet off.

Santas warned their "Ho ho ho" may be offensive to women

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115/wl_asia_afp/lifestyleaustraliachristmasoffbeat

Let a ho ho ho be a ho ho ho.

Score one for the batshit rightwing cartoonists

The idea of Santa saying "ha ha ha" IS fucking hysterical though for some reason

That is typical telegraph bullshit. Even the company involved says they aren't doing it.

I love it when they run a whole story then smuggle a quote in at the end from the alleged perpetrator saying "yeah is this definitely not happening at all".

The imaginary war on Christmas is my favourite political correctness gone mad gone mad

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6804421078

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html

LOL @ facebook M0RANS group:

ANYONE WHO JOINS THE GROUP AND DOESNT READ WHAT ITS BOUT BEFORE POSTING A COMMENT WHICH SAYS THAT THE GROUP IS BOLLOCKS, AND WE ARE ALL SUCKERS FOR BELIEVING IT BLAH FUCKING BLAH BLAH SHOULD GO AWAY AND NOT BOTHER JOINING, BLOODY HELL SORT YOUR LIVES OUT.

IE don't you dare tell us that the entire premise of our group & victim culture mission st8ment is based on total bollocks that somebody MADE UP!

NB the first posted item - b|\|p video, also one of the wall posts starts w/"im no racist but..."

Feh, delete humanity.

we aren't going to make it, are we

Someone on my Facebook friends list joined a group called "COMMON SENSE RIP", which was just a long string of awful e-mail round robin "BARMY BRUSSELLS BEAUCRATS WANT TO BAN TIPEX BECAUSE IT'S RACIST" shit. I then defriended her.

Examples of political correctness gone too far.

well spotted, heave ho.

Examples please.
-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, June 9, 2004 1:56 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

Examples of political correctness gone too far.
-- N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, June 9, 2004 1:59 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

According to a tiny column filler in the Times, the author Lindsey Gardiner has said that her publishing editors objected to a scene in one her books where a dragons toasted marshmallows by using the flames from its nose on the grounds that 'it looked dangerous and went against health and safety'.

Update: Also in the Telegraph.

Another of her novels, When Poppy and Max Grow Up, initially included a scene where a little boy climbed a ladder, but that too was changed. "They didn't allow Max to be on a ladder because they thought it was precarious. But when I changed it, I had him standing on a pile of three paint cans, which is much more dangerous, and they didn't have a problem with that," she said.

That is some MPAA-level shit.

"Liberals" are a funny lot. Just read the Christmas letter my boss is sending out to people we work with Asia and Africa, where she is at pains to point out that Christmas is basically a Pagan festival, she actually says at one point "...there aren't that many practising Christians left in the UK". She is one of those mythical people you read about but imagine don't really exist, who actually think it will offend people of other religions or cultures if you imply that Christmas has anything to do with Christianity.

Life's too short really...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_controversy

Cos Muslims around the world wd be way more down with Pagan fertility festivals.

I don't think we actually deal with Muslims - maybe a few, actually most of the Africans we deal with ARE Christian!

Oh man Prince needs to make a holiday album called Christmas Controversy.

I don't understand
Why we're putting up this tree
Wassail always gets
Popage from extended familu

family

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=O5EVTZUXLXBK1QFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/14/nbacon114.xml

f u nu-ilx

will we ever be able to give out racist joke presents again in the current politically correct climate of policing?!

Jokes bruv.

From an interview with Miss Manners:

Barbara Lane: People often say that there has been a decline in civility over the past several decades. Is that accurate?

Judith Martin: Yes, but there's also been an increase. We have seen, first of all, the result of generations of children being told by very well-meaning parents, Now you don't worry what other people think about you, you go out and search yourself and get what you want, and never mind what other people think. So they have done this beautifully, and that's the decline, I suppose, to which you're referring. And all the older people joined in; it's not just one generation or two.

But people forget the enormous progress that has been made in the last few decades. Not that long ago, people could say the most appalling, bigoted things with impunity. In the last ten or 20 years we've watched a lot of careers self-destruct by people who were making the same kind of little jokes and off-hand remarks they always made, but suddenly people realized how rude they were. And that's tremendous progress.

Lane: Some would label that political correctness.

Martin: The people who label it political correctness are always talking about ridiculous exaggerations where somebody took insult where no insult was intended. And so when they attack political correctness they find themselves in the peculiar position of defending outright bigotry, which I do not care to defend.

Miss Manners OTM.

Miss Manners is so consistently OTM on every subject that one could replace the expression by OTMM without changing its meaning.

AWESOME.

TRUE.

"on the miss manners?"

you're both fired

What do you look like giving the DOUBLE DEUCE?

Miss Manners first paragraph OTM.

I, too, find Miss Manners OTM and hilarious generally, but "On The Miss Manners" is clearly nonsensical and luda.

My favorite MM moment:

Reader: "Is a demitasse spoon useful?"
MM: "Does a duck swim?!"

Insane!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article881322.ece

But really this has NOTHING to do with political correctness does it?

Also a mention there of the Campaign Against Political Correctness who have a truly terrible website.
http://www.capc.co.uk/

"420" pupils

This is the Sun, the paper currently edited by the same woman who, as editor of News Of The World, encouraged everyone to firebomb paediatricians.

Lady, if you can't finish it, don't start it.

Although I'm surprised they didn't jump on the ACID HOUSE RAVE DRUGS HELL CHILDREN INNOCENCE PAUL BETTS WRITES bandwagon that I've just invented.

ban this sick stunt

Whole story worth it for RAVERS subheadline

People are very confused aren't they?

Posted by: Trespasser

Yet again this seems to be a standard reaction, people are "walking on eggshells" and having to make moves to protect kids identities.

If this country was not run by a load of limp wristed morons, this wouldn't be happening. This just goes to show that there is very little faith in the current justice system that britain has at the moment.

Looking forward to getting my copy of THE POLITICALLY CORRECT SCRAPBOOK

http://www.capc.co.uk/baa.jpg

Come with me to the land of batshit right-wing cartoonists

In the last ten or 20 years we've watched a lot of careers self-destruct by people who were making the same kind of little jokes and off-hand remarks they always made, but suddenly people realized how rude they were

And yet Sir Terry Wogan is still presenting the Eurovision Song Contest

http://www.bbc.co.uk/white/

How many times will "IT'S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD" be uttered during this, do we think? My money's on at least 50.

What, no Love Thy Neighbour or Melting Pot or Curry And Chips or It Ain't Half Hot Mum or Mind Your Language reruns?

That really is POLITICAL CORRECTNESS etc. etc.

Oh, is this why our local radio is banging on about poor white people still being poor and racist?

Snarkiness aside, that season does look like it might have some interesting programmes.

Looks shit to me

racist

Why don't they just get David Attenborough to do it and be done with it

The documentary on the Rivers of Blood speech looks good to me, at least.

The HYS on this topic is the predictable shower of idiots though:
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=4418&edition=1&ttl=20080306123527

Format of Rivers of Blood programme:

I PREDICT:

Gina Yashere
COMEDIAN

"Tiber flowing with blood? What was that all about? Eh, eh? Did he mean Tizer oh yes memories Spangles spacehopper Clout will that do?"

lol 60s, basically!

hugh influx of immigration ,.every high street transformed into bazars

Some sort of Four Weddings And A Funeral/Dollar deal going on here?

"Just see the unfortunate example of the murder of Kate Beagley by a black assassin. The verdict: He tried to steal her car and killed her in the attempt, case closed. Can you just imagine if the guy were white and the killed woman a black girl? God knows the size of the revolt, people demonstration in the streets, human rights groups crying for vengeance, covers and covers in the newspapers with the words 'racial attack' all over. This society has gone bonkers."

..., no, you have, mate

I always sort those by "READERS RECOMMENDED" to cut to the chase:

Your voice is more powerful than ours simply because of your colour. You are allowed to choose to call yourselves brown or black or whatever, we cannot do the same. You can have 'Black Entertainment' programmes on TV and proudly proclaim them. Imagine the outcry if we declared 'White Entertainment'. Remove the chip from your shoulder

jerryatric, BARNSLEY

Recommended by 384 people

This is proberly the worst time in history and the worst place in the civilised world to be a white heterosexual working class male.
We work harder and longer than our Europeon allies, for worse pay ,worse conditions, worse pensions, worse healthcare.
Many of us are fighting wars in thwe middle East whilst their young come over here and get looked after by our welfare state, when our soldiers get injured, they are treated like third class citizens.
Yes, being white sucks!

pete tong

Recommended by 327 people

Oh My God...can you actually say the word "white" in England in 2008 now and not face imprisonment for being racist?

John Smith, Greenford, United Kingdom

Recommended by 311 people

and so on

Pete Tong should stick to uplifting house anthems, IMO.

You are allowed to choose to call yourselves brown or black or whatever, we cannot do the same. You can have 'Black Entertainment' programmes on TV and proudly proclaim them

Whereas 'Brown Entertainment' sounds vaguely pornographic

This is proberly the worst time in history and the worst place in the civilised world to be a white heterosexual working class male.

Wow. Where to start?

On paper, I have never earnt as much as I do now, in reality I have never been so poor.
When I get home from work I am too tired and stressed to go out and enjoy myself, even if I could afford to.
My crime? I met and married the wrong woman, who left me with a load of debts for another man taking my kids who I now have to pay for despite her refusal to let me have access.
If this happened to a woman the would be an outcry, but it happens to men everyday in this hellhole of a country.

[zen_reality]

http://www.st-marys.hull.sch.uk/sites/history/images/Victorianchildlabour.gif

Democracy is supposed to be rule by the majority, but there are so many pressure groups working towards, and getting, special treatment for minority groups that it sometimes feels as though 'normal' people are at a disadvantage.

David Smith, Scunthorpe

Recommended by 97 people

... faces black as coal, the lot o' them (xp)

Of course we're being ignored. The sandal-wearing liberals in charge of this country are more interested in Guardian readers and asylum seekers than in the opinion of the ordinary working man.

DISCRACE!

Derek Bells, London, United Kingdom

Recommended by 76 people

Is that Jim Crace's uncle or something?

For all his faults, I can't imagine Gordon Brown wearing sandals.

No, he said sandal-wearing liberals

You're not even allowed to read the Guardian now unless you own at least six pairs of Jimmy Choos.

Some working class people yesterday...
http://www.ourgreatyarmouth.org.uk/images/uploaded/scaled/scan00061.jpg
Them were the days...

Underage drinking still a problem though.

Nice use of belt + braces

Where is Belt and Braces band?

Jesus, that's been dredged from somewhere dank and disused in the old memory bank

lol, normal people

These people are the most dense, humorless morons ever. Tropic Thunder is -on their side-, taking Hollywood blowhards to task for manipulating and using the disabled for their own profit. But once again it's PC GONE CRAaZzY.

-- burt_stanton, Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Today on Radio 4:

PC RIP?

First of two programmes in which Clive Anderson traces the story of political correctness, and considers our attitudes towards it today.

With Jerry Springer! Stewart Lee!! Camille Paglia!!! Jim Davidson!!!!

not that i'm actually going to listen to it.

In that blurb there are at least three good reasons why I won't be listening to it.

It's the story of political correctness, narrated by people who believe x about porridge and y about vaginal sandiness, featuring sandy vaginal opinions about porridge, and vice versa. Oh, when is this on. So excited.

Southwark NHS has actually banned Christmas trees in case they offend Muslims, that was a doozy of a staff meeting

"in case they offend Muslims" = "can't afford any Christmas trees this year"

"But I bet they can afford Ramadan, errrrr, trees"

No, they just close the canteen for a day. Saves on wages.

Simon Cowell is in the process of removing readings from the Koran from his initial mix of "Any Song Will Do" featuring the X-Factor winner, and ringing up all news networks about it...

Simon Cowell? Simon Coward more like!

Syd Barrett is in the process of renaming his song "Ramadan" to "Christmas", and then back to "Ramadam", in case it offends Muslims.

he's dead

Syd Barrett? Saeed Barrett more like!

Adam Ant ABANDONS plan to re-record Beatle Paul McCartney's RAM album, work it out for yourselves...

Adam Ant? Adam Anti-Western Democracy more like!

ha ha ha...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/content/images/2007/08/06/frankiehowerd_1_61x33.jpg
Oh, please yourselves...

Ex-Adam & the Ants eighties legend Adam Ant, singer, vehemently denies claims of offending other faiths with his projected RAMADAM album.

The family of sixties pop legend Adam Faith were unavailable for comment.

So is Tom O'Connor a tory or not?

He's from Liverpool, so more than likely

Southwark NHS has actually banned Christmas trees in case they offend Muslims, that was a doozy of a staff meeting

Is this true, or am I missing a joke?

They said no Christmas tree this year, because they don't celebrate other faiths' holy days and it would be exclusive. Nobody is allowed to have their own tree in their office unless it is an ornament that will fit on a table. Apparently they were the only PCT in South London that had one last year and they didn't want to etc zzzz

This is a Christian Nation founded on Christian Principles! Is our Head of State not Defender of the Faith?

Will we still be the country of choice and still be Great Britain if we continue to make the changes forced on us by the people from other countries that came to live in Britain because it is the country of choice?

Think about it.

All I have to say is, when will they do something about MY RIGHTS? I celebrate Christmas, but because it isn't celebrated by everyone, we can no longer say Merry Christmas. Now it has to be Season's Greetings. It's not Christmas holiday, it's Winter Break. Isn't it amazing how this winter break ALWAYS occurs over the Christmas holiday? We've gone so far the other way, bent over backwards to not offend anyone, that I am now being offended. But it seems that no one has a problem with that.

This says it all!

This is an editorial written by a British citizen, published in a national newspaper He did quite a job, didn't he? Read on, please

IMMIGRANTS, NOT BRITS, MUST ADAPT.

I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on the 07/07 we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Brits. However, the disgust about the attacks had barely settled when the 'politically correct!' crowd began complaining about the possibility that our patriotism was offending others.

I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to Britain. Our population is almost entirely made up of descendants of immigrants (the Danes, Romans, etc.) However, there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, need to understand. This idea of the Brits being a multicultural community
has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity. As Britain's we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle. This culture has been developed over centuries of struggles, trials, and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.

We speak ENGLISH, not Indian, Urdu, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language!

'Land of Hope & Glory' is our motto. This is not some Christian, right wing, political slogan. We adopted this motto because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.

If the 'Union Jack' flag offends you, or you don't like our QUEEN, then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet. We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care how you did things where you came from.

This is OUR COUNTRY, our land, and our lifestyle. Our laws give every citizen the right to express his opinion and we will allow you every opportunity to do so!

But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about our flag, our lifestyle, our government, or our way of life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great BRITISH freedom, THE RIGHT TO LEAVE.

Since the terrorist attacks on the 07/07 we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Brits.

'Land of Hope & Glory' is our motto.

the original: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/thisisamerica.asp

Oh right, I see

Doesn't work in Britain

(n.b. i didn't edit it, the brit version was sent in all seriousness and gullibility by a colleague of a friend of mine)

I don't think it has been said, but Stuart Lee is OTMFM.

There's a link to a longer stand up bit on the Lee video where he has an amusing dig at Littlejohn.

<3<3<3<3<3 Stewart Lee.

i was front row at that particular steward lee!

wait no not that particular stewart lee!

i just spontaneously went mad

Politically correctly mad?

Examples of humour before Political Correctness Went mad, courtesy of the Campaign Against Political Correctness...

http://www.capc.co.uk/politically_incorrect_nostalgia.htm

Very weak choices in my view. I always assumed we were laughing at Fawlty going bonkers not at the Germans, who are the most sympathetic characters in the sketch.

We will be adding more videos to this website in due course and if you wish to recommend any we would be very glad to hear from you!

Any ideas?

I recommend the people responsible for that site kill themselves

Tom O'Connor Political Update: has never publicly endorsed any political party.

Any ideas?

― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 15:03 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Used to be a maths teacher didn't he? Maybe not a Tory after all?

WARNING - DO NOT VIEW THESE CLIPS UNLESS YOU HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR!

Remember the famous Carling advert with the Brit and his towel beating all the Germans??

I read "all" as "off" but...

That version was only shown late at night on pornographers to the nation C4.

Cafe Hag ("Morning Klaus") at 2:02

Also omg heretofore unknown inspiration for Rowley Birkin QC at 0:30

He's a Chinaman who can't pronounce his R's! Geddit!
Wonderful times...such memories.

Harrow! Henley!

"Now, who could find that offensive?" (CF: Roy North)

But the "stupid irriot" in the Benny Hill Chinaman sketch is always Henry McGee or some other guy who can't understand what Benny is saying

"sirry", that is.

Ah, the humorous inversion: The audience knows it is the Chinaman who is etc...

Who is what?

Cue Ian Wright: "The black bloke on On The Buses was token, inne? But it was the first time we'd ever seen a black bloke on a bus, except for that bloke from Aswad when he was a kid in the Double Deckers yeh theme tune!"

Vince Scriptwriter, aged 96: "What the so-called politically correct anti-racialists always forget was that the Coloured Character always got the upper hand."

Henry McGee was the stupid irishman though. See, it's more complex than you think.

Anyway while you're pondering that perhaps you'd like to donate to Garry Bushell's campaign to erect (geddit!) a statue of Benny in Southampton.
http://www.garry-bushell.co.uk/campaign/campaign.asp?campain_id=1

It seems to have been quite successful...
April 23, 2006: Brian Conley headlined a benefit show with great performances from Neville Staples, John Bardon, Right Said Fred, Rick Wakeman and a host of others. £5,000 was raised towards the statue on the night. My thanks to the Artful Dodger, Mike Osman, Secret Affair, the Cockney Rejects, Mickey Pugh, Seani T, Max Splodge, Hilary O'Neil, the OddBalls, Dexter, Eddie Piller and everyone else who made the night a success.

Henry McGee wasn't Irish, that was the wee baldy guy

Only if they tie it to a tree... (xpost)

Henry McGee was one of many TV celebrities who made a very good living out of appearing considerably less intelligent than he actually was (see also Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen).

Seani T?

As in former 1Xtra DJ Seani T?

Henry McGee wasn't Irish, that was the wee baldy guy

I stand (politically) corrected.

yeah, could have stood alongside Paddy McGoohan, but no he be english.

Went to Wiki, found this: His most enduring role was as the long-suffering 'mummy' of Honey Monster, a large, yellow, furry creature in advertisements for the breakfast cereal Sugar Puffs.

Hmm.....

Actually Henry McGee would have made a decent Number 2...

I always hated Bob Todd, no talent whatsoever

http://www.morecambe.co.uk/bennyhill/bennyanimated.gif

Bob Todd was definitely a Tory.

Bob Todd was definitely a drunky.

That's no excuse

His most enduring role was as the man who went "IT'S BEEF!" in a gravy commercial...

That's more than most of us can say

Also, 99% of gargoyles remains his major claim to remembrance.

Can anyone confirm or debunk the story that all army stretcher-bearing teams now must consist of four people (thus putting more lives at risk), because two women might not necssarily be able to lift a big fat fallen grunt?

No, but it seems unlikely. The definition of political correctness is ever-expanding - my holidays were filled with relatives denouncing impolite or ambitious people as 'not very PC'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/02/bbc_news_and_disabled_audience.html

BBC guy OTM.

BBC blog comments now seem to be centering on "bbc are idiots, blind people can't even turn a computer on let alone go on the internet." I dread to think what the Evening Standard ones are like.

as long as they're not saying "doubleyoodoubleyoodoubleyoodot..."

many sites (especially news) have very long URLs which presenters and editors somewhat justifiably don't feel like reading out in their entirety; however if BBC site producers actually strained themselves to fill out ONE (1x) web form before promoting a site the URL would be very short and the presenters would have no problem saying it grrrrr

for instance this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/business/2008/downturn/default.stm

could so easily be this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/downturn

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5352182/Police-warn-footballer-not-to-run-through-seaside-town-in-underpants.html

Swanage Town and Herston striker Jamie Holland lost the wager that he would be the season's top goal scorer and as a punishment he is supposed to jog into the Dorset resort in his underwear.
When police heard about the stunt however they told the club not to do it in a move that has been condemned as political correctness gone mad.

if he did it the police would only have gone after him with their dogs and batons and bitten/beaten him to death anyway so it's probably just as well.

MPs in expenses fiasco repay money to save their seats, in a move that has been described as "Political madness gone correct"

Ianucci joke: attempts to rebrand mad houses as mental health facilities branded "madness gone politically correct".

"One Step Beyond (if that's alright with you and we have the mandate from the general public)"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8243648.stm

The traditional suet pudding Spotted Dick has been renamed "Spotted Richard" at a council canteen - because customers keep making jokes.

The council said catering staff made the decision after "immature comments" and it was not a policy decision.

But one councillor described the move as "political correctness gone mad".

councillor sounds a complete richardhead tbh

he's standing up for his right to eat a dick.

trying to have his dick and eat it imo

He's one of the Forward Wales group, they're a serious lot.

Bound to come up in relation to the Leeds bin strike. (The only way the council can meet Harriet Harman's targets for equal pay under her guidelines is to cut their pay 30% because they can't afford to pay her equivalent - evening cleaners in offices etc - an extra 50%.)

One week before the most solemn day in the Christian year, the city of Davenport, Iowa removed Good Friday from its municipal calendar, setting off a storm of complaints from Christians and union members whose contracts give them that day off.
Taking a recommendation by the Davenport Civil Rights Commission to change the holiday’s name to something more ecumenical, City Administrator Craig Malin sent a memo to municipal employees announcing Good Friday would officially be known as “Spring Holiday.”

“My phone has been ringing off the hook since Saturday,” said city council alderman Bill Edmond. “People are genuinely upset because this is nothing but political correctness run amok.”

Edmond said the city administrator made the change unilaterally and did not bring it to the council for a vote, a requirement for a change in policy.

From a story on Cleveland.com about an area high school planning to change the name of its mascot from the current "Orientals."

Posted by dave5000
April 27, 2010, 8:50AM
Walking Bear -
I agree. But actually oriental means "from the east," and occidental means "from the west." This is PC run wild.

Said high school, btw, has these logos on its website. Yeah, can't see how this is problematic at all. Also, menus for the site are in Comic Sans, ffs.

http://www.akron-east-high.info/ehs_banner_35.gif
http://www.akron-east-high.info/dragon_8a.gif

KFC has been forced to scrap its halal-only menu in a victory against PC loonies.

Five branches are ditching the controversial trial following a mass boycott by furious customers.

The menu was launched in April to appeal to Britain’s Muslims. All pork products, including bacon and ham, were banned and meat had to be slaughtered under Islamic laws.

But it provoked a huge backlash from non-Muslim customers, who accused the fast food giant of pandering to the political correctness brigade.

They included Alan Philipps, who was told he could not have his favourite Big Daddy burger with bacon because it was against halal rules. KFC bosses at Burton-on-Trent, Staffs, told him he would have to drive to another branch five miles away.

Alan said: “It was like they were saying I couldn’t buy bacon because it might offend people. I have many friends who are black, white and Muslim, but they wouldn’t be forced to eat non- halal meat.”

Others stores which dropped the menu are at Colne and Accrington in Lancs, one in London and one in Manchester. A KFC spokesman said the decision followed “disappointing sales”.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/141492/KFC-scraps-muslim-meals/

glad to know the Magna Carta guarantees the right to eat bacon

also note potential crossover with "I don't care if you're black, white, purple" thread

wait the entire restaurant, and not just an optional menu?

that is kinda wtf, tho then so is actively protesting against it too tbf

kind of get the feeling that article isnt telling "the whole story"

What pork products were even sold at KFC?

I have many friends who are black, white and Muslim

smh at this sentence.

what is wtf about having a few restaurants where Muslim people can eat without worrying about accidentally violating their religious beliefs? A separate menu would be impractical because it would require a whole separate cooking area; ie you'd need two kitchens to have both a halal and a regular menu.

also as noted in the story, British dudes can still get their disgusting bacon chicken KFC sandwiches, they just have to travel five miles

a-ha, five whole miles, thank you very much.

This story actually makes me mad, I think mainly people who think they are entitled to easy access to awful KFC bacon, when they can probably get awful bacon sandwiches at 100 other chains within their neighborhood, while it's probably much harder for Muslims to get access to prepared halal food in Britain

what is wtf about having a few restaurants where Muslim people can eat without worrying about accidentally violating their religious beliefs? A separate menu would be impractical because it would require a whole separate cooking area; ie you'd need two kitchens to have both a halal and a regular menu.

just them being fussy, mate, innit?

This is just a PR stunt to make us think there's actual meat in KFC bacon.

what is wtf about having a few restaurants where Muslim people can eat without worrying about accidentally violating their religious beliefs?

i pretty much agree with this, even if "religious beliefs" are "fucking retarded"

Yeah I like the way this is being spun as a decision by 'PC loonies' whereas I suspect it's just a hard-nosed business decision by KFC bosses trying to tap into a large local Muslim population.

The original halal-only business plan I mean

yeah, most kfc knock-offs are already halal. i suppose this means we will never see the double down in britain though. i think this is what obsese racists are really upset about.

Other chains seem to be able to do this, dunno why it's such a Big Deal that KFC did it. Our local Subway is halal.

I have many friends who are black, white and Muslim, but they wouldn’t be forced to eat non- halal meat.”

Unless part of new policy that wasn't disclosed in this article, I don't think KFC forces you to eat anything.

kind of get the feeling that article isnt telling "the whole story"

― max, Monday, 28 June 2010 15:20 (1 hour ago)

quite.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=178238726846

This is not a racial group, Asians have just opend Dixy chicken up Colne which will no doubt be halal so why do they also want KFC halal this is not right, if I get 1000 followers I will take political action.

VS.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=204045820860&ref=mf&v=info

Join this group if your happy with KFC's decision to provide halal chicken in some towns/cities, their are people who are not happy but the chicken tastes the same.

this could be the new party that's been discussed

Stephen Page It begins here.
Time to retake our country from those that hate it.

their finest lunch-hour

surprised that there was disappointing sales, i remember my friend saying there were queues out the door when the kfc in bethnal green went halal (even tho there's abt 50 other halal fried chicken shops on the same st)

'A woman has been charged with telephone harassment for sending her sister a text message. The text message to Anna Hansen from her sister Jennifer Willhite was meant to be a joke about Hansen's cosmetic surgery, according to Willhite's attorney. "I think people need to get a thicker skin...there's no crime that has been committed, we just think it's ridiculous quite frankly," attorney Shannon Demler told ABC 4 on Thursday. The text said that because of Hansen's new breast implants, she could now apply for a job at the Hooter's restaurant. Hansen was offended by the text and went to Smithfield City Police Department with her complaint. Authorities charged Willhite with Electronic Communications Harassment, a Class B Misdemeanor. A bench trial has been set for July 9' - ABC4.com.

We just keep honing stupidity to something pure and focused and true.

Teacher who taught pupil racist 'rape' rhyme so he could remember lesson is guilty of misconduct

ffs DM commenteers you've gone too far this time.

i must've missed something

'I also have an issue with the GTC claiming the rhyme was somehow sexual because rape is not a sexual act.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012975/Political-correctness-gone-mad-Day-care-centres-forced-dolls-different-races.html

Many critics have taken to blogs and forums to voice their disbelief over the three race dolls proposal.

Saelic posted: 'What about disabled dolls, transgender dolls, deformed or elderly dolls? If they really want to include everything why not these?'

Pollysunshine said: 'Many studies have found in the past that most children always pick up the white doll anyway and rarely notice the different races.'

Paulo84 wrote: 'Yeah that's right, instil political correctness or racism in them before then even get to school. So does that mean only the black kids get to play with black dolls and Asian kids Asian dolls etc?

'Surely that causes problems already.'

Perhaps milk should be served plain, chocolate, creamy etc. as well?
- Shirereeve, Abroad, 09/7/2011 19:58

http://gawker.com/punch-drunk-jonathan-chait-takes-on-the-entire-internet-1682078451

Alex Pareene vs Jonathan Chait

So, here is sad white man Jonathan Chait's essay about the difficulty of being a white man in the second age of "political correctness." In a neat bit of editorial trolling, New York teased the column with following question: "Can a white, liberal man critique a culture of political correctness?"

The answer, as anyone with internet access or a television or the ability to see a newsrack could tell you, is a resounding yes, they can and pretty much constantly do. But the second half of the question, and the real point of the column, was left unwritten: Can a straight, white man do this without having to deal with people criticizing him for doing so? The answer, in 2015, is no, and that is what has Chait's dander up.

being discussed on the "free speech and creepy liberalism" thread

This is like switching channels between two playoff games!

nobody actually uses the phrase "politically correct" these days unless it's someone criticizing the idea.

was it ever used in a positive, proactive sense or was it always this strawman argument against people who are seeking a more sensitive climate?

the latter

(sez a veteran of lol 90s academic identity politics warz)

It was used positively in Utne Reader articles in the late 80s/early 90s.

even devo, whose politics have always skewed to the left, opened one of the songs at their hardcore shows with a warning about how it wasn't politically correct. (but that's jerry casale, tbf; he's angry at everything.)

haha waht for real?! would love to see one of those

xp

first Google search result for "Utne Politically Correct" is ... uh...

http://www.utne.com/mind-and-body/the-politically-correct-kama-sutra.aspx#axzz3Q4PyPnw2

xpost

ha; i have a 1994 utne with a cover story about generation x. i will thumb through and look for references.

PC as i understood it was originally a self-identifying term for ppl on the left b4 the right got a hold of it.

if so, yikes that is crazy. terrible, terrible framing there.

maybe not sincerely tho?

According to one version, political correctness actually began as an in-joke on the left: radical students on American campuses acting out an ironic replay of the Bad Old Days BS (Before the Sixties) when every revolutionary groupuscule had a party line about everything. They would address some glaring examples of sexist or racist behaviour by their fellow students in imitation of the tone of voice of the Red Guards or Cultural Revolution Commissar: 'Not very "politically correct", Comrade!'[11]

[11] http://www.ram-wan.net/restrepo/hall/some%20politically%20incorrect%20pathways.pdf

that makes more sense - it certainly sounds like a parody of marxist party line type stuff

A lot of the time I feel like 'politically correct' is a term people throw out to dismiss something they don't want to admit is actually correct

PC as i understood it was originally a self-identifying term for ppl on the left b4 the right got a hold of it.

If so, that usage was already long-gone 25 years ago.

lol yeah, no-one, before the right got hold of the term, ever used 'politically correct' in a sincere, approving sense. This is why all in-group humour should be forbidden.

It's entirely possible that as a pre-teen Utne Reader, I failed to grasp the sense of humor and context in whatever article it is that I'm remembering.

Looking through Nexis right now at differing contexts and connotations of early mentions.

The Washington Post

April 11, 1979, Wednesday, Final Edition

According to diplomats here, the real threat comes not from the Kurds or Shiites as such, but from the fact that tens of thousands of both groups have migrated to the cities where they form a kind of urban proletariat, vulnerable to communist agitation for social and economic, not religious or ethnic, reasons.

That is why the Baathists stress party orthodoxy as the overriding concern.

"In this country," a government official said, "your own personal religion is up to you but the religion of the party is obligatory."

Ticking off the names of Kurds, Christians and Shiites who have risen to prominence, he noted, "Arab or Kurd, Sunni or [Shiite] it doesn't matter, as long as you are politically correct."

The Washington Post

October 8, 1982, Friday, Final Edition

It won't put Horchow or L.L. Bean out of business, but a new mail-order catalogue might be just the thing for recession-proof Republicans looking for politically correct Christmas gifts.

It's "The Official Republican Collection," a 16-page potpourri of GOP kitsch, from the White House wooden Easter Eggs ($7) to the Oval Office cuff links ($25), from the Boehm porcelain Nancy Reagan Camellia ($650) to the ultimate stocking stuffer: a set of 10 portfolios containing the signatures of every president from George Washington to Ronald Reagan for a mere $20,000.

Just the thing for that NCPAC knickknack shelf.

The Globe and Mail (Canada)

February 5, 1985 Tuesday

Girls just want to have fun, and how. That was the overriding theme of
a collection that seems to have been designed with the town flirt in mind.
After the cheerlessness of politically correct female attire (you know,
like a man), Ungaro appeared to be arguing that real freedom rests in
options, including the option to parade in polka-dot pumps that match
short, body-conscious polka-dot frocks.

Los Angeles Times

November 20, 1985, Wednesday, Home Edition

BIG BROTHER ON CAMPUS

The trouble with both Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia is that they are based on the assumption that there is one, and only one, politically correct way to think. Accuracy in Academia says that there are 10,000 Marxists teaching on American college campuses and that students should be protected from their mistaken views. How the organization arrived at that number is unclear, but it is clear that college students are capable of critical thought. Education is not indoctrination.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/reaction-to-note-political-correctness-gone-mad-lowry-1.2080477

Per Nexis, this is the earliest use of the thread title

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/05/us/suit-depicts-fight-on-mit-faculty.html

Christina Hoff Sommers, a professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester and a friend of Professor Wolff, said the battle within M.I.T.'s literature department "is a case of political correctness gone mad." Professor Sommers said Professor Wolff considered herself a "progressive feminist" but one who still believed in applying traditional scholarly standards in her academic work.

A number of the 10 professors in the department are "radical feminists, gay theorists or Marxists, very dogmatic and intolerant," Professor Sommers said. "Anyone who dares to oppose them gets labeled as part of the white, hetero, patriarchal hegemony." Broadening One's Education

excellent work, hows life, I was politically active during this time frame but did not have a clear memory of all the history. My hazy recollection that it began as an in-joke, then the right got ahold of it.

Girls just want to have fun, and how. That was the overriding theme of
a collection that seems to have been designed with the town flirt in mind.
After the cheerlessness of politically correct female attire (you know,
like a man), Ungaro appeared to be arguing that real freedom rests in
options, including the option to parade in polka-dot pumps that match
short, body-conscious polka-dot frocks.

Stuff like this being the default register for newspaper writing, of course, is why we have "political correctness" in the first place. But of course lots of people are nostalgic for the days when everyone understood that a woman must be "cheerless" and in fact barely a woman at all if her dress didn't cling to her body and show her knees.

Christina Hoff Sommers, a professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester and a friend of Professor Wolff, said the battle within M.I.T.'s literature department "is a case of political correctness gone mad."

I thought this name rang a bell and OH MY GOD this is Based Mom. This is the crazy anti-feminist lady providing cover for all the gamergate fuckheads online.

http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/11/29/the-five-creepiest-gamergate-fan-art-tributes-to-christina-hoff-sommers-aka-based-mom-with-bonus-annoying-gif/

http://www.aei.org/author/christina-hoff-sommers/

And what a slate she has published.

haha! good catch!

oh my god.

? yeah she's v much a known quantity in the intra- and anti-feminist battles of the 90s. it was not a surprise at all to see her weasel her way into the antifeminist shitshow dujour, that's p much her job

not to pull old-time rank you or anything

trashing "Free to Be You and Me"! this aggression shall not stand

What literature department ought not have gay theorists and Marxists? If you want to be a conservative warrior, go major in business. Please, these people make their living from having an enemy! Without Marxists and feminists, they wouldn't get published.

I read that "gay theorists and Marxists" and thought, "gee, sounds like fun"...too many liberal arts classes have profs who begin classes by saying, "...and I'm not a Marxist!"

Oh I figured she'd been around forever, it's just that her appearance is some sorta antimatter intersectionality of online retrograde fuckheaded horribleness.

lol yeah, no-one, before the right got hold of the term, ever used 'politically correct' in a sincere, approving sense. This is why all in-group humour should be forbidden.

― sanctimonious uncontextualized linkdumps as an enlightmenment (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, January 28, 2015 6:06 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

spoken like a true stalinist!

FWIW i think the term "left-correct" was around within the left at least as long as "politically correct." again, it has an ironic charge, as in, "well, this idea may not be 'left-correct' (hewing the party line) but it's a good idea."

ok I did a search in the NYT from 1851.

1st mention of the term "politically correct" is from 1956, specifically from "Text of Speech on Stalin by Khrushchev as Released by the State Department." basically it's a key document of de-Stalinization from the USSR, with Kruschchev critiquing the "cult of personality" that had developed around Stalin. a fascinating read, actually.

but this lends credence to the idea that the term, in its American sense, was a reference to, and likely a parodying of, habits of the Old Left.

btw until 1990 the other uses of the term are all from the Cold War/Eastern Bloc context.

if the university social justice club ever gets stalin-like power i reserve the right to get worried

correction

that was the 1st mention of the phrase "political correctness"

the phrase 'politically correct" appears in a few stray places starting in the 1860s, but it's fairly random. it starts appearing more frequently in the mid-1950s, again, in the context of discussions of Russia and the Eastern Bloc countries.

what's the 1860 context?

stalin.gif

use of both terms EXPLODES in the 1990s btw, where it is suddenly being applied much more frequently to the American context..

"i need stalinism bc it triggers me when the kulaks get to keep their grain seed."

what's the 1860 context?

― Mordy, Friday, February 6, 2015 3:31 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually, it's 1875.

headline: "FROM THE PACIFIC COAST.: SAN FRANCISCO INTERESTS, A SPECIALLY FAVORABLE SEASON--THE FEELING AGAINST CAPT. WADDELL AND THE PACIFIC MAIL DIRECTORY--STEINBERGER'S POPULARITY AMONG HIS HEATHEN SUBJECTS."

don't have time ATM to read entire article sorry, but here's the terrific opening lines:

After five weeks' rain, with scarcely one clear day, we have once more our glorious Winter weather, bright, sunny, clear, and an atmosphere just bracing enough to require a thin Fall overcoat, and that not needed if you are walking. Already the hill-sides are clothed in emerald hues, and the grateful bovine nippeth the tender grass and the festive dairyman sees signs of a fall in butter.

you make a lot of trigger jokes mordy what's up with that

the grateful bovine nippeth the tender grass and the festive dairyman sees signs of a fall in butter

journalism standards really have declined, I gotta say

xxp amateurist what's the line w/ the "pc" quote?

don't worry about it shakes

mordy, i'd have to read through the whole thing to find out! it's not text-searchable.

the grateful bovine nippeth the tender grass and the festive dairyman sees signs of a fall in butter

journalism standards really have declined, I gotta say

― Οὖτις, Friday, February 6, 2015 4:35 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. I can't imagine any current reporting being mistaken for Jethro Tull lyrics.

apparently i have access; i found it:

http://i57.tinypic.com/15pmvpe.png

also this gem:

http://i60.tinypic.com/2eg8kls.png

emoluments, he don't got any any

"He continued to destroy ships long after he was aware that the war was over. 'Like a boss,' our correspondent added."

lol

"Once again, it's the tail wagging the dog."

Waddell was obv a bad loser.

So the idea is that if someone is derisively called "politically correct" presumably because they are unnecessarily touchy about things. This displays a lack of self-awareness because if you are upset about someone being PC then you are being unnecessarily touchy imo.

like ta shoot someone out of a Western canon, right into a busy intersectionality

lol Morbs ^

revive because… oh no

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/aug/24/cancel-me-john-cleese-to-present-channel-4-show-on-woke-thought