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Political Correctness has it gone to far

  • 18-04-2006 6:47pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭


    From what I have seen recently here and in general in society is people and this PC attitude, basically a Facist attitude whereby the Majority say wrong is right.

    If we express an opinion about immigration which is unchecked and out of control we are racist.

    If we express an opinion about a persons sexual orientation we are homophobes.

    If we express an opinion about Islam we are shot down, why are we so scared of them, I'm not.


    It seems that our moral standards in society have dropped to an all time low and subtley we are becoming more and more facist, as freedom of speech is no longer slowly but sure as it was in Nazi Germany, Italy and Spain etc etc.

    In this country we are getting rightly buggered left right and centre and the unfortunate upsurge of Far Right Nationalist Parties will slowly come to the fore as it is in the UK....

    Boards itself is not a democracy in any form or manner but it seems anyone with an opinion about any of the above is branded, if this was the real world the people branding would be in court for slander on a daily basis....


    So your views weither for or against


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    This again!?
    Yore gay.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    Thanks so are you :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,437 ✭✭✭Crucifix


    To be honest, I think people over react a bit about the PC thing. Yeah, it happens, but it's not the rampant censorship it's often made out to be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,064 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    woody wrote:
    if this was the real world the people branding would be in court for slander on a daily basis
    Its not the real world though is it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,064 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    Crucifix wrote:
    I think people over react a bit about the PC
    Its not as fashionable as it used to be. And its all the Muslims' faults. And Lithunanians' and Nigerians'. And Americans'. Koreans'. Israelis'. Chinese'.

    Oh yeah, and the travellers.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    Don't even start me about the pikeys I am gone off on one enough already...:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭Dirk Gently


    woody wrote:
    From what I have seen recently here and in general in society is people and this PC attitude, basically a Facist attitude whereby the Majority say wrong is right.

    If we express an opinion about immigration which is unchecked and out of control we are racist.

    If we express an opinion about a persons sexual orientation we are homophobes.

    If we express an opinion about Islam we are shot down, why are we so scared of them, I'm not.


    It seems that our moral standards in society have dropped to an all time low and subtley we are becoming more and more facist, as freedom of speech is no longer slowly but sure as it was in Nazi Germany, Italy and Spain etc etc.

    In this country we are getting rightly buggered left right and centre and the unfortunate upsurge of Far Right Nationalist Parties will slowly come to the fore as it is in the UK....

    Boards itself is not a democracy in any form or manner but it seems anyone with an opinion about any of the above is branded, if this was the real world the people branding would be in court for slander on a daily basis....


    So your views weither for or against

    Did I just read that correctly, are you the same bloke who was giving out about the eastern European and African scum on your road? Are you the same bloke who stood on his lawn with a fire arm as a show of strength against your inferior minority neighbors?

    Are you calling us fascist?
    What the ****.

    You are racist scum and it is you and people like you who will the first to join a far right fascist party in this country.
    Don’t try to dress it up as been overly PC. Don’t pretend you have not got extreme views.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,800 ✭✭✭county


    Gurgle wrote:
    Its not as fashionable as it used to be. And its all the Muslims' faults. And Lithunanians' and Nigerians'. And Americans'. Koreans'. Israelis'. Chinese'.

    Oh yeah, and the travellers.

    dont forget the english


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Sure, we're only taking after the US, the front soldiers of political correctness.


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    woody wrote:
    So your views weither for or against

    I always have to laugh at the counter PC arguments. Next thing you'll get that old one about 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' being banned (how many times is that story churned out?) and that it's the end of civilization as we know it. As if it were some essential piece of English literature anyway. Then there will be some reference to Nazism (I see you got it in the very first post), the mysterious 'PC Brigade', the masked army that hover around cyberspace. And finally you have to get at least one post that equates this 'PC Brigade' with 'pinkos'.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    clown bag wrote:
    Did I just read that correctly, are you the same bloke who was giving out about the eastern European and African scum on your road? Are you the same bloke who stood on his lawn with a fire arm as a show of strength against your inferior minority neighbors?

    Are you calling us fascist?
    What the ****.

    You are racist scum and it is you and people like you who will the first to join a far right fascist party in this country.
    Don’t try to dress it up as been overly PC. Don’t pretend you have not got extreme views.


    I am racist want me to quote you on that now PROVE IT, I am a concerned tax payer and served my country what have you done....

    Let me see mmmmmmmm most likely Nada.... My views are borne from frustration as a citizen seeing my country rode and as for far right parties and joining get real, I have more chance of becoming the first protestant/jewish Anglo-Irish Pope


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    BTW quick question when did Nigeria join the EU :D

    Oh and don't forgot the myserious direct flight from Lagos to Dublin ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,679 ✭✭✭Chong


    Question Woody where are you from?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    Outer Space


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,064 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    woody wrote:
    BTW quick question when did Nigeria join the EU :D:confused:
    Are you referring to something on this thread?
    woody wrote:
    Oh and don't forgot the myserious direct flight from Lagos to Dublin ;)
    If you're referring to the 'Seek asylum in the first country you reach' arguement, you've missed the whole point.
    Talk to a Nigerian.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    Gurgle wrote:
    woody wrote:
    BTW quick question when did Nigeria join the EU :D:confused:
    Are you referring to something on this thread?

    If you're referring to the 'Seek asylum in the first country you reach' arguement, you've missed the whole point.
    Talk to a Nigerian.

    I have they live next door and in my church they admit holland or germany are usually first ports of call.... Hence Procedure to stay there but our Inviting social welfare system seems to draw everyone


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,679 ✭✭✭Chong


    Ok further question for Woody. You say in your profile that you are from Dundalk but you have claimed also that sig is a picture of you. Now that pic is hardly a pic of Ireland so where are you originally from.


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    woody wrote:
    I have they live next door

    Ah, the neighbours. A variation on the 'in fact some of my best friends' chestnut which reflects the increased fixation with property in this country. Neat.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    Willem D wrote:
    Ok further question for Woody. You say in your profile that you are from Dundalk but you have claimed also that sig is a picture of you. Now that pic is hardly a pic of Ireland so where are you originally from.

    Dundalk Seriously my family are Irish/northern Irish of mixed religion my Uncle is naturalised Israeli...Hence my affinity with Israel

    And that is a pic from a military website to be precise


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    Ah, the neighbours. A variation on the 'in fact some of my best friends' chestnut which reflects the increased fixation with property in this country. Neat.

    They are far from my best friends, have just reported them for selling cars illegally from the house :D


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    woody wrote:
    Dundalk Seriously my family are Irish/northern Irish of mixed religion my Uncle is naturalised Israeli...Hence my affinity with Israel

    Hey, I hear you when you say Israel. I'm always defending Israel. Cyberspace is full of people pitying those poor Palestinians who vote in terrorists, launch attacks on civilians etc. etc.

    But I can also respect other people, their race, sexual orientation, or religion, and condemn what the Palestinians have done.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,679 ✭✭✭Chong


    U said it was you in a previous thread.


  • Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,773 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    Good God.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Good God.

    As a pantheist...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    I did I was joking, I am to ugly to be photographed :D

    Someone asked if that was me now I remember, I am a cross between sloth from the goonies meets boy george on a bad hair day


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭Dirk Gently


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    ding dang do

    Last edited by woody : Today at 12:36.






    Today, 06:31
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    Seapoint
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    Woody, your generalisation could be mistaken for racism there..... might be nicer if you tone it down a little.




    “I am racist want me to quote you on that now PROVE IT”

    I see you have since edited your post where you went on a racist rant last night.
    You have replaced your racist comments and gun waving antics with “ding dand do”
    Perhaps if seapoint or anyone else who was around last nite could confirm that I have good reason to call you a racist.

    I don’t consider myself overly pc and I have no problem with anyone expressing the views you mentioned in your revisionist post in this thread above. The fact that you call anti-racist people fascist and claim because of the pc crowd the country is turning into Nazi Germany is madness in the extreme. Surely the opposite is true. The danger of turning into a Nazi Germany type country comes from people like you. Why do you feel the need to edit your posts and then try to present a more moderate topic to discuss with which to get people to sympathise with you.

    By all means start a debate on immigration but don’t try to pretend that the pc crowd is a danger to democracy and freedom of speech. You are the danger with your extreme hate views.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    And your point is ?????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,679 ✭✭✭Chong


    Also Woody has deep hatred for Muslims as far as I remember. His posts were despicable when the Islam Forum was put forward for creation.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    Also your point is ??? I despise the instituion of Islam not the people as I do the institution of Roman Catholicism.... I have a right to an opinion or is that not allowed :cool:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,679 ✭✭✭Chong


    Ya but you went over the top as far as I remember.

    Your basically proposing that boards allows its posters to insult homosexuals, people of other religions along with , the travelling community and immigrants.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭Dirk Gently


    My point is you edited your recent post and then asked me to prove that you’re a racist.
    Im just explaining to anyone reading this that I have good reason to call you racist.
    Why did you feel the need to delete your rant. Possibly to dupe people into believing that when someone dis agrees with your now revised more moderate view they are a P C Fascist.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    Willem D wrote:
    Ya but you went over the top as far as I remember.

    Your basically proposing that boards allows its posters to insult homosexuals, people of other religions along with , the travelling community and immigrants.

    Your words not mine and you are very very far from the truth, simple as this I will not conform with todays immoral norms...

    Clown bag again your point is what ??? I removed it as I thought it best as accomodation twas not the right place to post....

    If you would like me to report you for accusing me of being a racist I will because I am far from it and more than you can imagine but your small mind most likely cannot see beyond your screen.....

    And on that I will not explain maybe if you goto the next boards beers I will explain ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    bring back the p/c of the comedy shows of the 1980'a, are you being served etc. they were rude and crude but everyone knew it was just a piss take. i miss them shows


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    woody wrote:
    Your words not mine and you are very very far from the truth, simple as this I will not conform with todays immoral norms...
    Which are?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    Which are?

    Which are not for here thank you very much......

    Right I am off for tea and buns anyone want something I have a large variety of scones ;)


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    woody wrote:
    Which are not for here thank you very much......

    Right I am off for tea and buns anyone want something I have a large variety of scones ;)
    Heh, somebody has views he doesn't want to get around?


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