What is the worst case of Political Correctness you have come across?

py2006

Political correctness has to be one of the most annoying modern phenomena.

It seems you have to think about every word you say before you say it in case you offend your grannies dog.

In a recent conversation with this self righteous individual I was stopped in my tracks mid sentence when I said that "generally women are better around children then men are". This person shouted "Oh you can't say that". Not so much that they thought it sexist but that I had made a generalisation.

I know we can't always generalise but in certain circumstances we can. Surely my statement wasn't too much of a generalisation?

Anyway, my point is the the PC Police today are so irritating you can't say anything or do anything!!

What is the worst case of political correctness you have come across?

AnonoBoy

Moms be trippin' all the time but we ain't allowed say it no more.

Chuck Stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyu2jAD6sdo

carefulnow100

Inie Minie Minie Mo





Wont somebody think of the kids

saa

Hey your kids having a Nativity play... you can't take any pictures or god forbid record it that would be just plain weird... and creepy.

Duggy747

Militant Atheists and Christmas, stop making the rest of us look like joyless plebs.

Alopex

Set a pakistani on fire and apparently that makes me a racist. Political correctness gone mad.

NoHornJan

When they took the "Golliwogs" off of the marmalade jars
and the "Black and White Minstrels" off the Lyons tea adds.

joe stodge

Administrators at a California high school sent five students home after they refused to remove their American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican Day of Independence. That’s right, kids, you can’t wear your country’s flag in your country, lest it offend someone celebrating the holiday of a different country. The story began when Assistant Principal, Miguel Rodriguez, asked two of the five teens to remove their American flag bandanas. The boys complied, but were still taken to the principal’s office for a chat. One of the boys told NBC “They said we could wear it on any other day, but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday, so we were not allowed to wear it.” They are right. It might be a little insensitive to wear an American flag shirt on Cinco De Mayo– if we were in MEXICO.
And it is an important holiday—IN MEXICO. School District Superintendent Wesley Smith later described the incident as “extremely unfortunate” and said the matter is still under investigation.

joe stodge

NoHornJan wrote: »

When they took the "Golliwogs" off of the marmalade jars
and the "Black and White Minstrels" off the Lyons tea adds.

also gollibars icecreams.

kfallon

joe stodge wrote: »

also gollibars icecreams.

Mmmmmmm those damn tasty politically incorrect ice creams

7sr2z3fely84g5

You never see an episode of benny hill on tv anymore-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCYpk0ivqjo

pragmatic1

Yeah in some cases it can be fairly annoying, but its improved the lives of many people.

Jesus Wept

py2006 wrote: »

Political correctness has to be one of the most annoying modern phenomena.

It seems you have to think about every word you say before you say it in case you offend your grannies dog.

In a recent conversation with this self righteous individual I was stopped in my tracks mid sentence when I said that "generally women are better around children then men are". This person shouted "Oh you can't say that". Not so much that they thought it sexist but that I had made a generalisation.

I know we can't always generalise but in certain circumstances we can. Surely my statement wasn't too much of a generalisation?

Anyway, my point is the the PC Police today are so irritating you can't say anything or do anything!!

What is the worst case of political correctness you have come across?

I'm not sure but it would actually be something that was politically incorrect...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGAOCVwLrXo

orourkeda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEeQEYuvvCA

annascott

joe stodge wrote: »

Administrators at a California high school sent five students home after they refused to remove their American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican Day of Independence. That’s right, kids, you can’t wear your country’s flag in your country, lest it offend someone celebrating the holiday of a different country. The story began when Assistant Principal, Miguel Rodriguez, asked two of the five teens to remove their American flag bandanas. The boys complied, but were still taken to the principal’s office for a chat. One of the boys told NBC “They said we could wear it on any other day, but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday, so we were not allowed to wear it.” They are right. It might be a little insensitive to wear an American flag shirt on Cinco De Mayo– if we were in MEXICO.
And it is an important holiday—IN MEXICO. School District Superintendent Wesley Smith later described the incident as “extremely unfortunate” and said the matter is still under investigation.

Clue is in the name. Enough said.

Forest Master

When someone told me I shouldn't say "disabled" - the PC term is 'differently abled'.

7sr2z3fely84g5

you can't say blackboard anymore,instead call it a chalkboard *if any schools still have them boards?.

Dudess

I seldom experience this "tyranny" you're talking about OP. It's rare that you'd encounter a crazily PC nut - and I mean actual PC.

Bet you can say "blackboard".

I remember a nativity display was removed from a Dublin hospital all right, which was just ludicrous IMO.

annascott

I was asked to change a report so that instead of 'disabled people' it said 'people with disabilities'. I didn't mind and promptly made the changes. However, a die hard PC fundamentalist then asked that it be changed to 'differently abled' I laughed and refused and went ahead with the publication. To me, whenever I hear 'differently abled' I picture a guy with wings...

Daemos

As I posted in R&R, I recently watched a TV show that had this warning before it:

"The following show deals with themes of a paranormal nature and should be intended as entertainment only"

Dudess

Daemos wrote: »

As I posted in R&R, I rently watched a TV show that had this warning before it:

"The following show deals with themes of a paranormal nature and should be intended as entertainment only"

How is that PC?

Political correctness is extreme tiptoe-ing so that you won't offend a particular group.

annascott

Nancy Attractive Plank wrote: »

you can't say blackboard anymore,instead call it a chalkboard *if any schools still have them boards?.

Are we allowed to mention the interactive WHITE board?

Sticky_Fingers

Forest Master wrote: »

When someone told me I shouldn't say "disabled" - the PC term is 'differently abled'.

Unless the got am arm growing out of their back our some other crazy Island of Dr Moreau sh!t going on then they are not "differently abled".

I hope you called this person a retard.

Ruu_Old

The whole Christmas/Happy holiday thing in America. How dare you wish me well! :mad:

newmug

Dudess wrote: »

How is that PC?

I think the connection is that its equally ridiculous. The PC brigade cant see the wood from the trees sometimes.

My example is when on the 12th July last, I saw an orange parade led by a banner which read "Republicanism = cultural apartheid". Facepalm moment!

7sr2z3fely84g5

Yorkie-its not for girls.

Fozzydog3

this post made me absolutely cringe

Dudess

newmug wrote: »

My example is when on the 12th July last, I saw an orange parade led by a banner which read "Republicanism = cultural apartheid". Facepalm moment!

Again, what's PC about it? Inflammatory perhaps, but who is it at pains to not offend? If anything it's doing the opposite.

The phrase is constantly, constantly misused.

Daemos

Dudess wrote: »

How is that PC?

Political correctness is extreme tiptoe-ing so that you won't offend a particular group.

Okay, maybe not PC, maybe oversensitivity? Overprotection? Oversonething anyway, completely bizarre

si_guru

Sticky_Fingers wrote: »

Unless the got am arm growing out of their back our some other crazy Island of Dr Moreau sh!t going on then they are not "differently abled".

I hope you called this person a retard.

tut tut - you mean differently brained.

bleg

Duggy747 wrote: »

Militant Atheists and Christmas, stop making the rest of us look like joyless plebs.

Don't you mean winter fest?

Dudess

Daemos wrote: »

Okay, maybe not PC, maybe oversensitivity? Overprotection? Oversonething anyway, completely bizarre

Not having a go at you and I know what you're saying, but to me it seems the intention was to advise people "Don't try this at home" which is probably an editorial policy to prevent the production company/TV station being held liable if any bad sh1t went down if someone carried out a paranormal experiment inspired by the show.

Teddy_Picker

I don't know if "political correctness" has actually gone mad, but the number of people talking about how political correctness has gone mad and threads started on same would give that impression.

I really, really doubt if anyone has ever been ticked off for calling it a 'blackboard' and I've certainly never heard of a 'person-hole' cover in the street.

I just think a lot of the time the Daily Wail and other rags pick up on a press release from some town council in Skegness, and completely twist it to make it look like the Muslamics are going to bulldoze Buckingham Palace and replace it with a giant gold mosque by 2013. :rolleyes: There's no substance to any of those bullsh!t stories, relax!

Caraville

This:

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

Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a diagnosis described by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as an ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior toward authority figures which goes beyond the bounds of normal childhood behavior. People who have it may appear very stubborn and angry.

Why the hell must we put a label on someone who is just basically an asshole?


:mad::mad::mad:

krudler

Duggy747 wrote: »

Militant Atheists and Christmas, stop making the rest of us look like joyless plebs.

I dont know a single atheist who doesnt celebrate christmas in some form, and before the "ah but its about religion!" brigade arrive, no, it isnt for everyone. Its a time of year when people get together with families and eat food and drink and enjoy their company/fight like rabid dogs (delete where applicable), thats it.

Dudess

Teddy_Picker wrote: »

I don't know if "political correctness" has actually gone mad, but the number of people talking about how political correctness has gone mad and threads started on same would give that impression.

I really, really doubt if anyone has ever been ticked off for calling it a 'blackboard' and I've certainly never heard of a 'person-hole' cover in the street.

I just think a lot of the time the Daily Wail and other rags pick up on a press release from some town council in Skegness, and completely twist it to make it look like the Muslamics are going to bulldoze Buckingham Palace and replace it with a giant gold mosque by 2013. :rolleyes: There's no substance to any of those bullsh!t stories, relax!

A-fucking-men... Not denying there are PC fetishists, but they're rare, and not concentrated enough to constitute a "brigade". And also, what's deemed politically correct a lot of the time is just basic tolerance of difference which doesn't harm anyone.

ToddyDoody

A Cork man disciplined by his boss for saying 'well boy' to a non-national at work

krudler

Caraville wrote: »

This:

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



Why the hell must we put a label on someone who is just basically an asshole?


:mad::mad::mad:

everyone has a disorder now, you cant just be a dick anymore

Daemos

Dudess wrote: »

Not having a go at you and I know what you're saying, but to me it seems the intention was to advise people "Don't try this at home" which is probably an editorial policy to prevent the production company/TV station being held liable if any bad sh1t went down if someone carried out a paranormal experiment inspired by the show.

No offence taken at all, maybe I wasn't being clear. The show in question was an episode of A Town Called Eureka, where basically madcap science solves madcap problems. This one episode, which happened to deal with the paranormal, had the warning despite the fact that the show is always as offensive as a hamster and the 'ghosts' are actually people caught in another dimension shaking the skin of the world (like I said, madcap science). So unless people would me trying THAT at home I really can't see why the warning was needed at all.

Sorry for the long reply, I do most of my rambling at this time of night

krudler

Teddy_Picker wrote: »

I don't know if "political correctness" has actually gone mad, but the number of people talking about how political correctness has gone mad and threads started on same would give that impression.

I really, really doubt if anyone has ever been ticked off for calling it a 'blackboard' and I've certainly never heard of a 'person-hole' cover in the street.

I just think a lot of the time the Daily Wail and other rags pick up on a press release from some town council in Skegness, and completely twist it to make it look like the Muslamics are going to bulldoze Buckingham Palace and replace it with a giant gold mosque by 2013. :rolleyes: There's no substance to any of those bullsh!t stories, relax!

Ara dem Muslimmms are trying to take Crismis off us Joe!

Dudess

ToddyDoody wrote: »

A Cork man disciplined by his boss for saying 'well boy' to a non-national at work

I don't believe you - only Waterford people say "Well boy"... :pac:

krudler wrote: »

everyone has a disorder now, you cant just be a dick anymore

Some of these "disorders" seem like a joke all right (why are they created though? Money I assume?) but then you've got geniuses using the above as currency to dismiss actual behavioural/learning difficulties, like autism, ADHD and dyslexia.

RichieC

I cant even attend my KKK meetings anymore without a bunch of liberal hippys shouting us down.... PC gone mad.

Ireland needs a council for conservative christians to keep tabs on these "social justice" wanting arse planks.

RichieC

ToddyDoody wrote: »

A Cork man disciplined by his boss for saying 'well boy' to a non-national at work

cite or gtfo.

newmug

Dudess wrote: »

Again, what's PC about it? Inflammatory perhaps, but who is it at pains to not offend? If anything it's doing the opposite.

The phrase is constantly, constantly misused.

Its PC because what they meant was "IRA = sectarian bigots". But they just had to put it in a PC way.

There were so many levels of irony to that scene, it was surreal!

krudler

RichieC wrote: »

cite or gtfo.

a friend of a friend of my cousins sister told me the same, its totally true

RichieC

newmug wrote: »

Its PC because what they meant was "IRA = sectarian bigots". But they just had to put it in a PC way.

There were so many levels of irony to that scene, it was surreal!

so the orange order are being "PC" by using less inflammatory language on their banners? call me crazy but that sounds like a good thing...

AhSureTisGrand

newmug wrote: »

Its PC because what they meant was "IRA = sectarian bigots". But they just had to put it in a PC way.

Well if the Orange Order accused anybody of being a sectarian bigot it would just look silly

newmug

RichieC wrote: »

so the orange order are being "PC" by using less inflammatory language on their banners? call me crazy but that sounds like a good thing...

Nah man, you dont get it. PC is when you try NOT to offend someone. PC gone mad is when you are taking it to such an extreme that you have the opposite effect! Differently abled? The orange order insulting people but with nice, soft, PC language? Thats PC gone mad!

fro9etb8j5qsl2

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329897/Early-Learning-Centre-toy-pig-banned-farm-set-avoid-offending-Muslims.html absolutely ridiculous!! What i can't understand is that when you go to Muslim countries, you are expected to abide by their cultural rules and customs but when people from those countries go elsewhere, they expect people to bend over backwards to accommodate them....

RichieC

newmug wrote: »

Nah man, you dont get it. PC is when you try NOT to offend someone. PC gone mad is when you are taking it to such an extreme that you have the opposite effect! Differently abled? The orange order insulting people but with nice, soft, PC language? Thats PC gone mad!

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