Red Alert wrote: » Yet another reason to like the Poles, they're not PC either... I mean come on, the kids of today will end up so sensitive they can't either give or take an insult in jest.
Deleted User wrote: » what are yer views on the following??? i dont know how it is in other Irish towns/cities but in Dundalk town centre we are asolutely PLAGUED by roma beggars. on the main street in town there are anywhere from 5 - 8 begging full-time at ATM's, the post office and various shops. they have look-outs at both ends of the street ( absolutely pointless as the guards dont give a toss ) who collect money from them every hour or so. these people are not homeless- they were handed houses and apartments in the town centre when they arrived in the country-and they all recieve social welfare so i for one will NEVER give them a penny as long as i breath. i really think the guards need to do more to stop it and i think social welfare should get involved also i.e. cut the benefits of anyone caught begging. if the above views make me a racist in the eyes of PC ireland then SO BE IT.:D
Dudess wrote: » The question's rather vague: how can one tell whether "Ireland" has become too PC? In what situations? In spoken form or written form? What is too PC? There are some people who are PC, there are others who aren't.
Case Sensitive wrote: » Aaargh, But for FF sake, I'd rather have that then the approval of the thought police.
CDfm wrote: » should the question be limited to Dundalk then
brianthebard wrote: » No but people from Dundalk should be confined to the immediate area. I don't care if that's non-PC dammit!
brianthebard wrote: » Once you've set foot in Dundalk you can never get rid of the shame, quarantine them all I say. Lord of the flies sort of thing will form from it, and then the town will be left to the romas whoever wants it the most.
Kold wrote: » How is it too PC? The fact that people frown on you for being racist? I don't know what the problem is here, none of your civil liberties are being taken away. I think anyone with a brain will be able to tell the difference between labelling one person and labelling a whole race.
seahorse wrote: » I think in fairness there is a general air of near-hysterical PC attitudes pervading the place, and too much of anything is a bad thing. I read a letter posted to the letters page in a newspaper recently by a man somewhere down the country (it may have been Waterford) who'd been laid off along with the rest of the workforce; needless to say they were all heartbroken. They accepted it however, assuming that the factory was about to go under and that their employers had had no other choice. Two weeks later, lo and behold, their jobs were filled by economic migrants working for the minimum wage. Naturally the Irish workers were outraged; but we are living in the type of cultural climate where it is not considered politically correct for those men and women to express their anger and disappointment lest someone may be offended! Their anger wasn’t even directed at the foreign workers, it was directed at their employers and at the unfairness of the situation as a whole, but the PC mindset says that it is unacceptable to express annoyance, however justified, where there are people with any type of difference involved. Now personally, I'd have one word for that type of thinking - bollocks.
brianthebard wrote: » Thats bull and has nothing to do with being PC or not. People can criticise the employer for laying off the staff without criticising the new employees. The only one making it about the foreign workers is you.
CDfm wrote: » Well if the new employees have stolen your jobs they are fair game. Romantic Irelands dead and gone its with O'Leary in the grave. If it is true whats wrong with a bit of boycotting,eh?
seahorse wrote: » I think in fairness there is a general air of near-hysterical PC attitudes pervading the place, and too much of anything is a bad thing. I read a letter posted to the letters page in a newspaper recently by a man somewhere down the country (it may have been Waterford) who'd been laid off along with the rest of the workforce; needless to say they were all heartbroken. They accepted it however, assuming that the factory was about to go under and that their employers had had no other choice. Two weeks later, lo and behold, their jobs were filled by economic migrants working for the minimum wage. Naturally the Irish workers were outraged; but we are living in the type of cultural climate where it is not considered politically correct for those men and women to express their anger and disappointment lest someone may be offended!
Case Sensitive wrote: » Square Igloo, Do you mean "No, Ireland has not gone too PC, its still possible to make dodgy jokes for a laugh" Or do you mean "No, Ireland is not PC enough just yet. Lets take some pointers from the Christian Right buffoons?"
