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

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  • #32
    bleg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭bleg


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    Militant Atheists and Christmas, stop making the rest of us look like joyless plebs.

    Don't you mean winter fest?


  • #33
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    Teddy_Picker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭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!


  • #35
    Caraville
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭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:


  • #36
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #37
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #38
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


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


  • #39
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #40
    Daemos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭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


  • #41
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭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!


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  • #42
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #43
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭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.


  • #44
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


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

    cite or gtfo.


  • #45
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭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!


  • #46
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    RichieC wrote: »
    cite or gtfo.

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


  • #47
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭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...


  • #48
    AhSureTisGrand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭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


  • #49
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭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!


  • #50
    fro9etb8j5qsl2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭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....


  • #51
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭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!

    Touché...


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  • #52
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Scarlet Crooked Lanyard wrote: »
    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....

    Daily mail so I doubt it happened.


  • #53
    AhSureTisGrand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭AhSureTisGrand


    Scarlet Crooked Lanyard wrote: »
    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....

    Well first of all that article is from the Daily Mail.

    Second of all if I were a toy shop owner I'd ban feckin Lego if it meant greater profits. Indeed, I'd identify the real problem as being the "PC gone mad" brigade who'd make a big fuss and ring up the Daily Mail about something that doesn't affect them


  • #54
    Teddy_Picker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭Teddy_Picker


    Scarlet Crooked Lanyard wrote: »
    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....

    Handy rule of thumb; if it has Muslims in the headline, and it's in the Mail, it's likely they pulled it out of their arse.


  • #55
    Downlinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭Downlinz


    When I was in 5th class we were doing a play which was about white overlords and black slaves. The theme was about the groups establishing common ground and working for equality.

    For the play we were split down the middle for who got to be white and who got to be black completely random from a hat. We all got our roles, the one black kid in the class was drawn to be black. The teacher felt this could be viewed in a negative way by the audience is if he was forced to be black so forged an excuse to make sure he was white.


  • #56
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


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

    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.
    I'd imagine that if someone is going to undertake formal research into effective treatment of a certain kind of behaviour, their funding applications (etc.) will read a lot better if they contain phrases like "Oppositional Defiant Disorder" rather than "Asshole".

    I wouldn't think the problem is with those creating the "labels" really; more likely the people who hear a term (ODD) and scream "I HAVE THAT!", and the media planting ideas ("Does your child talk back sometimes? He/she may have a mental disorder!"). I'd like to believe that the person who coined the term strove to address a problem that occurs in extreme cases of this type of behaviour. But they might have just needed something new/original to further their career or secure grant money or some such too...


  • #57
    Da Shins Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    That Glee programme kinda makes me sick with its over the top political correctness.


  • #58
    Lanaier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭Lanaier


    Nancy Attractive Plank wrote: »
    You never see an episode of benny hill on tv anymore-
    Good, it's ****e.
    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.


    I think they may have been mentally differently-abled.


  • #59
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


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

    If the hospital was a public hospital then it was only right that Christian extemists were not allowed push their religious agenda on state property.

    And neither should any other religious extremists be allowed either.

    We can all see only too clearly now how bowing to religious types has failed this country.


  • #60
    CaliforniaDream
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭CaliforniaDream


    Half the posters in this thread. Not the worst case, but dear God!


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  • #61
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    "Members of the travelling community"

    Gimme a break ffs


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