What is the most politically correct thing you have heard?

end of the road · 19-11-2013 05:28PM

jim_jim wrote: »

it so is not

it so is

Gotham · 19-11-2013 05:29PM

I know Snow White was mentioned early in the thread. But this is a master stroke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bTqBiZlnAk

I can still say stroke, right?

Jason Todd · 19-11-2013 05:30PM

A school in Waterford told the kids to sing Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep instead of Baa Baa Black Sheep. :mad:

old hippy · 19-11-2013 05:31PM

Jason Todd wrote: »

A school in Waterford told the kids to sing Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep instead of Baa Baa Black Sheep. :mad:

Ok, now that is silly, for sure. Do you have a link to this?

end of the road · 19-11-2013 05:37PM

osarusan wrote: »

The society of black lawyers' idiotic attempt to portray Roy Hodgson as a racist.

the reason wasters like the society of black lawyers go on with such nonsense is because people and the media give them attention, we should (and in my case do) ignore these wasters

padd b1975 · 19-11-2013 05:39PM

I read a post on here last week where some loon tried to claim that they didn't see race.

Elmo · 19-11-2013 05:43PM

Jason Todd wrote: »

A school in Waterford told the kids to sing Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep instead of Baa Baa Black Sheep. :mad:

Baa, baa, Rainbow sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, I Do, yes, I Do,
Three bags full;
One for the gentleman,
And one for the lady,
And one for the boy of average height
Who lives in a nice house

Just so it's not degrading to anyone or that it might put people in positions of power.

Davelarson · 19-11-2013 06:18PM

old hippy wrote: »

You were never forced to watch the school play, then?

You've lost me on the neo nazi stuff, though? Perhaps you could kindly explain what that has to do with radical feminist art?

The only play I ever had to watch in school was the Nativity. But yeah, compare being forced to watch the school play with, as an adult being forced by your employer to attended an ideologically motivated one woman show, yeah that's genius mate.

Lets force teachers to attend a performance piece where the problem of false accusations of rape against men are discussed. I mean no one would have a problem with that would they?

old hippy · 19-11-2013 06:23PM

Davelarson wrote: »

The only play I ever had to watch in school was the Nativity. But yeah, compare being forced to watch the school play with, as an adult being forced by your employer to attended an ideologically motivated one woman show, yeah that's genius mate.

Lets force teachers to attend a performance piece where the problem of false accusations of rape against men are discussed. I mean no one would have a problem with that would they?

Bobbins. You don't much care for art or feminism. It seems to upset you on some deep level there. And then you made a great logical leap which resulted in you dismissing and denigrating an entire nation. Genius, Dave. Double genius.

And please refrain from calling me "mate", unless you want to go out with me or something? :rolleyes:

Davelarson · 19-11-2013 06:26PM

oldyouth wrote: »

I had a witty response to that bit I decided against posting it.

Jaysus, the PC brigade have my balls in a sling :mad:

Go on say it, let some righteous old liberal get his knickers in a twist. It will be hilarious.

Davelarson · 19-11-2013 06:30PM

old hippy wrote: »

Bobbins. You don't much care for art or feminism. It seems to upset you on some deep level there. And then you made a great logical leap which resulted in you dismissing and denigrating an entire nation. Genius, Dave. Double genius.

And please refrain from calling me "mate", unless you want to go out with me or something? :rolleyes:

Sorry pal, I didn't realize the word 'mate' offended you. I care for art, I don't care for feminism when it sets out to portray all men as wife beaters and rapists.

And I see you still haven't haven't responded to the real problem, that the teachers were forced to attend the performance.

Pug160 · 19-11-2013 06:36PM

old hippy wrote: »

The PC brigade is a mythical entity. Usually invoked by those who feel their freedom to spout offensive slurs and epithets is being threatened...

Liberal fascism is as dangerous as any other kind of fascism. Some people genuinely mean well and want society to progress. But there are extremists out there, and I don't think they're a tiny minority. I don't think there is anything wrong with being a sensible liberal. But from what I have read on here, it seems that a lot of you are terribly scared that World War 3 might erupt at any moment at the slightest hint of what you perceive as something non PC. That's fear. And it also means you have a pretty low opinion of everybody else, which is pretty patronising. You are all so enlightened and the rest aren't. Or so you think.

Davelarson · 19-11-2013 06:40PM

Pug160 wrote: »

Liberal fascism is as dangerous as any other kind of fascism. Some people genuinely mean well and want society to progress. But there are extremists out there, and I don't think they're a tiny minority. I don't think there is anything wrong with being a sensible liberal. But from what I have read on here, it seems that a lot of you are terribly scared that World War 3 might erupt at any moment at the slightest hint of what you perceive as something non PC. That's fear. And it also means you have a pretty low opinion of everybody else, which is pretty patronising. You are all so enlightened and the rest aren't. Or so you think.

Very well said. Freedom of speech is the most vital right we have. It trumps your 'feelings' any day. Some of the loons on here want a tightly regulated society with anything 'offensive' consigned to the memory hole.

Sir Humphrey Appleby · 19-11-2013 06:46PM

Davelarson wrote: »

Very well said. Freedom of speech is the most vital right we have. It trumps your 'feelings' any day. Some of the loons on here want a tightly regulated society with anything 'offensive' consigned to the memory hole.

Except that of course freedom of speech does not exist, their is no right to unregulated freedom of speech, thankfully.

Friend Computer · 19-11-2013 07:13PM

Jason Todd wrote: »

A school in Waterford told the kids to sing Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep instead of Baa Baa Black Sheep.

This is a long, long running urban myth that originates in England. The nursery (or creche, I forget what it was exactly) used "rainbow" as well other words to help expand the children's vocabulary and improve diction.

Pug160 wrote: »

Liberal fascism is

An oxymoron, as fascism is a right-wing ideology.

You want to see the "PC brigade"? Go to Tumblr, you'll find plenty of whackjobs on both sides but that's it, they're all confined to the internet.

And I don't believe I'm enlightened, I just don't carry a massive victim complex around with me and constantly piss and moan about how bad I have it that I can't be a complete asshole to other people.

GalwayGuy2 · 19-11-2013 07:13PM

Bobbins. You don't much care for art or feminism. It seems to upset you on some deep level there. And then you made a great logical leap which resulted in you dismissing and denigrating an entire nation. Genius, Dave. Double genius.

And please refrain from calling me "mate", unless you want to go out with me or something?

Meh, who cares if he cares about feminism. People disagree with all forms of political theory/ideology. And it is hard to enjoy art that you don't see an enjoyable, or particularly worthwhile.

And the part in bold: Are you hinting he's gay to ridicule or insult him? Who cares if he's attracted to you?

This shows how plenty of people who class themselves as progressives are actually what their complaining about. Eg: Making fun of men who are 'feminine' or 'gay' in videos to try and highlight perceived objectification, or homophobia.

It's a really weird self-perpetuating act

Pug160 · 19-11-2013 07:19PM

Friend Computer wrote: »

This is a long, long running urban myth that originates in England. The nursery (or creche, I forget what it was exactly) used "rainbow" as well other words to help expand the children's vocabulary and improve diction.

An oxymoron, as fascism is a right-wing ideology.

You want to see the "PC brigade"? Go to Tumblr, you'll find plenty of whackjobs on both sides but that's it, they're all confined to the internet.

And I don't believe I'm enlightened, I just don't carry a massive victim complex around with me and constantly piss and moan about how bad I have it that I can't be a complete asshole to other people.

It's a perfectly legitimate term when taken into context.

Friend Computer · 19-11-2013 07:28PM

Context? There's only one context terms like that are used in and they're not used for anything other than fearmongering. Oooh "fascism"! Better watch out or the blackshirts are gonna get you!

Zed Bank · 19-11-2013 07:36PM

In my secondary school we were told not to say "dwarf" or "little person" but "Vertically challenged individual due to genetic factors"

Nodin · 19-11-2013 07:40PM

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Its still representing a fringe movement and its still dubious to have mandatory attendance at an ideologically driven event by a public secular school.

I hope there was no math or social science teachers in the audience to get annoyed at the misuse of statistics :P

Seeing as he couldn't even describe the content correctly, I'd hold off on taking his word it was mandatory.

The Dom wrote:

Take the Baa Baa Black Sheep as an example. These clowns thought black people would
offended by the word black. A black parent had to come forward and tell them
they were being ridiculous to even think about banning the nursery rhyme

Never happened. That was debunked years ago, but still does the rounds.

jank · 19-11-2013 08:08PM

old hippy wrote: »

Completely. We see boards full of such criticism on a daily basis. Gays, Travellers, Roma, immigrants, people on the dole, people who are pro choice - all criticised relentelssly with the same predictable zeal one equates with a circus performance.

And you think that people on the other side are not critisised by the same zeal by the left? If you declare yourself pro-life on this website its almost being one step away from condoning the murder of healthy women... and so on.

clairefontaine · 19-11-2013 08:12PM

There was a campaign several years ago in NYC to invite the "financially challenged" to come get a decent meal. It was intended for the homeless.

Public school teachers showed up.

jank · 19-11-2013 08:15PM

Fascism can certainly exist on the left, the right doesnt have a monopoloy on hate or totalitarianism, in fact many times they outdo the right in terms of numbers killed and their oppression.

Killer Wench · 19-11-2013 08:22PM

MonaPizza wrote: »

The term Afro/African American serves to describe someone how they "LOOK", i.e. BLACK

The term Irish-American or Polish-American or Italian-American or any other WHITE volk is tendered purely to refer to perhaps a cultural sect or community spirit.

Would you EVER hear a cop asking you if you could describe the brawl. "Were there African-Americans involved or would they best be describes as "Finno-Prussians" ?

"No, man! I have no idea as to the continental origins of those involved but one was as dark as night and spoke like a man from the Caribbean, another was as white as milk and wore a football shirt, a third had glossy black hair and slanted eyes and the fourth...a vicious female had blue hair. She was covered in tattoos and had a red dot on her forehead."

Can't say for certain if any of these were "XXXX-Americans".

BLACK...BLACK...BLACKEDY,BLACKEDY BLACK!!!

My two nieces are half-caste or mullatto or whatever you want to call them. Little caramel, frizzy-heads.

Are they African-American? NO! They are just brown.

Totally disagree with this post. African American, or Black, is an ethnic group of Americans who are the descendants of African slaves forcibly brought to the Americas during the Great Hypocrisy.

Unfortunately, the media applies the term to any American of African origin. Obama is the first black president. He is the first Kenyan-American president. He is not African America nor is he Black.

clairefontaine · 19-11-2013 08:26PM

Killer Wench wrote: »

Totally disagree with this post. African American, or Black, is an ethnic group of Americans who are the descendants of African slaves forcibly brought to the Americas during the Great Hypocrisy.

Unfortunately, the media applies the term to any American of African origin. Obama is the first black president. He is the first Kenyan-American president. He is not African America nor is he Black.

He's the first black president but he's not black? What?

Killer Wench · 19-11-2013 08:28PM

clairefontaine wrote: »

He's the first black president but he's not black? What?

Read carefully.

black = racial designation, typically based off of aesthetic appearance

Black, or African American = an ethnic designation, defined by shared ancestry of those descended from African slaves

clairefontaine · 19-11-2013 08:31PM

Killer Wench wrote: »

Read carefully.

black = racial designation, typically based off of aesthetic appearance

Black, or African American = an ethnic designation, defined by shared ancestry of those descended from African slaves

In one sentence you say he is black. In the next sentence you say he is not black.

Friend Computer · 19-11-2013 08:35PM

Here, it's easy - Orange: a historical principality in the south of France; orange: a fruit and a colour.

Capitalisation is important in denoting whether the word is a noun or a proper noun.

Iwasfrozen · 19-11-2013 08:38PM

Friend Computer wrote: »

An oxymoron, as fascism is a right-wing ideology.

Fascism is not right wing. Hitler was very very socialist and advocated strong government intervention into the economy. Take a look at this quote for example, looking around at some of the posters on boards I can't help feel this recession is causing history to repeat itself a great deal. Compare Hitler's speech in 1920 to that of Russell Brand on Jeremy Paxman. The truth is Hitler, his ideology and his party were much more left wing than todays mainstream parties.

We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunities for employment and earning a living.

The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and for the good of all. Therefore, we demand:...an end to the power of the financial interests.

We demand profit sharing in big business.

We demand a broad extension of care for the aged.

We demand...the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of the national, state and municipal governments.

In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education...We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents...

The government must undertake the improvement of public health -- by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth.

[We] combat the...materialistic spirit withn and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of The Common Good Before the Individual Good .

(Nazi party platform adopted at Munich, February 24, 1920;Der Nationalsozialismus Dokumente 1933-1945, edited by Walther Hofer, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Bucherei, 1957, pp. 29-31).
From the "Twenty-Five Point" Programme of the German National Socialist Workers Party, authored by Adolf Hitler and others on February 24, 1920. (Konrad Heiden's translation in A History of National Socialism)

"It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole...that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual....This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture....The basic attitude form which such activity arises, we call -- to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness -- idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men."

(Adolf Hitler speaking at Bueckeburg, Oct. 7, 1933; The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, 1922-39, ed. N.H. Baynes (2 vols., Oxford, 1942), I, 871-72; translation Professor George Reisman.)

"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." - Adolf Hitler

clairefontaine · 19-11-2013 08:38PM

Friend Computer wrote: »

Here, it's easy - Orange: a historical principality in the south of France; orange: a fruit and a colour.

Capitalisation is important in denoting whether the word is a noun or a proper noun.

Ah right. Was not aware Black is now a proper noun.

I can't keep up with all the racial musical chairs.

What is the most politically correct thing you have heard?

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