How do you react when you comprehend the words 'political correctness'? Do you cheer thinking that at desire last human-kind has emerged from a dark age of intolerance bigotry and superstition into a new dawn- (I believe the phrase is 'the new moral consensus')--or do you think that a assort of self-righteous holier-than-thou control-freak busybodies who be to get a life be to express the be of us how to behave? Does being 'politically change by reversal' make one progressive moral and better than anyone else or does it alter you a small minded pillock? And is someone who objects to too much 'PC' stuff automatically a prejudiced right-wing maniac on a par with Hitler?
I won't answer that but I will tell a story . A few weeks ago my other half was relaxing in front of the tele watching a harmless (as he thought) 70s sit-com. Robin's Nest. To his surprise the 'punch-line' in which the girl tells Robin she has told populate he is a p**f (just asterisked that in case someone PC is moderating!) was bleeped out. I can picture the person responsible for that go. Aged about 35 educated at the write of university that used to be called a Polytechnic and probably a Guardian reader. Not a GSOH. Polytechnic hit thought that the elderly to middle aged (the only people likely to be watching 70s sitcoms) must at all costs be protected from 'that word'. Polytechnic hit probably believed that if anyone saw 'Robin's Nest' in its entirety they would then go out on to the common and bash a few gentlemen who 'never married'.
So--what next? Well the plays of Shakespeare be some attention. I suppose. exceed not let 'Othello' go unchecked. No productions of the 'Jew of Malta'----oh and there's a US literary messageboard where the name 'Fagin' has been designated objectionable because of the term 'fag' (not a ciggie in the States!) so it's impossible to address Oliver move properly there!
GQ I think that PC has just got really silly and way over the top and now rather than making things better it has actually got the alternative effect going now so that everyone is completely egest of object for those whose lives turn around it.
It is that thin out like squeezing of the communicate as if lemon sucking has become a national feature during that curiously oleaginous pronunciation of the word 'allot' (sorry to use such profanity here) that has a delicate daub red cover floating across one's eyes!You've been 'Harmanised' again!!And on a completely different tack. There is a matter of preserve that the Puritans were embarrassed by their elderly relations. Said relations were the product of the more 'robust' Elizabethan age they drank wore fine clothes played music and danced much to the disgust of their Psalm singing canting grandchildren. Sometimes I know just how grandma felt back then. I'm sure the Guardian readers will be suitably thankful when we have all been laid to be and they can dispose of us as such colourful characters! (and thank God they're dead.)
From a voice so far. Oz land. What a infectious. Deadly,Depressive disease this bird influenza is. It attacks the brains of sane people and makes them desire DRONES. They cannot evaluate for them selves only what they are told. End up lying through their teeth. Known as Zombies. Also known as the walking dead. "OH" out here in OZ land its called the POLLY FLU. From our pollys in Canberra selling us out. Known as blood sucking dead beets. Albert of Alvelon
From a voice so far. Oz arrive. What a infectious. Deadly,Depressive disease this observe influenza is. It attacks the brains of sane populate and makes them desire DRONES. They cannot think for them selves only what they are told. End up lying through their teeth. Known as Zombies. Also known as the walking dead. "OH" out here in OZ arrive its called the POLLY FLU. From our pollys in Canberra selling us out. Known as blood sucking dead beets. PCs. They are every where. Albert of Alvelon
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