Have you noticed that slowly like frogs in a boiling pot, that our society is being controlled by the Political Correct Police.
I must admit that at first, it was amusing back room conversation. It started with small things like, a policeman became a policeperson, so as not to offend a policewoman, but then it all settled to a police officer. No problems here, nonspecific gender markings, I get it. That seemed the beginning. Then it went onto referring dwarf / midgets as small people.
Ok I will agree a person who is known as a midget is small, but then so is my grand-daughter. She's a baby, but then again, in a few years all babies may have to be referred to as a small person.
After-all, is not the term “Big Baby” insulting. “Hey! you big baby!” Political Correctness as a movement, actually started by my generation and it throws in the face of our parents. My parents grew up “Calling them as they see them.” It was not considered “Obscene” it was considered “Observation”!
By dad’s generation could call a spade a spade. It was the PC Police that failed to see that a spade is a shovel.
Heres a definition of Political Correctness - is a method of masking your true thoughts. In other words, it’s hypocricy in action. The PC Police are attempting to have everyone hide their true thoughts.
“Speak your mind” was once considered good advise. The PC Police want us all to “Censor our thoughts”
Ask yourself this one question. Who would you trust more, a person who speaks their mind or one who covers their true feelings with padded speech?
Sounds like a politician to me. HEY!! Political Correctness.
Recently in the UK, the PC police went to a new level of absurdity. In a news item regarding the terrorists attacks on the London Subway system, BBC wanted to strip away any offensive language and they called the terrorist, “Misguided Criminals”
Ok, so what's a misguided criminal? One who tried to commit a crime but just didn’t get it right? Is there really a properly guided criminal? Is there a course one can take on being a criminal?
I thought the killing of lives on a subway was a criminal act. Call a spade a spade, they are terrorists. The term Misguided Criminals have started to filter down into the European media.
PC Police even go further, in the US , the NCAA have decided to ban any use of American Indian names and logos by teams playing in NCAA sanctioned events.. The NY Times wrote “Starting in February, any school with a nickname or logo considered racially or ethnically ''hostile'' or ''abusive'' by the NCAA would be prohibited from using them in post season events. Mascots will not be allowed to perform at tournament games, and band members and cheerleaders will also be barred from using American Indians on their uniforms beginning in 2008.” Specifically the team names targeted are; Braves,Indians,Chippewas, Seminoles, Utes, Redmen, Illini,Choctaws, Fighting Siouxx, Savages. I guess the Edmonton Eskimos are next, sheesh!
How many of you have ever used the term “Nitty-Gritty”? In the US a movement has arrived that is banning that phrase from ever being used. I grew up being told that getting down to the nittygritty referred to digging deep enough to do a job properly. Historically, the nittygritty was the debri left in the hold of a slave ship, so a visit to the hold was described as 'going to the nitty-gritty'.
My parents’ generation have used this term for years and I doubt that at no time did anyone ever have the historical perspective in mind. In other words it is a non-offensive phrase. I could go on, because there seems to be an ever-ending set of language restrictions, and many have ended in court over them.
Call it what you want, the PC movement is just ignorant Or should I be saying, factually unencumbered.
