Political correctness.

Magnarc · Guru

Political correctness.

Yuglamron · Guru

Along the lines of the media jackals who foster the political correctness line.

I watched three differing news bulletins yesterday re The Clinton/Trump rubbish.

One survey has Trump again leading by a small majority, another had Clinton ahead, same small majority and the third had Clinton running away with a good lead.

It detracts from the facts that the Good Ol' US of A has major problems with health which Obama wanted to sort out but couldn't Gun deaths at epidemic plague levels and workers for fast food giants paid so little in full time jobs they qualify for Govt. Assistance and food stamps whilst they are making trillions of dollars profit.

Divide the masses with trivial matters and go on ripping off the average Joe.

It is getting to be like that here. Take the Banking Royal Commission. Big business doesn't want it so the Govt. doesn't want it, so the headlines go for whatever else will divert the public for the moment.

Yup political correctness is a tool.

The Belmont Bear · Guru

The term political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated to PC),^[1] in modern usage, is used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended primarily not to offend or disadvantage any particular group of people in society. In the media, the term is generally used as a pejorative (derogatory term), implying that these policies are excessive. (wikipedia)

In other words political correctness could well stifle debate or comment on just about anything as I sure that someone is probably going to be offended by whatever topic is being discussed. Turn on the ABC they are normally very good at finding those who have been outraged by something or other - sorry now I've cast aspersions on the people at the ABC and that's not being very politically correct.

-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Saturday 5th of November 2016 02:16:30 PM

Ron-D · Guru

Political correctness is a tool alright just tune into abc and listen to all the left wing stuff ,us the silent majority have a completely different view on things it's called common sense,well hope this is not getting to political, but haveing to put up with these minority lefty groups getting all the press and the silent majority with common sense not haveing there views respected seems to be the way of things.

Cloak · Guru

I'm old and close to the end and after the last 10 years of PC BS and other alphabet acronyms for poofters and a military grade push to push us 1400 years back in time I've concluded this...

Go knock yourselves out, I'm done... I really don't give a hoot if there's a WWIII......

Nuke Mecca...

See ya on the other side.

Bryan · Guru

Ron-D wrote:
Political correctness is a tool alright just tune into abc and listen to all the left wing stuff ,us the silent majority have a completely different view on things it's called common sense,well hope this is not getting to political, but haveing to put up with these minority lefty groups getting all the press and the silent majority with common sense not haveing there views respected seems to be the way of things.

Its time the silent majority unite and start voicing our dissatisfaction.

Possum3 · Guru

The major problem is that; the "Silent Majority" are normally neither.

Lancelot Link · Senior Member

Not allowed to call them Fairy Penguins which as kids we went to Phillip Island to watch the Fairy Penguin parade walk up the beach and over your feet. As kids, we never associated any words that associated with groups, but now, political correct language has changed all that. They are Little Penguins. Even Wrens have been affected. There are no more Fairy Wrens! The rat of the air, the Indian Mynah, which I trap and kill, is now to be called the Common Mynah. Apparently Indians now find it offensive! I find political correctness offensive at the level I am talking about, because the tossers who make these decisions are the ones influence the bigger decisions!

Ron-D · Guru

Lancelot Link wrote:
Not allowed to call them Fairy Penguins which as kids we went to Phillip Island to watch the Fairy Penguin parade walk up the beach and over your feet. As kids, we never associated any words that associated with groups, but now, political correct language has changed all that. They are Little Penguins. Even Wrens have been affected. There are no more Fairy Wrens! The rat of the air, the Indian Mynah, which I trap and kill, is now to be called the Common Mynah. Apparently Indians now find it offensive! I find political correctness offensive at the level I am talking about, because the tossers who make these decisions are the ones influence the bigger decisions!

yep were now a left wing society in some respects the older generation was far better off .

The Belmont Bear · Guru

This is becoming a real crisis for Australians what are we supposed to call things like fairy lights, fairy bread, the tooth fairy - worse still if we go to Sydney we won't even be able to catch a Manly fairy. Imagine how much it is now going to cost us to change all those children's fairy tales - oops sorry said fairy again I hope that I didn't offend anyone.

Lancelot Link · Senior Member

Noddy and Bigears, along with Golliwog got banned. I grew up on that stuff and because Noddy slept in the same bed as Bigears and Golliwog was a black doll with fuzzy hair, best as I remember him, kids aren't allowed to read these books! I give up. I saw a kids book in a bookshop about a boy having two mothers. No father, just two mothers. Apparently there is also one about two fathers as well. Is this political correctness or a degradation of society and a repeat of the fall of Rome?

Tony Bev · Guru

Tongue in cheek

worse still if we go to Sydney we won't even be able to catch a Manly ferry

I should hope not, that word discriminates against any who is not a man, we will have to catch the equal opportunity ferry, and just hope that it is going to Manly

dorian · Guru

Trump's in, PC is dead, global recession and WW3 are just around the corner. With any luck I'll just catch the mushroom cloud as I'm closing my eyes for the last time. Armageddon -- bring it on.

hako · Guru

Sorry to say fellas but political correctness is not promoted solely by the left wing - moderates and the right wing are just as guilty.

Good Luck.

PeterD · Guru

I don't know about the "recently fostered" bit. I first saw it around over 10 years ago in the following form.

Political Correctness

A doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible -

to pick up a turd by the clean end

-- Edited by PeterD on Tuesday 15th of November 2016 05:35:00 PM

sandsmere · Guru

Doesn't really worry me.

At our place Power Outages are still called Blackouts,

Fairies are still Fairies, etc. etc. and forever it will remain. smile

Phillipn · Guru

Lancelot Link wrote:
Not allowed to call them Fairy Penguins which as kids we went to Phillip Island to watch the Fairy Penguin parade walk up the beach and over your feet. As kids, we never associated any words that associated with groups, but now, political correct language has changed all that. They are Little Penguins. Even Wrens have been affected. There are no more Fairy Wrens! The rat of the air, the Indian Mynah, which I trap and kill, is now to be called the Common Mynah. Apparently Indians now find it offensive! I find political correctness offensive at the level I am talking about, because the tossers who make these decisions are the ones influence the bigger decisions!

Fairy Penguins are still Fairy Penguins to me, as is Fairy Wrens, Indian Mynahs, and power blackouts are still blackouts not outages. I eat pork and ham and I don`t care who I upset.

-- Edited by Phillipn on Wednesday 16th of November 2016 12:07:26 PM

-- Edited by Phillipn on Wednesday 16th of November 2016 12:08:49 PM

The Belmont Bear · Guru

Just my opinion but - we shouldn't be taking this too seriously as far as I know there is no law preventing people from using terms such as fairy, blackout, Indian Mynah etc. it is only deemed by our ever vigilant "thought police" as being politically incorrect to do so. When we start taking these people too seriously they have won so just treat this stuff like the joke that it is. They may have enough influence to get things removed from children's story books but really they have no influence over what words people use in their everyday conversations.

-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Thursday 17th of November 2016 10:58:31 AM

jules47 · The Happy Helper

We speak English - why can't we use the whole of the English language? If people from different countries have birds like fairy wrens - what do they call them?

I have called "grass trees" "blackboys" all my life - nobody objected - it is ridiculous!

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.