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Post by Naselus on Jul 26, 2004 13:32:45 GMT
It is indeed. Not a particularly serious one, it has to be said, be it's well worth a read.
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Post by The mekanik on Jul 27, 2004 10:08:26 GMT
Excelent. I shall procure it for my feil trip this weekend.
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Post by TheCritique on Aug 7, 2004 11:45:48 GMT
Those laws which you cite are actually racist. Take a case study:
It may just be the case that the skills required are only available at best quality in the majority of the population. So, the best workforce may consist of 2% of ethnic minorities. The company would then be taken to court and punished - merely for taking on the best workforce!
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Post by Naselus on Aug 9, 2004 11:21:08 GMT
Well exactly. Political correctness has reached a point where you need special authorisation from the government for certain jobs to be exempt from the 3% law, and the number of those are extremely small (I think the list is about eight jobs long). Political correctness has now swung so far into the ridiculous that it is no longer politically correct itself!
I doubt that it really makes any difference whatsoever about ethnicity in the workplace anyway, unless you work for the Ku Klux Klan, but having laws to force people to have 3% of their workforce belong to minority groups helps no-one. It's quite obviously prejudiced.
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Post by HStorm on Sept 27, 2005 17:56:38 GMT
This may be the biggest if-it-didn't-make-you-angry-it'd-make-you-laugh one yet.
The maternity unit at a hospital in Yorkshire has banned visitors from cooing at babies, because they think the babies are patronised and distressed by all the "prodding" and "face-pulling".
I was gonna ask if there were any thoughts on this, but I somehow suspect I already know what they're gonna be...
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Post by HStorm on Mar 9, 2006 17:48:00 GMT
Hmm, here's a more questionable one. I'd be interested to know whether people support this one, especially Modeski, for reasons that'll soon be obvious.
British ads regulators have banned a commercial by the Australian tourist board from being broadcast until they alter the closing slogan. As it stands, the ad demands of prospective British tourists, "So where the bloody hell are you?" The regulators want it changed to "So where are you?"
Unsurprisingly, the Aussie tourist board are having a laugh about this, but would people on the forum say this change is PC or reasonable?
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Post by Naselus on Mar 9, 2006 18:47:20 GMT
PC? PC!? I think it's entirely reasonable!
Exposing our children to the use of the word 'bloody' in advertising is completely unacceptable. I've already written to my MP about the issue, advising a total discontinuation of diplomatic relations with Australia, an immediate military build-up in New Zealand, a full economic embargo, determined efforts to destabalize the current tourist board regime, and also strategic strikes to eliminate any genuine or potential swearing capacity still under Australian control.
And that's before I've even gotten started on such glib use of the word "Hell".
Yours faithfully, Mary Whitehouse.
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Post by HStorm on Mar 9, 2006 19:47:51 GMT
Thanks, Mary, and it's great to know you haven't let a little thing like years decomposing in a graveyard keep you from preaching to us about how evil we all are.
I agree this one was still a bit silly, although certainly not as ludicrous as many of the other examples listed here; at least worth thinking about. But yeah, bottom line, it's still reactionary nonsense.
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Post by modeski on Mar 9, 2006 21:59:24 GMT
British ads regulators have banned a commercial by the Australian tourist board from being broadcast until they alter the closing slogan. As it stands, the ad demands of prospective British tourists, "So where the bloody hell are you?" The regulators want it changed to "So where are you?" Unsurprisingly, the Aussie tourist board are having a laugh about this, but would people on the forum say this change is PC or reasonable? Ahaha, I'm astonished this "debate" is raging in other parts of the world. Well I think the whole thing is bloody ridiculous. "Bloody" is not a swear word, in fact one politician said that it was the Great Australian Adjective. This is an absolute non-issue, which the ultra-PC brigade are happily holding up as an indicator of the downfall of moral values and lack of pride in Australia. The fact is, the advertisers who dreamt up this slogan knew exactly what they were doing. When was the last time we had a discussion on tourist board ads?
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Post by HStorm on Mar 9, 2006 22:11:03 GMT
Well yeah, apparently the bigwigs at Tourism Australia have smirked that, very obviously, the notoriety of the ad will be increased by the dispute, and the interest that ensues will doubtless make it more successful.
The debate isn't exactly 'raging'. And the ultra-PC brigade aren't really involved, it's just the British Advertising Standards people. (Mind you, many would argue that they constitute 90% of the same people.)
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Post by HStorm on Jun 9, 2006 14:27:11 GMT
The Chief of the North Wales Metropolitan Police has requested England fans with St George's Cross flags on their cars stop brandishing them if they should cross the border. He feels that Welsh locals would view anyone making a big show of supporting England during the World Cup as 'needlessly provocative'.
Now my hatred of political correctness is well-recorded, but it counts double when listening to the whines of Nationalists on the Celtic Fringe, as the hypocritical double-standards are as profound there as in any other field of PC. Many times when I was living in Scotland, locals would tell me off for remaining an England supporter, saying it made me 'hypocritical'. (Never mind the fact that I was living north of the border by necessity, not by chioice.) And yet I've never met a Scotsman living south of the border and who even considered supporting England, or not supporting Scotland.
So I'm sure Naselus and Modeski will know full well what my response was when I read this particular statement from the North Welsh Met. For the rest of you - discounting the foul language of course - it went like this; -
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Post by Thanatos on Jun 9, 2006 14:57:43 GMT
Earlier this year a number of rags (including that notorious tabloid, The Times) reported that a nursery school had changed "Baa baa black sheep" to "baa baa rainbow sheep" so as not to offend ethnic minorities. Private Eye rendered the kind service of pointing out that this story not only was false - the truth was that the children sang it with all sorts of words, both chromatic (including, yes, "rainbow") and otherwise, in place of "black" as a vocabulary-building exercise - but had been doing the rounds in the press since 1986.
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Post by HStorm on Jun 9, 2006 17:00:42 GMT
It is interesting, isn't it, how the anti-PC brigade in the press have become almost as knee-jerk and hysterical in their outrage at the slightest suggestion of political correctness, as the pro-PC brigade are at the slightest hint of incorrectness.
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