[Tom]

Originally posted by GiRTh
How on earth can someone who has been offended by a racist term like *** be vilified the way you guys are vilifying Sticks.

I agree that banning the likes of Baa-Baa black sheep is PC going mad but I thick most of you are failing to understand why we have political correctness I the first place. Not too many years ago people used to use racial epithets all the time and with no consequences. Black people were subjected to out and out abuse and we were then told that we were 'too sensitive'. Political correctness has addressed that. Now we do have the situation where some people have taken it too far, but never lose sight of why political correctness exists and I, for one, would never vilify someone fore being offended by a word that has been used as a racist slur.

1) We aren't vilifying him, simply just arguing our point across
2) We've tried to tell him why he shouldn't be offended; it wasn't used with malicious intent
3) The way in which Sticks is coming across is that all words with some kind of offensive connotation should be banned because of PC gone mad.

There is a black woman actively posting in this thread her points about political correctness. As far as I can see shes against it and finds it pointless. As its supposed to be those types of people that are being "saved" from offense, I think her opinion is more valid than the white people who are enforcing those rules.