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10-05-2017, 04:34 PM | #1 | |||
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The news is full of stories about how ‘the PC brigade’ is ruining British life, says Nesrine Malik. From Easter being banned to diversity drives ruining businesses, she says, politicians and the press fuel the false idea that diversity threatens all we know. But, she argues, these falsehoods are propagated for a reason – to delegitimise the ideals of the left.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ad-a-lie-video
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10-05-2017, 04:47 PM | #2 | ||
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Oh.I thought the Truth had joined the force for a second there
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10-05-2017, 04:48 PM | #3 | |||
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She's not speaking for me, all I'm getting from her is "there are no problems, so shut up, and know your place" Last edited by Alf; 10-05-2017 at 04:50 PM. |
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10-05-2017, 05:03 PM | #4 | |||
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A youtube video equals the truth..omg that is too funny.
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10-05-2017, 05:21 PM | #5 | |||
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I put it here in the hope of a debate, 3 mocking comments later... Still waiting.
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10-05-2017, 05:27 PM | #6 | ||
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she is wrong. another hard line left wing liberal ....20,000 kids molested in rotherham because the social services and police were too scared of political correctness. why the heck does she put women in with minorities anyway? women are a majority? its time we seperate disabled rights from womens rights and treat disabled rights in their own right. In the past 30 yrs disabled rights have been drowned out by diversity and by the demands of feminsists. The biggest irony of all, the so called peace loving, caring, open minded liberals are the ones who openly advocate violence on the streets way way more than the tories
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10-05-2017, 05:30 PM | #7 | |||
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Easter was banned
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10-05-2017, 05:33 PM | #8 | ||
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10-05-2017, 05:40 PM | #9 | |||
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I liked the video, and I think she made a good point. A lot of people take these Easter egg stories very, very seriously without realising that most liberals are in agreement. I wasn't actually aware it was a fake story!
I personally, however think that the main conflicting issue is people believing that they are above PC or immune to it. Many think that they are not at all PC.. but refuse to acknowledge that there are dozens of words that they would not use because of the offence that it causes. Everyone is a little PC, some more than others. It's up to each person to draw a sensible line. I personally believe lefties and righties have a very similar line for most topics.. but there are some either end of the scale that take the piss, I've found that these people are often disliked by lefties and righties alike.
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10-05-2017, 05:50 PM | #10 | ||
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10-05-2017, 06:13 PM | #12 | |||
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That however is not what is in discussion here, it's the shouting down of those who have taken the time to look closer behind media headlines such as the one purporting that Cadburys had removed Easter... That was believed and repeated without question. And it was ' PC' that was purportedly to blame for this imaginary scenario.
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10-05-2017, 06:44 PM | #13 | |||
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I agree with what she says in the video. Political correctness is the imaginary menace invented by the Right to make the Left look like the enemy and the worst affected by this phantom enemy is TheTruth.
No doubt I'll get reported by the PC brigade for that one ^
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10-05-2017, 07:01 PM | #14 | |||
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It would be pretty un-PC to bury the stories, un-PC people are the enemy there.
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10-05-2017, 07:39 PM | #15 | ||
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Nothing imaginary about PC. Some people will try to convince otherwise but it's there in every aspect of our lives - big, bad, ugly and controlling - trying to tell us all what, when and how to think.
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10-05-2017, 07:51 PM | #16 | |||
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You wouldnt listen to the worlds most un-PC person giving you advice on which offensive words should be brought back, so why listen to the worlds most PC person giving you advice on which inoffensive words should be banned?
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10-05-2017, 07:57 PM | #17 | |||
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I agree with Withano, everybody has a line that they won't cross which could be deemed as "PC."
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10-05-2017, 09:14 PM | #18 | |||
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'PC' sounds a lot like prejudice..
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11-05-2017, 07:48 AM | #19 | ||
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11-05-2017, 08:27 AM | #20 | ||
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Macs work well for what they are but to be honest they are waaay over-priced. That said, fewer and fewer people are using home computers / laptops at all these days, it's mostly tablets and smartphones. Sad.
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11-05-2017, 09:23 AM | #21 | ||
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11-05-2017, 10:03 AM | #22 | |||
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Can you give an example please, as the term is applied far too broadly to know specifically how highlighting misinformation would be misconstrued as discrimination and or prejudice.
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11-05-2017, 10:08 AM | #23 | |||
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He has a great point, my conscience might tell me that cuts hurting the disabled are wrong... Were I to voice that the reaction could be ( and in my personal experience has been) my views are a result of being lefty or PC, it's a lose lose situation.
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11-05-2017, 10:50 AM | #24 | |||
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I think the real bug bearer is this new suggestion that any empathy shown to people less fortunate than ourselves is feigned empathy from the pc brigade... we have to do it because its none pc to do otherwise!
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11-05-2017, 11:48 AM | #25 | |||
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Another made up term that is (or was before 'pc' became the preferred option) a slur to anyone who finds cuts (for instance) a false economy. But more than that as highlighted 'pc' i being used strategically to pit people against one another by alluding they affect 'shared values' as seen with the Cadbury example, when in reality they don't at all.
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