What is the worst case of Political Correctness you have come across?

RichieC

Scarlet Crooked Lanyard wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329897/Early-Learning-Centre-toy-pig-banned-farm-set-avoid-offending-Muslims.html absolutely ridiculous!! What i can't understand is that when you go to Muslim countries, you are expected to abide by their cultural rules and customs but when people from those countries go elsewhere, they expect people to bend over backwards to accommodate them....

Daily mail so I doubt it happened.

AhSureTisGrand

Scarlet Crooked Lanyard wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329897/Early-Learning-Centre-toy-pig-banned-farm-set-avoid-offending-Muslims.html absolutely ridiculous!! What i can't understand is that when you go to Muslim countries, you are expected to abide by their cultural rules and customs but when people from those countries go elsewhere, they expect people to bend over backwards to accommodate them....

Well first of all that article is from the Daily Mail.

Second of all if I were a toy shop owner I'd ban feckin Lego if it meant greater profits. Indeed, I'd identify the real problem as being the "PC gone mad" brigade who'd make a big fuss and ring up the Daily Mail about something that doesn't affect them

Teddy_Picker

Scarlet Crooked Lanyard wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329897/Early-Learning-Centre-toy-pig-banned-farm-set-avoid-offending-Muslims.html absolutely ridiculous!! What i can't understand is that when you go to Muslim countries, you are expected to abide by their cultural rules and customs but when people from those countries go elsewhere, they expect people to bend over backwards to accommodate them....

Handy rule of thumb; if it has Muslims in the headline, and it's in the Mail, it's likely they pulled it out of their arse.

Downlinz

When I was in 5th class we were doing a play which was about white overlords and black slaves. The theme was about the groups establishing common ground and working for equality.

For the play we were split down the middle for who got to be white and who got to be black completely random from a hat. We all got our roles, the one black kid in the class was drawn to be black. The teacher felt this could be viewed in a negative way by the audience is if he was forced to be black so forged an excuse to make sure he was white.

Sinfonia

Caraville wrote: »

This:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppositional_defiant_disorder



Why the hell must we put a label on someone who is just basically an asshole?


:mad::mad::mad:

Dudess wrote: »

I don't believe you - only Waterford people say "Well boy"... :pac:

Some of these "disorders" seem like a joke all right (why are they created though? Money I assume?) but then you've got geniuses using the above as currency to dismiss actual behavioural/learning difficulties, like autism, ADHD and dyslexia.

I'd imagine that if someone is going to undertake formal research into effective treatment of a certain kind of behaviour, their funding applications (etc.) will read a lot better if they contain phrases like "Oppositional Defiant Disorder" rather than "Asshole".

I wouldn't think the problem is with those creating the "labels" really; more likely the people who hear a term (ODD) and scream "I HAVE THAT!", and the media planting ideas ("Does your child talk back sometimes? He/she may have a mental disorder!"). I'd like to believe that the person who coined the term strove to address a problem that occurs in extreme cases of this type of behaviour. But they might have just needed something new/original to further their career or secure grant money or some such too...

Da Shins Kelly

That Glee programme kinda makes me sick with its over the top political correctness.

Lanaier

Nancy Attractive Plank wrote: »

You never see an episode of benny hill on tv anymore-

Good, it's ****e.

Sticky_Fingers wrote: »

Unless the got am arm growing out of their back our some other crazy Island of Dr Moreau sh!t going on then they are not "differently abled".

I hope you called this person a retard.

I think they may have been mentally differently-abled.

Zebra3

Dudess wrote: »

I remember a nativity display was removed from a Dublin hospital all right, which was just ludicrous IMO.

If the hospital was a public hospital then it was only right that Christian extemists were not allowed push their religious agenda on state property.

And neither should any other religious extremists be allowed either.

We can all see only too clearly now how bowing to religious types has failed this country.

CaliforniaDream

Half the posters in this thread. Not the worst case, but dear God!

demanufactured

"Members of the travelling community"

Gimme a break ffs

mstan

Zebra3 wrote: »

If the hospital was a public hospital then it was only right that Christian extemists were not allowed push their religious agenda on state property.

And neither should any other religious extremists be allowed either.

We can all see only too clearly now how bowing to religious types has failed this country.

Any plans for December 25th?

Snakeblood

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

That Glee programme kinda makes me sick with its over the top political correctness.

It's not the PC that sucks, it's the show.

mconigol

Was told once about some member of the PC brigade complaining about the term ombudsman. It should be ombudswoman for women.

Actually the word itself just means "representative". Nothing to do with gender!

py2006

mconigol wrote: »

Was told once about some member of the PC brigade complaining about the term ombudsman. It should be ombudswoman for women.

Actually the word itself just means "representative". Nothing to do with gender!

I remember in the late 90's when the term sexism was all the rage, there was a woman on the radio saying that we should refer to 'manholes' as being 'personholes'

etymon

Fozzydog3 wrote: »

this post made me absolutely cringe

that kind of ****e drives me mad. It's like some people just sit around and wait to be 'offended'.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

joe stodge wrote: »

Administrators at a California high school sent five students home after they refused to remove their American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican Day of Independence. That’s right, kids, you can’t wear your country’s flag in your country, lest it offend someone celebrating the holiday of a different country. The story began when Assistant Principal, Miguel Rodriguez, asked two of the five teens to remove their American flag bandanas. The boys complied, but were still taken to the principal’s office for a chat. One of the boys told NBC “They said we could wear it on any other day, but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday, so we were not allowed to wear it.” They are right. It might be a little insensitive to wear an American flag shirt on Cinco De Mayo– if we were in MEXICO.
And it is an important holiday—IN MEXICO. School District Superintendent Wesley Smith later described the incident as “extremely unfortunate” and said the matter is still under investigation.

Ahem.

JohnMarston

py2006 wrote: »

I remember in the late 90's when the term sexism was all the rage, there was a woman on the radio saying that we should refer to 'manholes' as being 'personholes'

When i see a woman actually use one and do down there as part of her job, then i'll call it a 'personhole'

JohnMarston

joe stodge wrote: »

Administrators at a California high school sent five students home after they refused to remove their American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican Day of Independence. That’s right, kids, you can’t wear your country’s flag in your country, lest it offend someone celebrating the holiday of a different country. The story began when Assistant Principal, Miguel Rodriguez, asked two of the five teens to remove their American flag bandanas. The boys complied, but were still taken to the principal’s office for a chat. One of the boys told NBC “They said we could wear it on any other day, but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday, so we were not allowed to wear it.” They are right. It might be a little insensitive to wear an American flag shirt on Cinco De Mayo– if we were in MEXICO.
And it is an important holiday—IN MEXICO. School District Superintendent Wesley Smith later described the incident as “extremely unfortunate” and said the matter is still under investigation.

Even if that were true, why would you decide to wear the flag on that particular day other than to just stir something up? What if the mexican students wore mexican flags on the 4th of July?

old_aussie

Not playing reruns of Love Thy Neighbour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZTdMVWhbHA

yupyup7up

this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4y_24liaq0

Ray Palmer

Ruu wrote: »

The whole Christmas/Happy holiday thing in America. How dare you wish me well! :mad:

That is because there are other religious celebrations at that time of the year and not everybody is celebrating the same thing. To complain about it is the same as somebody suggesting "personhole"

padd b1975

Fairy cakes have suddenly become cup cakes. They don't even look like a cup....... or a fairy come to think of it.

Ray Palmer

padd b1975 wrote: »

Fairy cakes have suddenly become cup cakes. They don't even look like a cup....... or a fairy come to think of it.

Again not PC it is an American term that has become popular. I think technically fairy cakes are the ones where you cut the top off and cut it again then reattach the top like wings.

py2006

padd b1975 wrote: »

Fairy cakes have suddenly become cup cakes. They don't even look like a cup....... or a fairy come to think of it.

Isn't cupcake the American term?

Edit: Sorry, didn't read above post!

Frank Black

I worked on some of the motorway schemes – sometimes when you were looking at re-aligning a local road as part of the main road scheme you would need to be aware of problems regarding ‘Nuisance Parking’.
It basically referred to the Travelers trying to get a load of caravans into any bit of green space you left open to them.

Paparazzo

Were actually not allowed to put a star on our Christmas tree at work. Tree is no problem, but the star is.

Sinfonia

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Again not PC it is an American term that has become popular. I think technically fairy cakes are the ones where you cut the top off and cut it again then reattach the top like wings.

Two cakes one cup?

padd b1975

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Again not PC it is an American term that has become popular. I think technically fairy cakes are the ones where you cut the top off and cut it again then reattach the top like wings.

Yes you are indeed correct. As far as I know the cake you describe with the reattached top is called a butterfly cake.

Turtyturd

Chalk boards...feel free to mention the colour of the white chalk but whatever you do don't mention the colour of the board.

py2006

Turtyturd wrote: »

Chalk boards...feel free to mention the colour of the white chalk but whatever you do don't mention the colour of the board.

Seriously?

Turtyturd

py2006 wrote: »

Seriously?

Yep...kids are told to call them chalk boards nowadays.

Frank Black

I don’t like the way a bunch of sticks can no longer be referred to as a f@ggot.
When I talk about setting fire to a f@ggot people misunderstand and call me a homophobe.

tiny_penguin

Turtyturd wrote: »

Chalk boards...feel free to mention the colour of the white chalk but whatever you do don't mention the colour of the board.

Isnt that though because they are now green not black, as looking at white writing on a black background for too long was harsh on the eyes? I know in my school (which i left 10 years ago) they had replaced any blackboards we had left with green ones, as they had in the primary school i did my work experience in 13 years ago. Chalkboard sounds better than greenboard???

py2006

black francis wrote: »

I don’t like the way a bunch of sticks can no longer be referred to as a f@ggot.
When I talk about setting fire to a f@ggot people misunderstand and call me a homophobe.

Hah, we shouldn't call you 'black' francis! Perhaps just Mr Francis!

tightropetom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2fRSQ4L-SI

You'd never get away with movies like Blazing Saddles nowadays

py2006

tightropetom wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

W2fRSQ4L-SI



You'd never get away with movies like Blazing Saddles nowadays

Learn to embed dude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2fRSQ4L-SI

sensibleken

when they made you get in the right hand lane for taking the third exit on a roundabout.

political correctness gone mad 'oooh what if it offends a left handed person'

Turtyturd

tiny_penguin wrote: »

Isnt that though because they are now green not black, as looking at white writing on a black background for too long was harsh on the eyes? I know in my school (which i left 10 years ago) they had replaced any blackboards we had left with green ones, as they had in the primary school i did my work experience in 13 years ago. Chalkboard sounds better than greenboard???

But where's the Political correctness gone mad in that?

tightropetom

py2006 wrote: »

Learn to embed dude:

Well THAT's helpful. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

As it happens I inadvertently put too much of the link in, and had it changed before your wonderfully helpful reply. :mad:

Padraig Mor

Any thread regarding Travellers on Boards has the PC mods out in force. I remember a AH thread a couple of years ago concerning a 'feud' in Waterford where the protagonists had taken to slashing horses' legs. A particularly Pavee-loving mod banned anyone who stated that Travellers were involved for 'racism' - despite the fact that Gardai had already confirmed it in the national media!

py2006

tightropetom wrote: »

Well THAT's helpful. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

As it happens I inadvertently put too much of the link in, and had it changed before your wonderfully helpful reply. :mad:

My apologies!

sensibleken

I hate the way you cant accuse someone belonging to a minority group of negetive characteristics sterotypical to their group notwithstanding their individual merits in theyre 'ooh what if a person from longford overhears you'

The Scientician

Does "political correctness gone mad" actually exist? Are there any real cases of people being overly sensitive? The closest I've seen in this thread is to terminology to do with disabilities. It's problematic as terminology is alway shifting in acceptability. Moron, gimp, idiot, spastic, retard, handicapped, etc. were all once acceptable terms for people of differing physical and intellectual abilities. I can't help but imagine that there are kids mocking each other with the terms "differently abled" as we speak.

pickarooney

I don't know if it's true that an American commentator once referred to Nelson Mandela as South Africa's first African-American president but if it is, that's it.

py2006

The Scientician wrote: »

Does "political correctness gone mad" actually exist? Are there any real cases of people being overly sensitive? The closest I've seen in this thread is to terminology to do with disabilities. It's problematic as terminology is alway shifting in acceptability. Moron, gimp, idiot, spastic, retard, handicapped, etc. were all once acceptable terms for people of differing physical and intellectual abilities. I can't help but imagine that there are kids mocking each other with the terms "differently abled" as we speak.

It may have being a passing phenomena! It did get quite ridiculous for a bit but perhaps it has died down somewhat. Kind of like the huge sexism thing that went on in the late 90's!!

Sinfonia

Let's all just agree to make hateful remarks about crackers and honkies in the privacy of our own homes.

The Scientician

pickarooney wrote: »

I don't know if it's true that an American commentator once referred to Nelson Mandela as South Africa's first African-American president but if it is, that's it.

I've heard some people in this country use it as a polite term for Africans. They mean well but jaysus.

Dudess

Zebra3 wrote: »

If the hospital was a public hospital then it was only right that Christian extemists were not allowed push their religious agenda on state property.

And neither should any other religious extremists be allowed either.

We can all see only too clearly now how bowing to religious types has failed this country.

It's a Christmas scene - I don't get how it's an example of christian extremists pushing their religious agenda. Christmas has lots of meanings for people, and not necessarily religious, but the nativity scene is one of the images associated with it. It's just a nice, peaceful scene.

py2006 wrote: »

I remember in the late 90's when the term sexism was all the rage

"All the rage"? "In the late 90s"?

padd b1975 wrote: »

Fairy cakes have suddenly become cup cakes. They don't even look like a cup....... or a fairy come to think of it.

That's PC because... it avoids offending cakes...?

Turtyturd wrote: »

Chalk boards...feel free to mention the colour of the white chalk but whatever you do don't mention the colour of the board.

I'd say people can say "blackboard" just fine.
As was said, a lot of those boards aren't black anymore, hence the term becoming obsolete. Seriously, much of this "PC gone mad" stuff... is urban legend/in the head.

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Any thread regarding Travellers on Boards has the PC mods out in force. I remember a AH thread a couple of years ago concerning a 'feud' in Waterford where the protagonists had taken to slashing horses' legs. A particularly Pavee-loving mod banned anyone who stated that Travellers were involved for 'racism' - despite the fact that Gardai had already confirmed it in the national media!

Doubt that happened. The mods clamp down when hate starts getting spewed against all travellers rather than just the ones who get up to violent activity - surely that's fair enough, Boards has a reputation to uphold. I've never seen a mod clamping down on a thread when mere facts were stated.

deisedave

JohnMarston wrote: »

Even if that were true, why would you decide to wear the flag on that particular day other than to just stir something up? What if the mexican students wore mexican flags on the 4th of July?

No comparison to be honest, the Americans were in there own country wearing there own flags. If the Mexicans decided to wear their flag in Mexico on the USA's independence day that would be ok but if they did it in America then they are just looking for trouble to be honest.

py2006

Dudess wrote: »

"All the rage"? "In the late 90s"?

Yea, it was a huge thing then! All the talk on the radio etc! It was the first time I heard the term actually! All men were sexist, chauvinistic etc etc. Women became blokes, dogs moved in with cats etc!

You couldn't look at a women with being called a sexist pig. Some got really carried away. I remember one woman on radio saying we should change the term 'manhole' to 'personhole'. I recall being called a sexist for holding the door open for a woman! :O

It was ridiculous, it appears to have calmed down a lot these days!