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Define your objections to 'political correctness'.
I don't have any if by that you mean what you express in your last sentence - that pretty much goes without saying for anybody who isn't a bigot. From what I could work out though, it was you who was judging people based on them saying something pretty inoffensive.
Are you really claiming that there are no cases where political correctness goes a bit over the top? How about this one from a paper which might meet your approval
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/may/15/race.world
Did that paper you linked to trot out the often Daily Mail touted "It's PC gone mad". You do tend to find that sentence being used a lot in Daily Fail articles about Christians not getting why they aren't allowed to discriminate against homosexuals or something to do with Muslims and pork etc
Why don't you try following the link and see? Surely it's preferable to have read what you are commenting on?
Nope, doesn't have the words "Political correctness gone mad" in it. Like the term "'elf in safety" it's mostly a term reserved for use by people like Melanie Phillips and Richard Littlejohn...people who are quite possibly suffering from Anosognosia.
I'm not about to disagree with your opinion of those two, nor of the newspaper (sic) they write for.
There is some middle ground though, there are some quite clearly ridiculous examples of political correctness. I seem to remember the Christmas lights in Oxford being de-Christmastized much to the behest of the local Sikh, Muslim and Jewish population.
That's not to say political correctness is bad though. On the whole it's made some wonderful improvements to society.
Again it's all about the context and language used, I tend to turn off when reading anything with such sensationalist language in the context of ethnic or racial issues. They're usually designed to inflame tensions.
So not only have you forgotten that you said "The only people who really complain about 'poltical correctness gone mad' ARE the kind of people who miss the 70's..." you didn't even spot where I'd quoted you?grum - it doesn't really matter that Mr Armstrong-Braun is mistaken, Rusty was accusing anybody using that term of being a closet racist.
It's funny, because, I knew what RS meant. I'm sure most everybody else did too.
Where i work, amongst other restrictions, we can no longer refer to 'political correctness gone mad'. The appropriate phrase is 'political correctness living with mental health problems'.