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Political Correctness Myths

chocolatepossum

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Does anyone know of a website where I can find information about the "Baa baa Green sheep" type of myths/exaggerations spread about PC in the UK?

I'm having a discussion with people who keep quoting examples of "Political Correctness gone mad!"* which I just KNOW are urban myths, but I can find any information about some of them.

Help?

*Possibly the most overrused and irritating phrase in the English language "Policeman jailed for killing black man in custody? Political correctness gone mad!"
 
Zamzara said:
I don't think most of them are myths. I've never heard anyone describe a story like the one in your footnote as political correctness.

Look at this story from yesterday http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4621993.stm

It is gone mad.
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This story has nothing to do with political correctness. It is just a question of a prisoner being compensated for an alleged wrong he suffered because the Prison Service didn't carry out their administrative functions properly. The nature of the crime for which he was imprisoned is completely irrelevant to the award of compensation.
 
What has that story got to do with political correctness though? Maybe we have different definitions.

An example of a myth/exaggeration is that one of these guys was saying that shops have been banned from selling gingerbread men and must now sell them as "gingerbread people" in packets containing a male and female.

What actually happened was that one supermarket chain decided to bring out a whole family of gingerbread characters, and called them gingerbread "people" for ease of labelling, they deny it has anything to do with PC.
 
chocolatepossum said:
What has that story got to do with political correctness though? Maybe we have different definitions.

An example of a myth/exaggeration is that one of these guys was saying that shops have been banned from selling gingerbread men and must now sell them as "gingerbread people" in packets containing a male and female.

What actually happened was that one supermarket chain decided to bring out a whole family of gingerbread characters, and called them gingerbread "people" for ease of labelling, they deny it has anything to do with PC.
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I think Snopes covers this sort fo thing too, don't they?
 
Mycroft said:
I think Snopes covers this sort fo thing too, don't they?
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They should. The "Race" section tends to cover racist myths or myths about racists. Maybe "Politics?"
 
A subset of these are situations where one particular twit with a chip on their shoulder enforces THEIR version of correctness, but which is quickly overturned once a complaint is filed and the situation is reviewed.

All too often it is only the twit's initial action which is reported, as if such decisions usually were allowed to stand.
 
I recall some judge in Australia or New Zealand or somesuch ruling that a dwarf could not participate in "dwarf tossing" games.

Y'see, it is degrading to him, so the government, on his behalf, is preventing him from degrading himself that way, even though he earned a nice living at it.

If that's degrading, how degrading is it to have other people to extend their claw of control over your life?

Thanks, government, for the "help".


Edit: Oh, wait. It's not degrading. It's his "dignity" they were protecting. Human dignity. International politic's version of the interstate commerce clause, opening up legisltation to every aspect of human life.
 
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