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Good For You Ann, Why Should You Apologize, It Was The Name For A Very Popular Toy.
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Ms. Widdicombe is someone who will doubtless tell anyone who will listen that she 'believes in straight talking'.
That is actually an excuse for speaking without thinking, not considering the effects your words may have on others, and then not caring anyway.
It has its fans among the general pubic, but so does fox hunting - thinking something is OK does not automatically make it so.
Yes golliwogs were popular toys in the past - but putting children up chimneys and into factory machinery and denying women votes and imprisoning homosexuals and sending teenagers to war and so on and so on and so on - all thing we used to do as a society, and we don't do them anymore because times have moved on.
A refusal to accept that terms used generations ago are no longer acceptable smacks of ignorance and arrogance, and to refuse to acknowledge mis-speaking simply increases the offering of those two character traits as acceptable.
It's not acceptable simply because Ms. Widdicombe thinks and says it is - we are more caring and considerate than that.
Ms. Widdicombe is an educated erudite person, she is absolutely capable of making her point without recourse to offensive language, and sitting on her high horse scoffing at people who don't agree with her crass insensitivity diminishes her as a politician, and as a person.
That is actually an excuse for speaking without thinking, not considering the effects your words may have on others, and then not caring anyway.
It has its fans among the general pubic, but so does fox hunting - thinking something is OK does not automatically make it so.
Yes golliwogs were popular toys in the past - but putting children up chimneys and into factory machinery and denying women votes and imprisoning homosexuals and sending teenagers to war and so on and so on and so on - all thing we used to do as a society, and we don't do them anymore because times have moved on.
A refusal to accept that terms used generations ago are no longer acceptable smacks of ignorance and arrogance, and to refuse to acknowledge mis-speaking simply increases the offering of those two character traits as acceptable.
It's not acceptable simply because Ms. Widdicombe thinks and says it is - we are more caring and considerate than that.
Ms. Widdicombe is an educated erudite person, she is absolutely capable of making her point without recourse to offensive language, and sitting on her high horse scoffing at people who don't agree with her crass insensitivity diminishes her as a politician, and as a person.
Cliverjo - // My granny gave me a golliwog when I was young. Am I not allowed to mention that ever again? //
Let's not confuse restriction of free speech with expecting a degree of courtesy and consideration when using speech.
The right to free speech comes with the responsibility not to mis-use it - as the age-old point has it, free speech does not entitle you falsely to shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre.
Let's not confuse restriction of free speech with expecting a degree of courtesy and consideration when using speech.
The right to free speech comes with the responsibility not to mis-use it - as the age-old point has it, free speech does not entitle you falsely to shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre.
Naomi - // AH, that is your opinion but it isn't mine so can ‘we’ please stop with the ‘we’. You don’t speak for me. //
I am using the term 'we' as shorthand for 'society at large' and anyone reading that post, and not looking to nitpick, will understand that perfectly well.
I think any regular here would know that I would never in my wildest dreams imagine that I speak for you!!!
I am using the term 'we' as shorthand for 'society at large' and anyone reading that post, and not looking to nitpick, will understand that perfectly well.
I think any regular here would know that I would never in my wildest dreams imagine that I speak for you!!!
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