Has Political Correctness Gone Mad?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4251306/Political-correctness-gone-mad-writes-TREVOR-PHILLIPS.html

[andy-hughes]

Deskdiary - absolutely.

My father used to preface another of his interminable options with "Well do you want to know what I think?"

I am sure if anyone had said the truth, which was clearly "No thanks..." he would have not heard it, because his default position was always all transmit and no receive.

As you advise - people who have trenchant ignorant biased stupid views on absolutely every subject under the sun, always assume that the rest of the world waits with baited breath for those views to be delivered because, as they are the absolute last word, there is no need for anyone else to trouble themselves saying anything further on the subject.

[Gromit]

Phillips has a long record of being an idiot. Now its seems, he is a geriatric idiot.

He seems to believe that black people cannot be racist, which is utter nonsense, of course they can. The fact that he has been called racist he seems to attribute to Political Correctness. Nothing of the sort. He said something stupid, and he got negative feedback. Big deal, not sure why he feels he has to burden us with his pathetic bleating. But Mail readers lap up this rubbish everyday, so I suppose he is just feeding the market.

[anotheoldgit]

Deskdiary

/// Speaking one's mind suggests to me somebody who has no tact and is boorish &/or doesn't have the brains to read a situation. ///

And haven't you spoke (or rather typed) your own mind, or have you just copied someone else's mind thoughts?

[sp1814]

AOG

Do you do that to challenge my grammar Nazi sensibilities?

[hereIam]

Of course it's gone mad, but it's been that way for a very long time now ...

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// Do you do that to challenge my grammar Nazi sensibilities? ///

Explain to me what your "grammar Nazi sensibilities" are, then I may be able to answer you.

[sp1814]

'spoke'

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

Since you have given yourself that description, then I take it that you won't take offence at being called 'AnswerBank's Grammar Nazi'.

I cannot possibly see what kicks you get out of pointing out my grammar mistakes, unless of course you think it makes you feel superior in some way?

But classing one superior to another, especially if the other happens to have a different skin colour to you, leaves one wide open at being labelled 'a racist'.

[bednobs]

there is a rogram on tonight that might interest you :0) 9pm channel 4

[sp1814]

AOG

I have no problem with being described as a grammar Nazi, because that's what I am.

'Should of' drives me made.

The inability to discern the difference between your and you're drives me mad.

The misuse of their, they're and there makes me want to scream.

But these all pale in comparison to the disappointment I feel when someone tries to compare adherence to grammatical structures to racism.

That makes me sad, because it means that we have all reached the final stop on the line...

[andy-hughes]

AOG - //But classing one superior to another, especially if the other happens to have a different skin colour to you, leaves one wide open at being labelled 'a racist'. //

Only you could shoehorn a comment about grammar into being about race.

Only you ...

[bednobs]

i dunno if anyone is watching the aforementioned program but it's very interesting!

[Mamyalynne]

Well it was in the link the OP gave so he may well be - I'm recording it.

[jourdain2]

I'm watching it, too. Very interesting, as previously stated.

[-Talbot-]

The inability to discern the difference between your and you're drives me mad.




But are you selective on who you pull up when a grammatical error is made, sp?

[naomi24]

I would like the grammar police to get over themselves and stop diverting serious threads with this nonsense.