Is political correctness making British people weak and afraid?

Question

Does the fact that calling a spade a spade and being brutally honest is constantly being frowned apon in the UK , making people afraid to speak their mind and their opinions for fear of being racsist, homophobic etc. Is Political correctness the new form of Fascism developed to keep indigenous people of UK quiet while other nations , races get carte blanche treatment . I for one am proud to be British and all that it stands for . (No doubt some will take offence at this and report me , which will only prove my point lol)

Answer 1

Political Correctness is not only making British people weak etc., it is also effecting the world. I am Irish living in London 40 years. I still consider myself Irish. However, I abide by British Law, social rules etc. I know, and tell many funny Irish jokes and indeed regularly swop them with a Jewish friend for his funny Jewish jokes. I see no harm in it whatsoever. I am called Paddy but that is not my name, I take no offence. When I hear some of the things that are being rammed into schoolchildrens brains, I cringe. Political Correctness has nothing whatsoever to do with Racism and both should not be confused. When I had responsibility for several young men I would advise the black ones to find out who the true racists were. With them they knew exactly where they stood. It was the ones who pretended to be non-racist and politically correct who were the ones who would regularly stab the black person in the back and block promotion etc. I hope sincerely that this will be the year when P.C. dies a death and that we do not go down the track of America. Call all British people British, and never start the British Asian, British West Indian etc., which I honestly believe is the most racist slur of them all. If foreign people do not wish to be integrated with British society, refer to them as Irish, French, Asian, African, Australian but never prefix it with British. We are already on a slippery slope with the Celtic footballer being charged with violent conduct when he blessed himself whilst playing against Rangers. Where is that going to lead to........... God only knows...

Answer 2

Political Correctness does seem to cross the line more and more these days. However we have to look at the origins of political correctness, why it even exists....

It's not just a racial thing. It's wrong to call someone retarded or crippled these days, there are "correct" terms such as disabled. It's the same with calling people of certain races by names that they approve of rather than terms which have derrived from racism or other negatve origins.

It's not really a bad thing, to call someone or say something in a less offensive way is surely better for everyone. So in some respect political correctness is here becuase of ourselves and our own past ignorances.

It does go too far though when people are prevented from doing their own thing. Displaying a nativity scene in a shop window is perfectly fine, and i don't think any other religious person would complain, afterall they would understand how importat religion is to some people, just like they themselves are able to celebrate and worship freely.

To be honest though, the people who come out with the Politcal Correctness that seems to offend so many tend to be goverment or council officials who have nothing else to do, but want to attract some lime-light for "trying to make the world a nicer place".

Minority groups in Britain don't want to spoil everyone else's fun, if they did they would be stereotyped against and hated. It's the british-born white-collar do-gooders that cause these frustrations and divisions.

Answer 3

The whole politically correct process is achieving exactly the opposite of what it set out to do. In high school books now if you show a picture of a white family in a story you also have to show a black family in the same story - well, ok sort of. BUT - if you show a blond family and you bring a Korean family in - they must be blond too... and if one mom is fat or skinny the other one should be the opposite because we wouldn't want the blond Korean mother to be portrayed as overweight. In the US we have the ACLU to guarantee that if you're not initially pissed off about something stupid they will sue the proper people to enrage everyone. You can't wear a cross in class, no sign of religion, no sign of ethnicity, nothing. You have to get EVERYTHING approved before you even talk in front of a group of people, and I'm with you I'm proud to be an American and I pride myself on my own capabilities to self-govern my righteousness. It's to the point where we are all trying so dam hard to be everything to everyone, that we don't even have a message at all,.

Answer 4

It is making people very angry not least of all because their choice is being taken away. Positive discrimination is the main cause of this whereby a foreign national does not have to sit the same tests for a job that others do. The problem with this is that when you discriminate in favour of one group of people you discriminate against everyone else and that is not fair either. The politically correct impose their values on us with no thought except for their own agenda and damn the consequences. The government is looking into political correctness but I suspect they will find that it has been entrenched for too many years and that any radical reform will only scratch the surface.

Answer 5

Respect bro,I agree with you, England used to be the World power and any Brit should be proud of his heritage, I`m South African and I`m standing by watching a once beuatifull and rich country sink like the titanic. I say, Call a spade a spade, you might just get the right people to listen.

Answer 6

Political correctness IS making some people afraid to say what they truly think on a subject.

Luckily there are still plenty around, myself being one, who thing PC has gone way too far and basically ignore it.

And it's not just the UK, it's happening all over the world.

Answer 7

Well done, for raising the point. I do think that the voice of the ordinary bloke in the street has been forgotten with all this PC twaddle. Anyway its only laying the foundations for Bliar to get a cushy number in Europe or at UN when the gopher @ #11 kicks him out of office.

Answer 8

Arguably yes. And not just the British. The whole concept, the basis and justification for the "pluralist society" allowing and encouraging people to maintain the culture of the "old country" -- or not even theirs, but their grandparents' -- might need a re-think. The whole business of saying that assimilation and integration violate human rights.

And it's asymmetric: you don't see the source countries for migration talking about multiculturalism. Or even tolerance. Least of all predominantly or exclusively Muslim countries.

The EU has a commitment to the preservation and advancement of a common EUROPEAN CULTIURE which it neglects at its peril.

And which is good and sufficient reason to exclude Turkey from ever becoming a member.

There's more: we don't know who our friends are. "So strong is the tug of multicultural romance that it trumps even the revulsion of Western progressives at the illiberal jihadist agenda, with its homophobia, sexism, religious intolerance, and racism. Even black leaders have often voiced empathy for the enemies of Israel, as if Palestinian radicals were fellow civil-rights advocates and not chauvinists who publish racist cartoons of Condoleezza Rice."
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Answer 9

The only time you need to be afraid of being labeled a racist or homophobe is when you make statements that show you are one.

I am a brutally honest person and have been called blunt to my face many times, yet have never been called racist or homophobic.

Answer 10

Yes ! and there is a lot of people on Yahoo! Answers who are afraid no Brainwashed.... the answers I am receiving to my Question about Foreigners not speaking English in public places in Britain - is Unbelievable - One of the main problems the Security Services are having is that they cant find enough people that Speak & Write their Lingo.. I would love to know what some mad mullah was saying to me before he lit the fuse - so I would have a chance to run...