Are you starting to feel like you can't say anything or do anything without offending someone? This political correctness thing is insane. In the newspaper today a guy got thrown in a cell for 48 hours because he "revved his car engine in a racist way" (seriously, its in the daily mail folks, check it). It's frightening.
2006-09-18 03:07:56 · 5 answers · asked by Rich W 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Please don't take a newspaper report as being indicative of any great change in the UK way of life. The newspapers want to sell their products and often extract the 'silly element' and leave out the background. Mind you, the Mrs Blair incident this week would probably strengthen your view!
However, I don't know any Brits who worry about being overly PC in every day life - quite the oppposite in fact. And despite Finaldx's comment above, the UK is still one of the most laid back western nations around.
I was in New York on 9/11 (actually on my way to No 1 Tower), when the attack occurred, and I was in the UK on 7/7 when the London bombings took place. The difference in public reaction was very noticeable. The Brits were certainly not 'wound up' and went about their business relatively calmly.
In contrast, many New Yorkers wanted to 'nuke the Middle East' , gun club membership shot up, gun sales increased, etc.. And when the anthrax scare erupted, gas masks and Cipro sales rocketed.
Now that is what I'd call 'wound up'!!
2006-09-18 03:44:27 · answer #1 · answered by avian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get this...
According to The Guardian, during the recent French riots, a Saudi Prince with shares in News Corporation boasted to a conference in Dubai that he had phoned Rupert Murdoch and complained about Fox News describing the disturbances as “Muslim riots.” Within half an hour he said, it was changed to “civil riots.”
''French youths,'' huh? You mean Pierre and Jacques and Marcel and Alphonse? Granted that most of the "youths" are technically citizens of the French Republic, it doesn't take much time in les banlieus of Paris to discover that the rioters do not think of their primary identity as ''French'': They're young men from North Africa growing ever more estranged from the broader community with each passing year and wedded ever more intensely to an assertive Muslim identity more implacable than anything you're likely to find in the Middle East. After four somnolent years, it turns out finally that there really is an explosive ''Arab street,'' but it's in Clichy-sous-Bois.
2006-09-18 10:17:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.!!Political correctness has made common sense a thing of the past. If you catch a burglar in your house then it's best to help the poor soul by carrying your possessions to the front door lest he should trip up and hurt himself and it's you that end up in court!
2006-09-18 10:20:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The government do everything to make the lives of their citizens worse instead of better, they all need common sense classes ever six months.
2006-09-18 10:15:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of all the non-Asian, non-Arab nations, they seem to be the most tightly "wound", don't they?
2006-09-18 10:09:56 · answer #5 · answered by finaldx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋