I posted a joke about Liverpool. I thought about it carefully. I'm from liverpool and said so before the joke,
The very first reply said it was racist so i pulled the joke immediately for fear of anyone else saying so and mistaking me for a racist.
I genuinely believe this joke was not racist.
racism is a real problem, i agree. But political correctness is stiffling free speech and individualism.
do you agree ?
2007-01-23 21:53:00 · 15 answers · asked by Michael H 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
See, things like DollsFace saying if i'm worried about freespeech then maybe i need to check my "prejudices"
It seems to me that even without knowing what i would say you are happy to suggest i have prejudices.....strange that.
2007-01-23 22:20:48 · update #1
i agree completely, political correctness is the poison that is killing freedom in the west.
When someone is actually harmed by the words or actions of another for any reason then there is a problem, however political correctness tells us that if a person even thinks they are harmed then there is a problem.
Someone is always offended by something, nothing can be said in any context anymore without someone getting upset.
People need to grow a thicker skin and political correctness needs to be exposed for the bull **** that it is.
2007-01-23 22:02:05 · answer #1 · answered by Malikail 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Why don't you share the joke with us? Just because you don't think it was racist, doesn't mean other people won't find it so. And as for political correctness, it has been deliberately blown out of all proportion by right wing tabloids like the Daily Mail. They publish all these trite stories about so-called "political correctness gone mad", but if you actually bother to do some research you find that a lot of stories have virtually no substance to them.
Political correctness does NOT stifle free speech. People have just as much right to be offended by the things you say as you have a right to say them. Just deal with it.
2007-01-23 22:07:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. I have no truck with ethnic slurs, but we have fallen off some sort of deep end here. Sorry, boys and girls, but "blind," "deaf," "mute," "retarded," and "crippled" are still part of my speech (and I'm a nurse), and I dare say many others' speech as well. For heaven's sake, even DEAF PEOPLE call themselves deaf! I'm still trying to figure out when we became such a world of thin-skinned crybabies, so afraid of words.
When you have to think about what you say that much, in order not to offend some knee-jerk liberal (or conservative) kook, you're engaging in thought control. Poor George Orwell's prophecy has come true: The Thought Police are among us, and they're listening for Political Incorrectness. At least they can't arrest us (yet).
There are people who believe we should completely neuter speech. Talk about killing discourse. So, by their reasoning -- which is questionable at best -- that round metal plate in the street should be a "person-hole cover." Superman becomes Superperson. A he-man is an it-person. A man's man is a person's person. We should be singing "For It's a Jolly Good Person."
Ridiculous.
2007-01-23 22:21:08 · answer #3 · answered by link955 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Funnily enough, I got a nuresery rhyme book for my daughter at xmas and it had 'ba ba blacksheep' in it despite all the rumours that it was banned. This has got me thinking about so called 'political correctness' - does it really exist?
What I mean is, is blinkered self-righteousness by powers that be not the problem? People trying to make 'their' difference and 'their' mark on society by using a vehicle which makes them appear they are doing the right thing? I.E. Political correctness does not exist, but egotistical pr1cks do.
2007-01-23 22:31:27 · answer #4 · answered by PvteFrazer 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree with your statement.
Since when does "Liverpudlian" constitute a race, anyway?
Political correctness, for a large part at least, is just a mask for people to hide their bigoted sentiments behind anyway: the use of "correct" terminology allows people to feel they're doing their part whilst their core attitude remains unchanged.
If we did more to combat the causes of those attitudes, instead of wagging our fingers at those who express them in carelessly worded statements, we would achieve more meaningful results.
At present we find ourselves reviewing every statement we make in case of accidentally offending someone, (rarely anyone with a "right" to feel offended) a world where blackboards can only be called chalkboards, and religious extremism is protected by law from critical voices of reason.
Freedom of speech is undoubtedly the most valuable and yet the most intangible of rights: it is whittled down to the extent that one day we will wake up and it will be gone.
Which will be "doubleplus ungood" in the parlance of Orwell's dystopian vision...
2007-01-23 22:18:41 · answer #5 · answered by Benny Blanco 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree with you. It is getter harder for people to be themselves and say what they feel that is general to them for fear of offending someone. There is a fine line between saying things and abuse. I do feel that in this day and age people are more sensitive and some PC has got totally out of hand. The world is made up of different people and individuality. I know I am not a totally diplomatic person and I feel afraid sometimes to tell things as it is from my point of view for fear of upsetting someone. To me these days a lot of people just discard others on a whim of a sentence e.t.c. . We all need to toughen up in the real world, I think
2007-01-23 22:08:45 · answer #6 · answered by See it as 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think this PC stuff is way out off line now due to the media if it wasn't reported like the plague no-one would care at all.kids being rude I call it,Its as good as an asbo now.street cred.Why all this fuss about jade goody might set her career going again if she ever had one gonna post that as a question when did jade get celeb status and how.
2007-01-23 22:16:11 · answer #7 · answered by mikey_mossom 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People lump too many things under the PC banner. There have always been people who are too sensitive about issues and anyone who is against racism, anti-homosexuality and misogyny gets lumped into the same grey mass.
My take on it is that if you can defend your joke then post it. The people who are complaining could well be the ones making fools of themselves.
2007-01-23 22:08:30 · answer #8 · answered by Stammerman! 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I examine it and then I re-examine it and that i'd examine it lower back. each and every time I examine it I type of get a diverse meaning out of it yet i like it. that is somewhat lengthy- i like various the metaphors you employ yet I do imagine that is somewhat lengthy. Edit it somewhat -- or no longer-- it is your poem or perchance extra of an ode?
2016-12-02 23:48:20 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would think you are perfectly entitled to post a joke about your own home town. the world is full of fannies sticking their oars in and giving you their unvalued opinion, you should post it and be damned
2007-01-23 22:04:51 · answer #10 · answered by Troubled Joe(the ghost of) 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋