Overheard at work...

[cecilia]

KennyR wrote:
Or about PC? Well, I know in the US people have taken the whole PC thing into extremes, like branding you a Nazi if you eat a 'Chinese' and not a 'oriental meal'. Sort of like the same places took the whole lawsuit thing to extremes, too.

yeah, it's really dumb around here. it started with a bunch of "feminists" who thought they were the collective mommies of the world and wagged their fingers in everyone's faces. they actually thought if you tell people not to say "bad" words, they won't have "bad" thoughts. which is a load of cr.ap

people still have stupid, sexist, racist ideas. they just are clever enough not to say the words. but they ACT the ideas out. PC is just lying.

But if PC is the only reason I can't hear idle racist words in soaps and on general TV, then it's ok with me.

I'd rather people just said their dumb ideas. that way i can deal with it out in the open.

i'm not afraid of people saying dumb things. however tiresome it gets, it's better than repression.

[Vincent]

KennyR wrote:
About the rape thing? No.

:-o Holy shizznit!
Makes me ashamed to be Scottish :pissed:

[whabang]

KennyR wrote:
About the rape thing? No.

That's just... ...wrong! :-o
Although I don't have any facts to back it up, I belive that there is a similar situation in the rest of the western world aswell. :pissed:

[that_punk_guy]

Vincent wrote:
Makes me ashamed to be Scottish :pissed:

Nothing makes me ashamed to be English... Just as nothing makes me proud to be English (or British, or European). I was born here by chance, I feel no emotion about it one way or another. I regularly feel ashamed of humans, though. :-(

Re: PC

I'm kinda with Kenny on this one, in that people should not be referred to using racist/sexist/whatever terms when the audience is being addressed directly (e.g. a newsreader or a comedian.) That gives those terms acceptance and it quite rightly isn't allowed.

However, if you're depicting a racist character in a film, or showing documentary footage of a bigot, going out of your way to censor the words they use doesn't really acheieve much.