Things that really .. really piss me off: part IV
Well, it's that time again!
I know I've covered the topic before, but political correctness is just filth.
What few and fleeting little reasons there might have once been for its otherwise meaningless existence have all but evaporated into the ether.
Political correctness is a menace.
Be afraid. Be very afraid...
posted by Wayne Smallman at Wednesday, March 16, 2005
18 Comments:
Political correctness (PC) is a form of hypocrisy. People do not want to discuss uncomfortable issues, so they brush them under the rug, and put up a signboard of PC. Many people get offended too easily when faced with facts... and that is supposed to be damaging to society, hence PC!
I'd like to invite you down to a meeting. If you come into the
Coalition of those Uncomfortable with Neo-conservative Treatises,
I'll direct you to the
Committee for the Logging of Insulting Terms and Opinions and their Removal Into Secrecy.
You might even enjoy yourself!
However, on the other hand....
The problem is that most of us, normal, sensible, non-PC people aren't offended, and so don't care. Whereas the PC brigade 'Care'. Apathy loses, everytime.
Hell, I don't know if I can bring myself to care enough to complain about it.
Yet another term that law, government and media have pushed down our throats simply to have another means of hiding from the truth.
Smells very similar to another word - censorship. They just needed to call it something else.
I seem to have touched a raw nerve with everyone .. cool!
No such reprieve, I'm afraid!
And I'm sure the merry band of British readers will attest to that.
However, because of the very, very negative press in recent times, political correctness has -- like a disease -- had to evolve.
Now, political correctness is to be found in such issues as health & safety.
Now it's no longer safe for kids to play certain games, because they're either unfair or are to physical.
Only this past week, a local council has laid down the headstones in a church yard, because of the fear that they might fall over and injure someone .. I kid you not!
I don't like the way people who are part of a certain group are allowed to use words that are deemed derogatory if used by others.
Although, being physically disabled I do get to call people "spazmo".
:^D
I never really did the calling names thing, much.
Being much taller than most people, and having a second name like Smallman means you develop an acute sense of injustice very early on in life.
However, disabilities are a good case in point. Yet another local council has been in the news, recently.
They've had to close all of their public toilets because they do not meet with the new accessibility legislation.
This particular council did have as much time as all of the other councils to make the required changes to meet with the new laws, and then failed to do so for a number of reasons, not least the expense.
But to close the toilets to everyone is just lunacy!
I mean, what's going to happen? Would someone in a wheelchair suddenly fall into a huge chasm? Would they become lost?
No!
Everyone looses out, which is just wholesale madness.
There were even complaints that not enough regional country parks were accessible to people with various disabilities, specifically highlighting people in wheelchairs and motorised wheelchairs.
I think if we take a step back and look at this, we can see that while there may well be room for provision for people with a variety of disabilities, so that they can access certain areas, there are also practical problems that, if addressed in favour of the physically disabled, would impair or otherwise lower the quality of the experience for the able-bodied.
In the cold light of day, there are far fewer disabled people than there are able people. Many of these country parks, managed woodlands and forests simply do not have the means nor the funds to make the necessary changes.
If I must be facetious -- an I hope Tim will forgive me, and maybe even see the lighter side -- we can't exactly fit a fuckin' stair lift to every tree in sight!
I have a lot of admiration for people with any physical disability.
I lost a tooth recently, and I now feel incomplete.
To loose the freedom of my physical mobility would be something I'm not sure I could deal with.
But if these draconian laws persist with their appetite for the closure of public facilities and their interference and deliberate obstruction, I can only see the disabled becoming vilified by the larger public, vastly off-setting whatever right-minded and fair gains and provisions might be made for them...
I agree with you that political correctness has become fairly ridiculous - but I also think there are a few very extreme examples, some of which are quoted here, which aren't necessarily representative of the whole situation - and that's why they make the news.
Also - at the risk of de-cloaking my second name is quite similar to yours - my dad really hates it!
I'm intrigued.
Reveal more .. so to speak...
shan't!
Playing hard to get, eh?
Ye little minx, you!
Right .. the game is on, my dear...
you won't win!
I'm a patient man.
I'll bide my time...
[He growls with a sinister, yet soft tone, sat in the shroud of a darkened room, quietly, methodically scouring the world wide web]
Oh yes! I will know all things Zuzula...
whatever ;)
but if you do figure me out please don't blow my cover on t'interweb. i'd have to give it all up :(
I do agree that we can't "fit a stairlift to every tree in sight", and indeed we shouldn't - if we disabled people could get everywhere that you perambulators can then we'd have nothing to complain about and will have lost the moral and sympathetic high ground we so love having. Next thing you know they'll be stopping my disability living allowance and I wouldn't be able to afford my dru... erm, I mean my life-saving medication.
And you two: get a room!
Whatever do you mean?
Scandalous!
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