Has political correctness actually gone mad?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ent-for-wanting-to-give-alms-to-the-oppressed


An 11-year-old primary school pupil was referred to the government’s controversial counter-radicalisation Prevent programme after a teacher mistook the word “alms” for “arms” during a classroom discussion.

The case has similarities to others that have hit the headlines including a nursery worker thinking a four-year-Muslim child had drawn a picture of his father with a cooker bomb when he was referring to a cucumber and a 10-year-old Muslim boy who misspelled the word “terraced” as “terrorist” to describe the kind of house he lived in.
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Jippy said:
Surely this would all have been easily avoidable if the teacher just said 'it's pronounced like this, not like the offensive word'.

Geography teacher faces investigation for using N-word while explaining pronunciation of the country Niger

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ord-speaking-pronunciation-country-Niger.html
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I was just reading through this article and I think I agree. I'm not sure where the line is drawn regarding what's considered offensive, but a more sensitive and considerate approach would have been to do so without referencing the other word the way the teacher did.

berbatrick said:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ent-for-wanting-to-give-alms-to-the-oppressed
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I'm surprised something like that escalated to that extent, because it sounds a little too ridiculous to be of substance. 11 year olds radicalised and campaigning to provide arms to the oppressed is a little out there.
 
Not sure if this best here or the Brexit thread. 'These days, if you say you're English...'

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Whiteness survey? :confused:

Ahh, thanks Google. So the usual, people don't like being told they have benefited from centuries of systemic racism.
 
Jippy said:
Yeah I've never been asked to partake in a 'whiteness' survey.

EDIT: So there's seven lines on the 'whiteness' survey and then a stack of backstory on the sexual assault issues plaguing the charity. tad sensationalist.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9739385/Oxfam-worker-says-feels-attack-white.html
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Hmmm, yeah those sexual misconduct/abuse of power things occurring in an African country by Oxfam workers would definitely require that sort of 'training'.
 
its stuff like this that makes it hard to like the England team at times

the players are quite likeable these days but the fans are still cnuts
 
Tarrou said:
its stuff like this that makes it hard to like the England team at times

the players are quite likeable these days but the fans are still cnuts
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Some of the hardcore members are for sure. They're the ones that boo the national anthems and taking the knee. Thankfully with a larger crowd yesterday the boos for taking the knee were easily drowned out.
 
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Seems like excellent fodder for right wingers to go crazy over even more, when they already have gone nuts over critical race theory stuff.

Don't you think left in america won't be able to counter this given the tip toeing around any perceived reform in name of diversity or social reform. What are your thoughts on effort by some to get African American vernacular English accepted as being as grammertically correct as standard one?
 
crappycraperson said:
What are your thoughts on effort by some to get African American vernacular English accepted as being as grammertically correct as standard one?
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In formal writing, or? It's already as grammatically correct as any other English dialect as a spoken vernacular. It also has rules and conventions like any other, despite some people's beliefs that it's basically a free-for-all.
 
This guy must be making some serious dough if he's shelled out £175k on surgery.

British influencer who identifies as 'transracial' slams 'woke' backlash over latest eye surgery to appear more Korean - but admits their family stopped speaking to them following 18 operations to look like a K-pop star

'People are so quick to judge these days, it's fine to identify as 100 different genders, it's fine to identify as an alien if you want to, so why can't I identify as Korean?
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/...ms-backlash-latest-surgery-appear-Korean.html
 
Tarrou said:
someones setup a crowd-fund now to show the German girl that not all Brits are assholes, some are stupid too

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfun...g4i6TQrENmXrhJHMMIhC5ak8JiClcQD8iwZ0Bi3APsr9Q
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That didn't go so well for poor Joel.

Someone dug up fairly innocent tweets about his own kids and has labelled him a nonce. Cue massive twitter pile on, someone even faked an xhamster profile that claimed he liked them 'the younger the better' and he's being memed to death with nonce-themed stuff.

He's had to put all of his socials on private.It's the maddest thing I've seen in a while.

 
hobbers said:
Ignoring the out of context and fake accounts, some of his actual posts are creepy as feck.

Taking photos of random women he sees out and about and uploading them with tags like "stunning lady spotted in cafe". Maybe not a pedo but ticks the stalky weirdo box.

But you do just have to laugh at the giant car crash that is social media.
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:lol:That reminds me of a Goat thread on here.
 
Jippy said:
This guy must be making some serious dough if he's shelled out £175k on surgery.

British influencer who identifies as 'transracial' slams 'woke' backlash over latest eye surgery to appear more Korean - but admits their family stopped speaking to them following 18 operations to look like a K-pop star

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/...ms-backlash-latest-surgery-appear-Korean.html
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Is that all you get for $175K?

And I'd suspect that people who have gender identities other than CIS might be a bit miffed at him.

I'm sure people do identify as ethnicities or races other than purely their genetic makeup but I'd guess that would be normally be due to some sort of relationship with that culture or ethnicity e.g. an adopted kid raised in a family with a different ethnicity or race than their biological parents. Not some kid who loves K Pop to the point of (surely) requiring psychological help.
 
What a bizarre thing to do, I'd love to be a fly on the wall at that brainstorming meeting.
 
hobbers said:
Ignoring the out of context and fake accounts, some of his actual posts are creepy as feck.

Taking photos of random women he sees out and about and uploading them with tags like "stunning lady spotted in cafe". Maybe not a pedo but ticks the stalky weirdo box.

But you do just have to laugh at the giant car crash that is social media.
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That apparently was a joke as it was his wife in the photo. It wasn't a random woman.
 
Wibble said:
I'm sure people do identify as ethnicities or races other than purely their genetic makeup but I'd guess that would be normally be due to some sort of relationship with that culture or ethnicity e.g. an adopted kid raised in a family with a different ethnicity or race than their biological parents.
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The only problem in the whole thing is the self-identifying bit.

I definitely considered myself a Kiwi after living there for five years. In all of the ways I’d always felt constrained by the idea of being ‘British’, I felt an absolute kinship with New Zealand the place, and as a people. It wasn’t some huge adjustment. It’s not some outrageous shift of being in the way that assimilating into Japan obviously. But I’ve kept a flavour of the place in me. ‘She’ll be right’ is an attitude as well as a saying. I changed with it and now have a personality that’s changed for good.

What this person has done however, is conflate character and ethnicity. They are changing their face to look like someone of Korean ethnicity. Honestly I don’t know how it’s not regarded in the same way as non-racial Blackface is. I think I can stand by that as a comment. Like, just be Korean. Learn the language. Move there. Live a Korean life. There are thousands of white, black, whatever, Koreans. They don’t all look like BTS. To suggest the face makes them Korean is kind of racist in itself. I dont think you get to wrap that up as self-identifying and claim to be persecuted.
 


Comic books trying to be overly P.C. or a welcome addition of diversity and inclusivity to this universe?
 
If there's one character that we all knew was political rather than heterosexual, then surely it would be Robin.
 
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