Political correctness

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Does anyone else think that political correctness has gone mad?
I live in England which has a majority of Christian or Atheist people, yet one can no longer say Happy Christmas because it may upset people of otheer religions such as muslims, i can't understand this? In the Simpsons there are several episodes in which God is portrayed as an old guy often not in the most glamorous light and we are fine with that and find it funny, but as soon as you make a cartoon with Mohammad the entire world goes mad!
BC has been changed to BCE and AD to CE WHY, surely you should be more worried about appeasing the largest religion in the world rather than one that is only a minority in our countries and also has there own calendar?
It is mad.

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  • RoseIsabella
    9 years ago

    Find an alternate fuel source and bring Ebola to the Middle East!
    Mwahahaha!
    :-D
    It's just a joke, but I know I'll catch hate from the douchebags.
    >:-O
    *smells the red rubber bags closing in*

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  • ArmusWasTheFirstTroll
    9 years ago

    Universal rule for not being a cunt: use the golden rule until the platinum rule can be established.

    Golden rule: treat others the way you want to be treated.

    Platinum rule: treat others the way they want to be treated.

    How is this relevant to your post?
    Say Happy Holidays to strangers or people you have just met. It is universal. Once you know what winter holiday they celebrate you use that for that individual. For Jewish people say happy hanuka, if Christian, say merry Christmas. After all, when you are wishing this person a happy holiday, it is about them not you. You are wis hinges them happiness on their holiday, not yours. Whatever you celebrate is not relevant.

    As for the Mohammed drawings . . . .my lunch break is over. So . . . Sorry.

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  • disthing
    9 years ago

    No, I don't think 'political correctness' has gone mad.

    I think we're in a constant battle to improve and progress in society, and part of that is addressing inequality, intolerance and discrimination.

    Unfortunately, because people are fallible, we don't always get it right. Sometimes people misjudge the potential of something to cause offence, and - ironically - end up causing offence.

    The important thing is to remember that most of the time this oversensitivity stems from the desire to do good - to avoid hurting people. So even when it's poorly judged, the intention is positive.

    As for your experience in England - I'm also in England, and have literally never experienced people no longer saying Merry Christmas because of 'political correctness'. We have a big fat Christmas tree in the town centre every year! So not sure which shitty town or city you're in, but you may wish to move.

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    • disthing
      9 years ago

      Here's Stewart Lee talking about 'political correctness gone mad'...
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmsV1TuESrc

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        9 years ago

        Political correctness is necessary I don't disagree with that I just think it has gone too far. A professor in America used the word 'niggardly' in one of his speeches and was forced to resign. Niggardly is of saxon origin whereas niger, the route of n*****, is Greek and they have completely different meanings ooe being black and the other meaning small or puny.

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        • disthing
          9 years ago

          I don't think it's 'gone too far', I just think people make mistakes on either side of the line.

          Sometimes people will react irrationally to something they perceive as offensive which is actually perfectly innocent. It has ALWAYS been that way - this isn't some new thing. The difference is the amount of ways somebody can access potentially offensive information (and respond to said information) has massively increased - especially with the advent of the internet and social media.

          What we have to do, as ordinary, rational people, is point out when some of the general public and the media have overreacted to something. If the majority are quick to step in, we can try and stifle the irrational hysteria and media hype.

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    • Legion
      8 years ago

      It's more common in the US, "happy holidays" banners abound, people get offended if you say "Merry Christmas", people up in arms if you call someone " black" (even worse here in St Louis) , and any non friendly interaction with a black and a white person, regardless the circumstances, is automatically said that the white person committed a hate crime, yet black on black crime happens quite often, yet with the possible exception of a few in the immediate area, most people won't bat an eye. (And the crime does get bad, I've been on some jobs with my dad in North Stl, and we've ran into people stealing and selling drugs, police tape on a nearby house, and a couple incidents where people tried to break into our van while we were talking to the customer on the front porch! Lucky for us, the customer had a 12 gauge he used to scare off theives!)

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  • LifeTheRide
    9 years ago

    Yes, it has gotten rediculous. And the stuff they teach in school is outdated and incorrect.

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  • [Old Memory]
    9 years ago

    Political correctness is on a rampage. It's getting beyond a joke enirely, creating people following what is PC to appear moral only to show their false morality just because they assume that what is PC is morality, as if whatever is popular to believe when it comes to morality somehow makes you moral for abiding by those falsemoral codes.

    It sucks.

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  • sillygirl77
    9 years ago

    You can say Merry Christmas, but just don't say it to people who aren't Christian... why do you need to do that?

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    • cosmicrock
      9 years ago

      because it is a universal holiday, I don't get a holiday during Ramadan they get to express their faith why can't i express mine?

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      • sillygirl77
        9 years ago

        It's NOT a universal holiday. Many religions/people don't celebrate it. I wouldn't say happy Chanukah or Happy Ede to you... why would you say Merry Christmas to me (I'm Jewish)? I don't celebrate it nor do many people. NOT universally celebrated.

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        • disthing
          9 years ago

          You're right it's not a universal holiday, but in many countries - especially in Europe and Asia - it has essentially become a secular holiday. I'm an atheist, I celebrate Christmas, I wish people a Merry Christmas, as do the majority of atheists here in the UK and much of Western Europe.

          If you're in a country where the majority of people celebrate a holiday at a particular time of year, you can expect people to say specific greetings to you.

          For example, if I were in Israel during Hannukah, I wouldn't be surprised if people said Happy Hannukah to me, despite me not being Jewish. Would I be offended? No. I might mention that I don't celebrate it, but I wouldn't be a prick and say "Please don't say that to me!"

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          • sillygirl77
            9 years ago

            I don't celebrate Christmas. I rather someone not say merry christmas to me. If you were in Israel, I'd hope people wouldn't assume since there are multiple religions there.

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            • disthing
              9 years ago

              Sure, you'd prefer it, but you can't have everything the way you want all the time.

              If someone you didn't know wished you a Merry Christmas on the 25th of December whilst you were out walking, would you be offended? Would you say Merry Christmas back? How would you react?

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  • Crapper
    9 years ago

    It's merry Christmas

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  • Avant-Garde
    9 years ago

    Christmas isn't even a true Christian holiday. It's Pagan. Technically, anyone could celebrate it. Easter's practice of eggs dying also is Pagan. Valentine's Day, Pagan. You see the theme here? The Catholic Church, if I am not mistaken, incorporated these Pagan practices in an attempt to gain followers. Perhaps, the English should spend more time researching the origins of these holidays before they assume and resort to PC.

    With the current world issue of jihadists and ISIS, I don't blame people for not wanting offend Muslims. I remember, there was a fashion designer who, years back for a collection, put Arabic writing on the clothes. Some Muslims got very angry and she/he received death threats.

    What I don't understand is that, if people are so terrified of what Muslims are capable of, why don't they kick them out of their countries? Why don't they prevent them from settling in their countries?

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  • ArmusWasTheFirstTroll
    9 years ago

    Black are people are fine with me calling them black. The only people ever offended are non-black people. It's fucking stooooooooooopid.

    The wrong speling of stoopid was an stylistik choyce to emfasize how stoopid it is. 4 any of u grammer notsees out durr.

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  • reminiscent
    9 years ago

    Your not supposed to show an image of Mohammad. In Christianity there are images everywhere its not against the religion...so it being on a cartoon doesnt upset people.
    you should respect all religions no matter how small... you want to bully just because you have more people?

    As for Merry Christmas...if I say that to you and you get upset you have problems. If someone came up to me and told me happy hanukkah I would not be upset at all...its just someone in a good mood wishing you well...a little and petty thing to be upset over.

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    • cosmicrock
      9 years ago

      there is freedom of expression in the western world and because of that any cartoon should be allowed, it is merely expressing a point in a comic way.

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    • cosmicrock
      9 years ago

      there are so often anti-semitic cartoons in muslim countries and there are never protests and it seems that muslims have a special right in society to be offended and kidnap people, why?

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      • reminiscent
        9 years ago

        If you do not agree with something you may protest that right is not reserved for Muslims thats just silly.and what? What makes you think they have a special right to kidnap people because im pretty sure they would get arrested. =/

        Freedom of expression yes...i didnt say anything for or against I merely said you are not supposed to.

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        • cosmicrock
          9 years ago

          I don't think that they have a special right to protest but they seem to act like they do.

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          • reminiscent
            9 years ago

            Idk I see all kinds of different people protesting

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  • dom180
    9 years ago

    When you say you hate political correctness, what you mean is that you hate it when people force you to confront the fact that your opinions/behaviours are problematic as opposed to allowing you to keep pretending everything is fine. Your anger at "morality police" can only come from the fact that you know deep down your position is morally indefensible but refuse to abandon it. Classic cognitive dissonance - it's easier to lash out at the immediate external source of discomfort ("political correctness gone mad!") than it is to think introspectively.

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    • cosmicrock
      9 years ago

      I am not a closeted racist if that is what you are trying to say, I just don't understand why you now have to sing "ba ba rainbow sheep" instead of "ba ba black sheep". Now you have to say LEDC or MEDC instead of 3rd world, how many people in the 3rd world actually care and how much is it just people who think that they know what is best for the world.

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  • Allan08
    9 years ago

    I have no problem with them if they have no problem with me.

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  • GreyWulfen
    9 years ago

    I don't care about political correctness and I know of no one that really does. And offending religious extremists is a good thing imo.

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  • [Old Memory]
    9 years ago

    As a Black Jewish lesbian in a wheelchair I find this post incredibly offensive.

    You have been reported to the ADL, SPLC and ACLU.

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  • Couman
    9 years ago

    AD and BC were changed to CE and BCE because there's no reliable way to determine what date Jesus was born, if he existed at all. And just imagine, what if someone did find proof of when he was born. Chances are it wouldn't really be in 1AD so then we'd have to rewrite all our dates.

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    • cosmicrock
      9 years ago

      We know that Jesus was not born in the year 0 it was more likely 6bc. They have not changed it because of that they have changed it to Common Era and Before Common Era to avoid upsetting non-Christians who really don't care.

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