Ok, now this is just going too far.

[Skaadi]

I've never really cared about political correctness before, for some things, but I just saw this on the news.

In Australian schools, and elsewhere, there's a very good possibility these everyday things will now be called:

Whiteboard: Pen Board

Children can no longer be called 'good boy' or 'good boy', they shall now be called 'good child'.

Pics of superheroes are no longer allowed, as they may send a message to some children that they are 'superor' to other children.

At a zoo, fairy penguins were renamed 'little penguins', as not to offend the gay community, but was changed back when the gays protested.

I'll post some more if I can remember them.

 

[Raziaar]

Whiteboard: Pen Board

Can they not call chalkboards blackboards?

But that is some really stupid shit. :-/

 

[Cormeh]

"Baa baa black sheep" is forbidden in nurseries now. :|

 

[Raziaar]

"Baa baa black sheep" is forbidden in nurseries now. :|

WTF, WHY!?

Black sheep have always been the cool sheep.

They're white supremacists for banning black sheep!

 

[Ren.182]

Can they not call chalkboards blackboards?

But that is some really stupid shit. :-/

I don't think it's "right" to say blackboard now either...

And our little sheep is known as baa baa rainbow sheep. It doesn't even sound right. Lets just ruin an age old nursery rythme for some people that got offended when they heard it. -_-

 

[Cormeh]

It's just a pathetic attempt to show how PC the U.K. is and all of that nonsense. I mean, I'm not a racist, not at all - but all of this pish is just well.... stupid.

 

[Jangle]

I don't think it's "right" to say blackboard now either...

I just don't get the blackboard thing. It's called a blackboard because it is black. I don't get how that can offend anybody.

 

[Raziaar]

I just don't get the blackboard thing. It's called a blackboard because it is black. I don't get how that can offend anybody.

Let's ban offensive colors so people can't use them!

Black? Gone... white? Gone... brown? Gone...

Green? Aliens might get offended. Gone...

 

[Sulkdodds]

But often people call a whiteboard a blackboard out of habit. But nobody cares.

1. In banning the rhyme 'bah bah black sheep' you are actually being incredibly racist to try and whitewash the black sheep out. Not to mention the fact that the nursery rhyme explicitly states that the black sheep carries 'three bags full' of wool - which is quite a lot. He's obviously got some virtue.

Children can no longer be called 'good boy' or 'good boy', they shall now be called 'good child'.

Whaaaaa? That doesn't make any sense. If the kid is a boy why are you not allowed to say 'boy'?

Of course, a lot of this stuff will never be followed, let alone enforced.

 

[Cormeh]

We're not exactly on the extremes of Big Ron here.

The nursery rhyme thing is apparently so kids are all about equality from an early age. That should be up to the parents as far as I can see.

 

[KagePrototype]

1. In banning the rhyme 'bah bah black sheep' you are actually being incredibly racist to try and whitewash the black sheep out. Not to mention the fact that the nursery rhyme explicitly states that the black sheep carries ''three bags full' of wool - which is quite a lot. He's obviously got some virtue.

But the black sheep is the one carrying the wool, he is the white sheep's slave; are you so blind to the lies and hatred your government is propagating as to accept and embrace this stereotype as common sense!?!?! X_X

/coffee

 

[Raziaar]

Wikipedia. See... it seems to be stupid white people that have a problem with the nursery rhyme, so afraid to be considered racist. <rolls his eyes>

In 1999, guidelines from Birmingham City Council in England suggested that the rhyme should not be taught in schools because it was seen as racially negative and could cause offense. These guidelines were dropped by the council early in 2000 when coloured parents described the advice as "ridiculous" [1].

 

[Reaktor4]

right wing media have blown this stuff out of proportion.

coloured parents

thats racist.

 

[drunkymonkey]

It's just a pathetic attempt to show how PC the U.K. is and all of that nonsense. I mean, I'm not a racist, not at all - but all of this pish is just well.... stupid.

We're talking about Oz land here though.

 

[Cormeh]

That too!

I know that, I'm just using an example. Commonwealth and all that remember.

 

[Danimal]

Can they not call chalkboards blackboards?

But that is some really stupid shit. :-/

I've only seen one blackboard in my time during education. Probably because it's black.

And yes, Bah, Bah, Black Sheep is being changed along with those penguin names.

 

[Raziaar]

I've only seen one blackboard in my time during education. Probably because it's black.

And yes, Bah, Bah, Black Sheep is being changed along with those penguin names.

you've only seen one chalkboard before?

What do you people use over there in schools? Those whiteboards(OH ****ING GOD, EXCUSE ME, I meant to say PEN BOARD!) where you write with a marker?

 

[Danimal]

Yes, we use pen boards. btw, due to newly passed laws I can no longer call you a cow, only a bull.

 

[Raziaar]

Yes, we use pen boards. btw, due to newly passed laws I can no longer call you a cow, only a bull.

Can you call someone a steer?

 

[Remus]

Black boards, white boards, pen boards whatever. I don't know how it is where you live but in my country in all schools we use black boards (yes because they really are black) and we write on them with chalk. Anyway here we just call them boards plain and simple, without any of those things.

 

[el Chi]

At a zoo, fairy penguins were renamed 'little penguins', as not to offend the gay community, but was changed back when the gays protested.

I'm all for political correctness but sometimes it's extremely patronising, and basically insulting.
If I was gay, I would've been pissed off at this display of "Oh no, the gays are just so easily insulted - whatever shall we do?"

I'm epileptic, and the idea that people ought to use "mind-map" because I'm just so f*cking precious that "brain storm" might send me into flurries of tears at the injustice of it all makes me sick into my own scorn.
I swear to God, if I ever meet the person who coined that phrase (I would place good money on their not being epileptic) I'm going to strap them down and force feed them my entire month's supply of medication in one go. I doubt it would do them much harm, but they taste a bit like dry vaseline, so a few hundred of those in one go should make them feel nearly as sick as I do every time I hear that loathesome phrase used without a hint of irony.
Oh yeah, I'd give them a thorough kicking too.
F*ckers.

Maybe the next time I hear "mind map", I'll fake a seizure just to show them that now that phrase has negative connotations with epilepsy they'll have to come up with a new, even more retarded one.
"Idea platter" or some such bollocks.

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

This is all ridiculous - you cannot get offended on behalf of someone else. Christ.

 

[Reaktor4]

yes you can.

 

[Laivasse]

I'm epileptic, and the idea that people ought to use "mind-map" because I'm just so f*cking precious that "brain storm" might send me into flurries of tears at the injustice of it all makes me sick into my own scorn.

I never even made the connection. You live and learn...and then stop wanting to live.

Most of these schemes are cooked up by middle class whiteys who've never even spoken to a black person, or an epileptic person, in their lives but who are terrified on being called out on that fact.

What next, you can't say 'meeting' cos it'll offend veggies? You can't use the term 'PC' to mean politically correct 'cos it'll offend Mac users?

 

[el Chi]

I never even made the connection. You live and learn...and then stop wanting to live.

That's precisely the problem - most people would never make the connection until someone else pointed it out, and even when they do, most people simply do not care.

I reckon you can get offended on someone else's behalf - for example, if I heard someone making some racist comments, I wouldn't say "Well, I'm glad I'm not who they're talking about." You'd get get pissed off at the person being such a retard.

There was a primary school where they banned Baa Baa Black Sheep. Granted it is based on slavery, but the fact is that none of the kids were perceiving it as racist and certainly not as an endorsement of slavery. They just thought it was about sheep.
The black parents got very annoyed indeed and I believe the school changed its policy of being condescending wankers "Oh no - all black people will be offended at the slightest mention of the word black!"

There's been a kerfuffle in Bristol recently about naming the new riverside shopping arcade "Merchants' Wharf" or something. Bristol had a big role in the British slave trade and, of course, the words "merchant" and "trader" etc. should thus be banished from the Bristolian lexicon.
Normal people would hear that name and think "Merhants = shop owners = shopping acade. Hmmm - I see what they did there. Clever name."

 

[Raziaar]

Maybe the next time I hear "mind map", I'll fake a seizure just to show them that now that phrase has negative connotations with epilepsy they'll have to come up with a new, even more retarded one.
"Idea platter" or some such bollocks.

What about "thought shower"? <shudders> Lets all have a thought shower, to see what ideas we can come up with on how to solve that rediculous mind-map situation!

Ugh... you're right. They're stupid phrases.

 

[el Chi]

Nah, "thought shower" sounds like "golden shower" and that might upset the piss fetishists.
And so the world progresses.

 

[Shippi]

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[UltimaApocalypse]

African Americans?

But that list is ****ed up. Seriously, no picture of superheros because they make children think they are superior to each other?


D:

 

[Danimal]

That's right, fellow human being who lives on milky way on Earth.

 

[15357]

lololol Lucky for us, we have absolutely NO political correctness at all. I'm surprised that there aren't people in Africa/Southeast Asia protesting against us.

 

[CrazyJeepDriver]

Yeah, I was just watching that, WTF
Morons with their political correctness.

Apparently "All the Kings horses and all the Kings men" in Humpty Dumpty has to be changed to avoid offending feminists.

 

[Danimal]

Yeah I was told about that today by a friend:

"All the kings men and women"

 

[Unimita]

But presumeably all the King's men are Medieval soldiers, and if so, there would be no women. This'll now offend historians, expect protests at the British Museum.

 

[drunkymonkey]

What the hell...

Oh and which term is polictically correct for black people now? It used to be 'coloured', but I've heard that we're not allowed to say that any more and they should be referred to as 'black'.

It's ridiculous... in a few years I bet we won't be allowed to refer to a person as male or female anymore. :|

Well, what if the person looks like a bloke and a man at the same time? Like um... Anne Widdecombe?

 

[baron insig]

i think they shoudl just **** of get over it and be shot.

no one is the same!! so why make it out like they are! you et thick kids you get clever kids, weak kids and strong kids, gernerally thick ones are strong weak are clever! its how the world balances everything the ****out!

**** of u politically correct equality nazias#sSS!

[/rant]

oh yeah you cant call the queen , queen anymore becuase that makes out that she is different and would make all women pissed off that tehy arent allwoed to be called queen

i am officially politically incorrect. and never again will be the opposite.

i will voice my own views. as long as i deem them not mean.

 

[ComradeBadger]

Yeah, I was just watching that, WTF
Morons with their political correctness.

Apparently "All the Kings horses and all the Kings men" in Humpty Dumpty has to be changed to avoid offending feminists.

As a Historian I am incredibly offended by this anachronistic act.


:|

 

[15357]

No matter what you do, someone will be offended.

 

[Danimal]

I take offence to that!

 

[15357]

I take offence that you take offence to this!