I wanted to post this in the thread about the Best Man speech but it got me thinking about Political Correctness in a broader sense, and how OTT it's been for quite some time now.
Isn't freedom of speech available to all (so long as you don't insult religion any more!) ?
I mean, I'm white, male and Irish. Can I get 'offended' every time someone makes a joke about one of those things ?
IMO, people are too quick to find something that 'offends' them....whether they really care about it or not. You can't call a person a 'spastic' or 'Mentally handicapped' anymore, it's 'intellectually challenged'. Well correct me if I'm wrong, but the first 2 terms weren't applied originally as offensive, merely descriptive, so that people had a point of reference. The nom-de-jour is the same, until that's adopted as an offensive taunt in the playground and off we go again. Besides, a comedy show referred to in the link posted by Complainer was called Spastic Fantastic. Is Irony not offensive, or is it offensive for me to utter the name of that show aloud, because I'm not a spastic (oops, sorry, intellectually challenged)?
Some of the moral outrage posted in the comments on that link are frankly (excuse the pun) pathetic. "how can it be legal?" was one I saw. Sheesh.
Has anyone seen "Delirious", or "Bigger, Blacker & Uncut" or any of Richard Pryors stuff ? Which brings me onto the hilarious uproar and cries of 'racism' that greeted the release of Blazing Saddles (which was written by a black man and a jew).
Comedy is about making people laugh, end of. If you don't find it funny, then switch off, or leave. Don't get offended by what someone said and sit and wait to hear more, so that you may be offended more and have more to shout about.
The Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross voicemail for Andrew Sachs drew thousands of complaints from people. Only a handful were from people who actually heard it. The rest were from people who heard about it!!
PC is a pathetic excuse for people to have a soapbox to complain about their feelings being hurt about absolutely anything. all the while diluting the importance of someone having a valid, weighted, reason to be genuinely offended by something that most people would be.
It's not far off when the likes of being called a Jackeen or Culchie will be deemed as offensive as the 'N...' word.
That, to me, is ridiculous.
<Stands back while the multitudes are offended by every word of what a thick white male Irish culchie wrote>
Isn't freedom of speech available to all (so long as you don't insult religion any more!) ?
I mean, I'm white, male and Irish. Can I get 'offended' every time someone makes a joke about one of those things ?
IMO, people are too quick to find something that 'offends' them....whether they really care about it or not. You can't call a person a 'spastic' or 'Mentally handicapped' anymore, it's 'intellectually challenged'. Well correct me if I'm wrong, but the first 2 terms weren't applied originally as offensive, merely descriptive, so that people had a point of reference. The nom-de-jour is the same, until that's adopted as an offensive taunt in the playground and off we go again. Besides, a comedy show referred to in the link posted by Complainer was called Spastic Fantastic. Is Irony not offensive, or is it offensive for me to utter the name of that show aloud, because I'm not a spastic (oops, sorry, intellectually challenged)?
Some of the moral outrage posted in the comments on that link are frankly (excuse the pun) pathetic. "how can it be legal?" was one I saw. Sheesh.
Has anyone seen "Delirious", or "Bigger, Blacker & Uncut" or any of Richard Pryors stuff ? Which brings me onto the hilarious uproar and cries of 'racism' that greeted the release of Blazing Saddles (which was written by a black man and a jew).
Comedy is about making people laugh, end of. If you don't find it funny, then switch off, or leave. Don't get offended by what someone said and sit and wait to hear more, so that you may be offended more and have more to shout about.
The Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross voicemail for Andrew Sachs drew thousands of complaints from people. Only a handful were from people who actually heard it. The rest were from people who heard about it!!
PC is a pathetic excuse for people to have a soapbox to complain about their feelings being hurt about absolutely anything. all the while diluting the importance of someone having a valid, weighted, reason to be genuinely offended by something that most people would be.
It's not far off when the likes of being called a Jackeen or Culchie will be deemed as offensive as the 'N...' word.
That, to me, is ridiculous.
<Stands back while the multitudes are offended by every word of what a thick white male Irish culchie wrote>