Political Correctness
Aug 28th 2007, 8:08 am
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Aug 28th 2007, 8:55 am
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Re: Political Correctness
The worst thing about the overly PC movement (and the anti-PC movement) is that the genuinely useful aspects of it get lumped in with the 'vertically challenged' aspects.
Aug 28th 2007, 9:06 am
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Re: Political Correctness
Yeah - I think you need to look back at what the UK was like from the 50's up to the early 90's to realise how necessary it was to make efforts to create a multi-cultural society. While there are still the odd flare-ups, the racial divide is nothing like what it used to be.
Aug 28th 2007, 9:09 am
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Re: Political Correctness
Yeah - I think you need to look back at what the UK was like from the 50's up to the early 90's to realise how necessary it was to make efforts to create a multi-cultural society. While there are still the odd flare-ups, the racial divide is nothing like what it used to be.
Aug 28th 2007, 9:13 am
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Re: Political Correctness
Yeah, but Alf Garnett was a total scream. I heard an interview with Warren Mitchell on R4 - he (I think rightly) claimed that the show was actually anti-racist because Alf is a laughable character. The audience don't empathise with him - he shows his own attitudes to be absurd.
Aug 28th 2007, 9:25 am
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Re: Political Correctness
PCness exists, but it's exaggerated and used to strike fear into the Daily Mail and Sun readership about how our beloved country is changing because of all the fuzzy-wuzzys coming in.
As for crocs, they look better than flip-flops on men, in my opinion. And they ARE comfy. Only shallow people put astheatics above comfort. Which is why they are all in Dubai.
As for crocs, they look better than flip-flops on men, in my opinion. And they ARE comfy. Only shallow people put astheatics above comfort. Which is why they are all in Dubai.
Aug 28th 2007, 9:28 am
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Re: Political Correctness
PCness exists, but it's exaggerated and used to strike fear into the Daily Mail and Sun readership about how our beloved country is changing because of all the fuzzy-wuzzys coming in.
As for crocs, they look better than flip-flops on men, in my opinion. And they ARE comfy. Only shallow people put astheatics above comfort. Which is why they are all in Dubai.
As for crocs, they look better than flip-flops on men, in my opinion. And they ARE comfy. Only shallow people put astheatics above comfort. Which is why they are all in Dubai.
Aug 28th 2007, 9:52 am
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Re: Political Correctness
PCness exists, but it's exaggerated and used to strike fear into the Daily Mail and Sun readership about how our beloved country is changing because of all the fuzzy-wuzzys coming in.
As for crocs, they look better than flip-flops on men, in my opinion. And they ARE comfy. Only shallow people put astheatics above comfort. Which is why they are all in Dubai.
As for crocs, they look better than flip-flops on men, in my opinion. And they ARE comfy. Only shallow people put astheatics above comfort. Which is why they are all in Dubai.
Aug 28th 2007, 10:34 am
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Re: Political Correctness
If they're green or yellow or something, then I agree. I've got a black pair. They look fine. But what looks fine is subjective, of course.
Aug 28th 2007, 10:36 am
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Aug 28th 2007, 10:40 am
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