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A serial rapist
serving a life sentence in a hospital's secure mental unit (who
escaped for the second time in three years) was apparently able to
do so as he was described as a "medium secure patient"
and, when he was transferred to another hospital for treatment,
staff did not understand the risk he posed. The inquiry report
into the incident concluded, "Consideration therefore is
required as to how we portray or use common language whilst
remaining sensitive to the patient's treatment needs." Rapist
released as staff don't understand PC language,
2 May 2008
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"As a gay man of mixed race I vehemently
oppose positive discrimination and "equal opportunity" quotas.
Apart from the fact that I find them patronising, I feel they are counter
productive and only serve to further segregate people." Paolo
Fragale, Greater Manchester
24.03.08
"I am a 16 year old student, I am half British
half Asian. PC just makes me want to leave the UK and live in New Zealand
(where I was born), it is a lot more free. The teacher stopped me saying
Brainstorm, and I used to be able to say baa baa black sheep when I was a
little kid, but not anymore. Its stupid and not funny anymore, we need
free speech here in Britain."
Keri
Todd, Leicestershire
03.03.08
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"Britain is so
afraid of looking "wrong" and "offending" people
it's becoming absolutely ridiculous! Britain is losing it's identity
& it's sense of humour." Michelle
Gallocher, Glasgow 11.04.08
"I'm
a gay man, and I would think it pointless, hypocritical, and bizarre to
ban heterosexual couples from going to their prom for example.
There are already laws against the incitement of violence. Beyond that
what do we need? The freedom of speech is not just the freedom of the
speaker, BUT THE FREEDOM OF THE LISTENER. Everyone may talk about
PC being there to protect people against being "offended"
which is so vague as to be pathologically stupid." Anonymous,
20.03.08 |
"My
parents were on a cruise in the Caribbean and, on the way, they were showing
the movie 'The Queen'. During the movie, each time the word God was
used, they bleeped it out. They even did it during the national
anthem!"
"I
was told by a prospective employer that taking me on could be difficult
as they need to up their ethnic quota. How bad is that?"
"I
overheard a teacher at my College explaining that it is non pc to
describe a female actor as an actress - as apparently the first
actresses hundreds of years ago were actually prostitutes. How many
people know that, and how many actresses care?" |
Sir,
In his letter (March 7), Roscoe Howells very amusingly satirises the
politically correct world in which we all find ourselves living at
the minute. Indeed, a chairman of a meeting should be quite offended
to be called a chair, as this would indicate that they could easily
be sat on! In the same vein, we have heard tales of ‘manholes’
being re-named ‘access holes, ‘ploughman’s lunches’ being
changed to the more ‘gender neutral’ title ‘ploughperson’s
lunches’ and ‘blackboards’ being re-named ‘chalkboards.’
This begs the question, whatever next? The ‘The Tenby
Non-Observer’ in case the term ‘Observer’ offends those who
can’t see?
John
Midgley Co-author of the Politically Correct Scrapbooks in the Tenby
Observer. |