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Agreed. I was just trying to make the point that he knows from personal experience what "discrimination" is. I think the main point is that the words offended and offence - as in take offence - could cover a multitude of sins.

Fair enough.

Stephen Fry would probably say that there is "offended" and "offended". I remember his episode of "Who do you think you are", where he discovered that members of his family had been removed from Vienna to concentration camps. And if he doesn't think there is "offended" and "offended", my...

I don't know what you mean by "in my day", but I am 61 and well remember collecting Golliwog badges and so on, and not as a child associating golliwogs with anything racist. But then you realise that Enid Blyton wrote in her Noddy books about where the golliwogs live being a dangerous and nasty...

What's that got to do with it. Totally separate subject not at all related.

I agree that political correctness has gone too far, and that the Alex Salmond effigy thing is all a bit silly, but I don't think you have chosen very good examples - particularly on the Golliwog front.