Some common sense at last

[brakespear]

Really? Because it seems to me that the only people saying "it's PC gone mad" are the ones who are perfectly content using slurs and categorising a whole lot of people based on a few of them.

I thought saying insensitive shit to and about people based on ridiculous assumptions was out of order.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Should have made the call on the night, pathetic needing 10 days to think it through & to state the obvious

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I remember going to school and getting caned. Is stopping that going too far too ?

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

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

Political correctness is now an industry and some people make a very nice living off the back of it. It has gone too far and we a living in a ridiculously sensitive society. Life is a school of hard knocks and public figures are there to be popped at.
I remember going to school and the teacher writing on a blackboard. We sang nursery rhymes like..." Ba Ba Black Sheep " We collected the gollies off Robertson's jam " My sister had a gollie as a toy. N---er brown was a proper colour. You gave someone a black look. You played the white man etc etc etc
All frowned upon now by those that know better.

I think you've done a relatively good job of showing how people that normally moan about the world being "too PC" just don't like the fact they can't say racist things anymore without being called a racist.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

The problem is that in my day we saw golliwogs in a similar vein to teddy bears and such like and never even considered that it could mean anything else until the PC brigade changed the focus of it. I certainly don't think we felt it meant we hated black people and wanted to make fun of them

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 place, and she meant it, I believe, as racist.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Says it all I think?

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 opinion of him has just plummeted..... or I would like to hear his rationale.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

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 place, and she meant it, I believe, as racist.

I'm 58 so our day was about the same. I wasn't aware of the Blyton reference you make but 1 racist doesn't necessarily reflect the views of the rest of us

 

[RedRob]

OMG.....this site goes from bad to unbelievable. Read the stuff YOU are posting people! - do you REALLY expect to be taken seriously? The 'school days' of some of the posters sound like child abuse to me.

 

[knocky1]

I love the racists moaning about losing their rights to cuddle and love their goliwogs. It's a cruel world.

 

[brakespear]

I think you've done a relatively good job of showing how people that normally moan about the world being "too PC" just don't like the fact they can't say racist things anymore without being called a racist.

also

 

[dazzer6666]

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

No, was (supposedly) Ok in the 70s but not now.

 

[RedRob]

I love the racists moaning about losing their rights to cuddle and love their goliwogs. It's a cruel world.

.....Imagine the kerfuffle if Paul Ince ever gets the job at The Albion

 

[dazzer6666]

.....Imagine the kerfuffle if Paul Ince ever gets the job at The Albion

Apart from him being rubbish ?

 

[RedRob]

Apart from him being rubbish ?

...being 'rubbish' has never held any prospective Albion manager back before?

 

[dazzer6666]

...being 'rubbish' has never held any prospective Albion manager back before?

Fair point well made

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

M

N---er brown was a proper colour. You gave someone a black look. You played the white man etc etc

Urmmm im not a 100% certain that N---er brown was a proper colour, I don't remember seeing it in the deluxe colour chart or it being an option in the Ford Capri back in the good old three day weeks in the 70s....

Oh and you do know playing the White Man emplies that your playing fair and any other race is cheating or not to be trusted right ! You better had not knowen that actually otherwise your comments make you out to be a moron.

 

[GT49er]

I thought saying insensitive shit to and about people based on ridiculous assumptions was out of order.

Yes it is - but that's nothing to do with political correctness, just plain good manners.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

M

Urmmm im not a 100% certain that N---er brown was a proper colour, I don't remember seeing it in the deluxe colour chart or it being an option in the Ford Capri back in the good old three day weeks in the 70s....

It was in the clothing industry/retail. I had a brown coat which was that shade.

 

[RedRob]

....Mind you, if some on here waxing lyrical about getting a 'damn good thrashing' want to relive the experience.....the Friday Ad always seems to have a few ladies advertising 'that sort of thing'!

 

[tweenster]

M

Urmmm im not a 100% certain that N---er brown was a proper colour, I don't remember seeing it in the deluxe colour chart or it being an option in the Ford Capri back in the good old three day weeks in the 70s....

It certainly was, but more 30s and 40s rather than 70s. How do you think Guy Gibson's dog got his name?