RE: UKNM: Brainstorming - PC's Next Victim

[Philip Buxton]

You didn't want to go into it - but you did didn't you..


Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 05:19:27 -0000

From: "Geoff Inns" <

geoff [dot] innsquestico [dot] co [dot] uk

>

Subject: RE: UKNM: Brainstorming - PC's Next Victim


Tim Moore said:

"We should stop trying to be Americans and f**k PC.

Political Correctness is brain facism and its offensive full stop.

If brainstorming is offensive to folks with cerabal palsy, I suggest they

change their behaviour by getting over it rather than asking me to change my

behavoir by using another term."


Yes - people are just sooo sensitive aren't they? I mean, I can't believe

language should be moderated to people's sensitivities - who gives a toss

about them? I'm me and I know what I mean.

You are treading on ground so dangerous I really don't want to go into it

for fear of the emotions it might provoke, and for which this forum is not

the place, so this will be my only posting on the subject. The more aware we

are of the effect of our language and behaviour on others the better

communicators we will all become. If you rile at the fact that someone shows

offence at something you say, even though you mean no offence, I would not

recommend anger as the best way to deal with it. Political Correctness is a

term left over from the days when Haringey council banned black bin liners

and blackboards - PC was a knee jerk reaction to the fact that the previous

two decades were basically not very pleasant if you were female, an ethnic

minority, homosexual, an immigrant or poor. progress has been made and

people are learning that to all live together a certain awareness and

consideration must proliferate. We've all grown up now.


Well, nearly.


Geoff Inns

Business Development Director

Questico UK Ltd

geoff [dot] innsquestico [dot] co [dot] uk

www.questico.co.uk


Philip Buxton

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