jra wrote:Guest wrote:Guest wrote:Niv wrote:I always keep an open mind with regards to issues relating to PC. Sadly, at times it can be used very much as a double-edged sword. I am very much against people using derogatory statements to insult anyone's race, colour, creed or sexuality. I do however object to some of the 'do-gooders' who use bizarre policies to further their own good, whilst not showing any regard for the opinions and feelings of the people they claim to represent.
Being Irish, it's usually a given that I'll be insulted regularly. The amusing thing is that people genuinely think they are the first ones to say what they say to me. Do I bother to say anything? No. I just usually think that their ignorance is their problem, not mine. I could stand and argue the odds with them, at the end of it, they'd still be a fecking idiot. Many may not agree, but that's their opinion. I don't have to share it.
I had a training day this week about learning disabilities that said not to challenge the term "Retarded" if used by an American doctor because apparently that is normal over there. I don't like where this is going. I work for the NHS.
Fuck, that's awful.
Retarded is a horrendous word and has been used as a slur for a very, very long time. I can't imagine it's still used in medical terminology in even America.
God help the poor bastard who ever says it in front of me, is all I'll say. It's abhorrent, on the same level as "spastic" became.
As far as the "PC" debate goes I do think there are people who use political correctness as a weapon - see Woke Twitter - but most people I see screaming about free speech do tend to be alt-right types.
Inferring somebody is a poor bastard isn't exactly very politically correct either.
Oh shove off you crashing bore.