To find it quite refreshing when someone is politically incorrect?

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I do find it refreshing, I don't mean when they are a complete arsehole, just when they don't tread on eggshells, aibu?

How politically incorrect? Saying something that brings the room to a silence in shock, or saying something that everyone else wants to say but is afraid to?

You mean, you like to hear a bit of racism now and then?

Long it doesn't have to be racist to be politically incorrect, don't be an ass.

It depends on whether you think being "politically correct" is a good thing or not. Personally, I find that people who use the term politically correct are the sort who believe what they read in the DM, no offence

I don't I don't mean something that brings the room to silence in shock, yes probably more along the lines of something everypone wants to say but is too afraid

YABU.

"Politically incorrect" may include things like so-called jokes about various minority groups. Not refreshing, just unkind.

See, the problem there is the assumption that it's what everyone want to say. Who decides that. Recent thread on here proved that one person's "what everyone is thinking" is another's, ignorant, bigotted claptrap

I'd add to that - if it's something you think everyone wants to say, and you think it too, why not have the courage of your convictions and say it yourself?

I'm ethincally half chinese half scottish, born in Glasgow so have been the butt of many a joke but IMO if the joke is cruel it says more about the person telling the joke than the 'butt' of the joke. To be perfectly honest I am actually as sick of being patrionised as I am made fun of!

Can you give an example. Do you mean the meeting was brought to a close by the chairman or do you mean something far more disconcerting?

I once remember upsetting a children's nurse who asked me ds's name and then asked if mine was the same (!) followed by "and what's your first name then". She went all purse lipped when I looked at her calmly and said Mrs whilst carefully straightening my rings but she was being incredibly officious.

You're all a bunch of cunts.

no, and i found myself 'absusing' a small shop owner the day before yesterday because everytime i go in there he says something horribly sexist. I told him to stop talking sexist shite and I will never go in there again, but I feel a bit 'awkward' about it.

You are an enormous saggy one Tethers.

Yeah but valium, don't you think his views and comments say more about him than about you being a woman?

I would have thought that I would agree with you up until a couple of weeks ago when I was in another part of the country and had the misfortune to chat to a distant relative who started saying some really shocking things about another relative who is gay.

After that, I think I would prefer people to tread on eggshells a bit, rather than have to listen to vile opinions from some people. Some people just wuldn't know what could be taken lightheartedly and what was crossing a line, so I think we are all better of if people watch what they say. I don't want to know about it if someone has a nasty opinion.

In the situation I just mentioned, a person went from someone who I adored as a child and thought was fabulous to 25 years later and I know what he's really like. I think I would have prefered to keep the childhood illusion tbh, it's unlikely that I will see him again any time soon.

Tether - if you think you've broken a taboo there then think again

Lenin you diiiirty gel

What some people call 'politically correct' is what I think is basic politeness tbh

You do know that the winterval story is a load of made up bollocks don't you. As is baa baa white sheep

Fed up of crap politically correct terminology, I used to work for the Local Council and there was a part on the intranet dedicated to political correct terminology one should use, one springs to mind is thought shower instead of brainstorming as it might upset people with epilepsy, I asked my friend who has it if it upset her, she laughed in my face.

Look here for other politically correct terms

www.bored.com/pcphrases/