To be totally fed up with Political Correctness

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I'm all for manners, equality and respect but my word, it's all becoming over the top don't you think?

No specific examples, just noticed it recently.

The blackboard thing baffles me.

I mean, it's a completely neutral object. So why would anybody decide that it has been re-christened, or banned? Obviously here on planet earth we know it's a myth but surely if there was a genuine effort made to make up PC bollox they could do much better than to focus on an object that most people haven't laid eyes on or needed to mention since they were 11?

Also, the banning christmas thing.

I don't get that either. Surely given the evidence (christmas stuff in the shops from August onwards, Christmas schedules on the BBC, Santa Claus on the front page of the Radio Times, the Queen's christmas message etc) you'd think they could just come up with something a bit more, well, convincing?

The myths seem to be based entirely around primary schools, and even then it's never anybody's own kid's school, it's a school they've 'heard of'.

I just think, if you can't give solid examples of how PC is eroding your rights then it probably isn't eroding your rights really, is it.

My example isn't a "school I've heard of"; it is my own ds' school and things I have seen and heard for myself.

ahh but Stewie, why did they feel the need to paint them green, eh?

[taps nose knowingly]

Morris, lol at "here on planet earth". Though I would like to point out that's very earth-centric. What about denizons of other planets, are they not allowed an opinion on board-based display options?

narnia is a bit dodgy. especially The Last Battle, which i doubt you'd get published now.

in my LA there is a team who used to be called fostering and Adoption - pretty straightforward. then it was changed to Looked After Children but gasp! shortened to LAC. hevens, can't have that - implies 'lackadasical' (btw i'm not sure whther they mean the staff or the kids!). also remember folks its the kids who come first so the team, for now mind, is called Children, Who Are Looked After

ffs

btw the brainstorm thing is even more specific. apparently it might offend epileptics. you must say 'mind map'

I remember standing directly under a whole lot of lights spelling out "Merry Xmas" in the centre of Bradford being told by my mother in law that we weren't allowed to celebrate Christmas any more!

seeker!

MorrisZapp The blackboard thing baffles me too but it is no myth, this was my DD's infant school. I never was bothered enough to ask if it was for PC reasons or if the teacher was perhaps Americanised as I think they call them chalk boards over there???? You'd never catch me being offended if someone called a whiteboard a um.....whiteboard!!

sungirltan, a mind map is different to brainstorm or 'thought shower'. It's more ordered, has branches etc.

I wonder why they were called brainstorms in the first place? It's not exactly descriptive of the process is it?

I think chalkboard is just an American term.

I didn't notice how accustomed to political correctness I had become until I spent some time in Australia. It was like a breath of fresh air

brightyoungthing, who says any black people are actually offended by the term 'blackboard'? Know any? No, nor me. The people supposedly offended by half these things have usually never been asked. If they happen at all it's because some bureaucratic idiot has decided they should without bothering to ask anyone affected.

I remember a Muslim friend of mine being incandescent with rage because some story went around college that he and other Muslims would be offended by getting Xmas cards and by us all celebrating Xmas. In fact, he usually sent Xmas cards himself and had absolutely no issue with Christian festivals being celebrated. I always think of him now when these myths do the rounds again.

EldritchCleavage Why are you directing your question at me??

I agree with you that it's bureaucratic idiots thinking these things up.

I've never commented that black people get offended by blackboards.

Doesn't matter what the board for writing on with chalk is called any more. Not allowed to use chalk in classrooms.

Whiteboards, anyone?