Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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8 February 2011
08:3191909I'm not sure how we can stand up to this dangerous and silly nonsense, but if we don't, there will come a time in the not too distant future when we will never be able to say any comments that have no racist slur or intention to insult, but some screwed-up idiot will say "hey, that's racist" and you've had it - job lost, public shame and worse and there's nothing you can do about it.
"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing" - and this is a dangerous and evil trend we all feel there is nothing we can do about it or stop getting worse.
Roger
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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8 February 2011
08:4091911Thats fair enough Roger but good men ( and women ) are doing something... they are complaining. The various TV channels as we know were inundated with complaints about the Keyes/Gray episode or about the Brand/Ross episode. The mood has changed. It ever changes. Much in the way that the 21st century isnt like the 1970's or the 1970' werent like the 1950's and so on. Things move along, times change.
All this is a kind of social evolution.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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8 February 2011
09:0791916A 'social evolution' too far PaulB.
These po-faced pc idiots will not stop me from speaking plainly, using proper English including old established sayings. Their attitudes amount to the 'new fascism' of the thought police and they need putting in their place.
Fortunately as the reaction to this issue shows they are not getting it all their own way. There is a 'fightback' and we had an example on Question Time recently where a businesswoman hit out against that humourless spineless feminist brigade (no doubt horrifying the 'oh too pc' BBC)
I do not count the Ross/Brand affair as the same kind of thing, that was well over the top and a far cry from this Wiltshire episode and even the Keyes/Gray matter. Ross and Brand should never be allowed back on our screens for what they did.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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8 February 2011
19:1391996Absolutely agree Barry, especially your comments on Ross and Brand.
Roger