I am a regular reader of the excellent CIVITAS web-site and was pleased to read that Civitas has authored a new report that sugests Britain's institutions are infected with political correctness which is damaging society. Civitas says political correctness has allowed the creation of "Muslim ghettos" which produce suicide bombers. PC thinking now dominates schools, councils and the media, Anthony Browne says in The Retreat of Reason.
Anthony was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 this morning, along with left wing Harpy Yasmin Alibhai Brown. It's a laugh to hear just how unhinged this moonbat becomes - listen to hear the incoherence of the Left on full display!! I was also entertained to see that the BBC allowed Inayat Bunglawala, of the Muslim Council of Britain, to comment on the report. Bunglawala is on record calling Osoma bin Laden a "freedom fighter" - so we can guess where HE'S coming from!
I guess the main thing that interests me is why so many (but not all) of those on the Left deny the reality of the politically correct straitjacket they have worked so industriously to put around us!
Hi David and ATW pals - hope Christmas and New Year brought / will bring all you wish for.
My heart fell when Yasmin AB's presence was announced on Today this morning...
But YAB gave great value. She showed herself to be a prize idiot, and quite unhinged. A great advertisement for her cause!
Posted by: DST | January 03, 2006 at 12:41 PM
DST
Welcome back to the fold. Happy New Year!
Posted by: Aileen | January 03, 2006 at 12:46 PM
DST - spot on. The Ms. Brown demonstrated a rabid intolerence for free speech and the right for anyone to hold a view contary to her own.
Posted by: NRG | January 03, 2006 at 01:15 PM
David, the left object criticism because so many of them are employed in the massive unnecessary waste of resources that is the PC industry. How else such people get such big salaries and public positions for doing so little?
Posted by: NRG | January 03, 2006 at 01:19 PM
"I guess the main thing that interests me is why so many (but not all) of those on the Left deny the reality of the politically correct straitjacket they have worked so industriously to put around us! "
Just as the BBC denies its institutional bias.
I think there was a comment piece by David Aaronavitch in the Times recently, which complained about all the "whining" against political correctness and that just sums it up. They don't want all this junk called "political correctness" in the first place (that's offensive). In fact, that's what political correctness is all about: disallowing you from complaining about it.
Have you noticed that complaining about "political correctness" in a general sense is all you're allowed to do? Once you turn it to something specific, like, I dunno, complaining about the amount of council-spending on "Turkish community projects" or the banning of the routemaster because of "lack of disability access", you instantly start getting called bigot, racist, sexist, homophobe etc etc.
Which is political correctness rearing its head again. So political correctness demands that you do not criticise political correctness.
Posted by: John Hustings | January 03, 2006 at 02:18 PM
John,
Exactly right!
Posted by: David Vance | January 03, 2006 at 02:30 PM
What a great site....I'm a first time visitor!
I've always been bothered by certain trends within the poltically correct crowd that seem contradictory.....among other things!
Has one ever noticed that when the PCs attempt to establish the bounderies/parameters of a selected victim group they always invoke the racial/ethnic/religious identity of that group, but when attempts are made to establish the identy of the perpetrators of aggressions and crimes those same racial/ethnic/religious profiles are deemed a virtual "crime against humanity"?
"We must never generalise", they say......
Posted by: John Palubiski | January 03, 2006 at 06:33 PM
John,
You're very welcome. The PC brigade are a bunch of narrow-minded intolerant whingers who have made a real effort to limit debate on THEIR chosen hobby horses. Well, here on ATW - we shoot horses, don't we?
Posted by: David Vance | January 03, 2006 at 07:08 PM
Amazing how short the clip is. So much for open discussion. I especially loved the bit where the host is trying to stop them arguing. Such nonsense!
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