It must be a hoax

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by BrucePartington

"Political correctness" seems to become a world wide spread disease. In essence, it is forcing people to give up their individuality and freedom of expression, even if it is a positive and uplifting statement, as this one seems to be.
Sad world we live in nowadays. We must not be proud of our flag, we must not believe in a higher and positive spirituality (whatever the form or the name), we must not have an opinion, and definitelly not make a stand for what we believe in, however right it is. We are being turned into drones.

You're painting a misleading and ridiculous picture.

On the barest grounds, political correctness means being mindful of the words we use so as not to cause needless offence.

Obviously you can pick out extreme cases of people being stupid and call the whole endeavor ridiculous. That's fair enough.

But when you say that "we can't believe in a higher spirituality" you're talking absolute rubbish. Same goes for the rest of the world you describe.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

On the barest grounds, political correctness means being mindful of the words we use so as not to cause needless offence.

That's the most cynical euphemism that I have heard in a very long time.

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by Skybird

That's the most cynical euphemism that I have heard in a very long time.

not a euphemism, an attempt at a definition.

Edit - me the cynical one in this thread? That's rich.

Can we all lighten up...everyone should have a right to express themselves as long as they are acting within the boundaries of the law and not intentionally provoking others on the grounds of racism etc.

Firstly the boundaries of the law have been set, if he doesn't like it he can buy his own house and do what he wants with it.
Secondly, he served in the 6 counties, so must know how some people can get a little annoyed with other people painting flags on buildings.
Thirdly, unfortunately the cross of St. George has for a long time been associated with vile scum who appropriated it for their own loony agenda, you can't really blame people for mistakenly associating his door display with those scum can you.

Do like the article says.....The flag of St George needs to be reclaimed from the far right....if the dumb racists hadn't claimed the flag as their badge there wouldn't be that much of an issue over the flag itself. So don't blame "political correctness" blame the dumb neo nazis.

[desertstriker]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Firstly the boundaries of the law have been set, if he doesn't like it he can buy his own house and do what he wants with it.
Secondly, he served in the 6 counties, so must know how some people can get a little annoyed with other people painting flags on buildings.
Thirdly, unfortunately the cross of St. George has for a long time been associated with vile scum who appropriated it for their own loony agenda, you can't really blame people for mistakenly associating his door display with those scum can you.

Do like the article says.....The flag of St George needs to be reclaimed from the far right....if the dumb racists hadn't claimed the flag as their badge there wouldn't be that much of an issue over the flag itself. So don't blame "political correctness" blame the dumb neo nazis.

Same issue in America with the old confederate flag. People seem to think it is a sign of racism when it really may not be intended to be racist depending on who has it up for me it is a symbol of the south and a different time period(i am in the north BTW) it was also a symbol for a few countries other than the Confederate States of America too at one point.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by desertstriker

Same issue in America with the old confederate flag. People seem to think it is a sign of racism when it really may not be intended to be racist depending on who has it up for me it is a symbol of the south and a different time period(i am in the north BTW) it was also a symbol for a few countries other than the Confederate States of America too at one point.

I know a guy who has a Confederate Flag painted on the hood of his Ford Bronco.

'Merica

[Mork_417]

Willing to bet there is more to the story between the renter & owner, that would explain the ten year delay.