General Chat

Susie that sort of thing really makes my blood boil...the nursery rhyme was written long ago and would have had absolutely nothing to do with race, creed or colour!! The sheep is black.....it may be woolly but that makes the rhyme senseless!!!! Robert love your comments..... Jacquie xxxxx

In my daughters creche they have to sing ' Baa Baa Wooly Sheep'. I always correct her and say that it is Black sheep not wooly!! X

Our local evening newspaper placed a whole page advert asking if anyone had been subject to racial abuse? Some 2 weeks later, a lot of our foreign nieghbours had reported such abuse.. such as being called paki, darkie etc.. Now what i wanna know is how many of us English folk have ever stood in a corner shop and had to listen and try to decipher what they are saying about us?? Just because we cannot speak their language doesnt mean that we dont 'feel' what they are saying! and i know its not always nice stuff!!! Karen PS and why cant they serve us without talking in their tongue without having a telephone at their left ear!!! Manners Folk!!!# Oh yeah and is Please and Thank you not in there language???

Robert, please not woperson - woperchild!

The huperson race should take great care in debasing itself with Political Correctness; how would the men and wopersons of Personchester feel about the new name? How about the Ethnicpool Illuminations already mentioned upon these boards? Isle of Caucasian? What about speciesism? we could be going to the not-a-two-legged -species- but-still-of- inestimable-importance -to-the- biosphere-of- this-planet. A downpour could rain an unspecified mixture of four-legged common household companions! It could get really ridiculous. Rob

Interesting topic Oleander. I would consider myself as intolerant of Political Correctness bordering on the innane, as I am of hatred bordering on the psychotic. In my own (non-PC opressed, dictated or controlled) personal opinion, one suggests stupidity and the other ignorance. Patty :-)

nudged because I want to!!

Here children born outside of wedlock are called outside children! And this white, honky, red neck has to go and do some work!! Jacquie xxxx

Yes Debby there will always be people that use their words in a derogatory way....I have heard the term White B*****d... Mind you they are nearly all illigitimate here whatever colour they are. lol....

So what do you call a White Elephant Stool nowadays...no rude comments please...... sorry of course I mean Stall!!! Jacquie xxxxx

Jackie, I think I'd prefer to open a furniture shop - at least tables and chairs can't complain! LOL CB >|<

Black blackbird; black box; blackboard; blackguard; blackhead; black ice; blackleg; blackcurrant; black cap; black hole; black letter; black magic; blackmail; Black Maria; blackout. White whitebait; white collar; white dwarf; white elephant; white feather; white heat; White House; white magic; whitethroat; whitewash; white spirit; white sauce; white ant. Now, have I said anything wrong?

Well my husband calls me Red Neck! lol.... He is mixed race.....his grandfather was Black his grandmother white...his mother turned out white his father is white....he looks white with a nice tan! lol but I am the Red Neck..... Jacquie xxxx

Regarding the term Chairman. I am a President of a Club and I am the Chairman I Chair all the meetings.(I am a Female) I just had a thought. In our Constitution it states Chairman for certain things. Does that mean that all Constitutions have to be changed?. I had never thought of it before. If anyone knows the answer could they let me know. Will bring the subject up at next meeting. Regards Jackie

Its an amazing world, we're not allowed to call people who attempt to blow us up nasty names, specially when they succeed, thats racsim, if we call THEM names its racsim but its all right for them to do or say anything they like because WE have freedom of speech, LIKE HELL we do, after all we shouldnt complain, its only OUR country. Len ( I'M in a BLACK mood)

I agree with you, Twinkle. People are called 'Chairs' now to get round having to say 'man' or 'woman'. If it were me, I'd rather be called a Chairman than a piece of furniture! LOL I'm sure different races have their own slang or derogatory terms for white people, it's just that we don't know their languages, so we don't pick it up. Personally, I object to the term, 'White, middle-aged & middle class' being used as a put-down. Given our now 'classless society', the majority of people in the UK could be termed precisely that, and if the PC brigade don't like it, hard luck! CB >|<

Political correctness was something that started out for the right reasons, but has spiralled out of control. Nobody even asks if a certain group are offended by something; they just ban it. Often the people who are meant to be offended are just as baffled as the rest of us. Take 'chairperson' - as a female, I have never felt demeaned by the word 'chairman' and I don't think it's sexist. I've never met anyone who does. Someone earlier mentioned ethnic groups. Why are black Americans called African-Americans, but white Americans not European-Americans? Aren't they all just Americans?

Oleander. I worked for a company in Oldham where 1/2 the work force were Asian. One day one of the ' white' workers reffered to one of the Asian workers as 'Paki ' , the Asian worker complained and i must agree that it was said in such a fashion as to cause offence. Anyway , a few weeks later i found a mobile phone on the table - its screen saver read - 100 % PAKI and F****** proud of it. Who did it belong to ? - Yes - the Asian who had originally complained. Think what you like !!!!

PC here calls whites Caucasian. It has only been in the last few years. Why not say white? It's absolutely ridiculous. When we first came to Australia we were called Poms meaning Prisoner of Mother England. I never took offence at it. Most Aussies meant it as a term of endearment. Regards Jackie

I have two 'invisible in the dark' labradors. Lol! IMHO PC is nothing more than Newspeak from 1984.