Is decency wrong when you call it political correctness???
Greeting from blighty, it’s nearly novemeber 2008. what i have decided to talk about today is a problem that has been growing over here in england in particular.
The right wing media rages, political corrcetness has gone mad, it’s eroding our way of life, it’s banal stupidity, we can no longer live our lives the way we should.
well they usually site things like stupid local councils refusing to decorate their town centres for xmas, in case the celebrations offend non-christians (i know that is grossly stupid) or when some off-colour old school celebrity comedian complains that they can’t tell jokes about darkies, chinks, pakis and the like that it’s hard being white because you are oppressed in your own country.
It’s all nonsense of course I imagine even if you add up all the minorities in england, and counted the collective wealth we do not have the clout to oppress the white majority. we probably only amount to 11% ( i have not researched that though its probably less ).
the fact is all political correctness should amount to is decency, not being abused on the street because you skin is darker than what europe managed to evolve, or because your hijab marks you out as different. i have been called a “wog” , a “blackie” and other various terms that are less polite than black (which is fairly harmless as a description). it is decency folks not an oppressive assault on anglo saxons.
lately i have noticed with the lurch to the right in politics, that many of these ignorant mouthpieces have come to the fore; complaining about how slowly “the silent majority” (favoured by the right wing rags and bnp) of white people are sick and tired of multicultralism and how they feel so invisible and insulted. well they say they are tired of apologising about the british empire (seriously did they ever start apologising?) and they want to celebrate the good work that it did. mmmm ok so you ended polygamy (hope thats the right spelling) that’s good, spread protestantism by force (mmmm) and re-invented the map. now what about your part in the forcible removal of 10million africans from their continent for forced labour and cheap good? what about the starvation in the indian continent and how you left them to die when they could have been saved? what about the irish potato famine and the fact that we could have saved them from death with the surplus that we had harvested that year? (we could have been the earliest humanitarians but we sold the surplus for profit and watched people die). what about the horrendous mess we made in the middle east after the collasp of the ottoman empire? we fucked up large , look at what our failure in what was then called Palestine has done, the holy land has more bloodshed and death and evil acts than in hell, the suffering, we all suffer for the failed resolutions of 1918.
well i want to write my own rebuttal to the ignorance out there. firstly this is an overwhelmingly christian country although we have sizeable Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh communities. Futhermore i have never heard of any one of those communites condemning the celebration of xmas or easter as offensive, so shall we just chalk any instances of aforementioned circumstances as councils making assinine assumptions that are totally false. So that has nothing to do with our ethnic minorities pressuring the anglo-saxon majority.
Now to deal with the old school comedians who love jokes that mock and use crude stereotypes to belittle the ethnic minorities. well here’s the thing, it’s no longer 1949 and you cannot do it. when a person from an ethnic minority starts their family in this country the one thing they will do is raise that child with respect for this country, and all of it’s cultures. how is that child to feel when their background/heritage/appearance is taken for mockery? will they grow up to be the fodder for extremism? maybe? we all need acceptance and we all execept this culture for what it is and if you want people to respect the culture that you would hate to belittled do not belittle other people.
now all those right wing bastards can shut the fuck up!!!