Category Archives: Political Correctness

Anti-Olympic signs could mean jail

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The CBC reports:

A proposed B.C. law would allow municipal officials to enter homes to seize unauthorized and possibly anti-Olympic signs on short notice, civil libertarians say.

Violators could be fined up to $10,000 a day and jailed up to six months, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association said Friday.

The proposed law was introduced Thursday as a bill to amend the Municipalities Enabling and Validating Act.

The government said in a statement that the changes will “provide the municipalities of Vancouver, Richmond and Whistler with temporary enforcement powers to enable them to swiftly remove illegal signs and graffiti during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.”

I can think of only one adequate response:

Olympic Finger

A queen for the Queen

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Scotland Yard is looking for new bodyguards for Her Majesty:

You must be a hotshot with a weapon, have a nose for hidden danger and the ability to melt into the background.

But that’s not all you need to join the latest intake of the elite royal protection squad guarding the Queen.

It also helps if you’re lesbian, gay or transgender.

‘Applications are particularly welcomed from women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and black and minority ethnic communities/people as these are under-represented-within SO14.’ Successful candidates must be trained in firearms and will be expected to work 12-hour shifts.

Why are there no eunuchs? This is discrimination.

The assault on Western civilisation continues

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A UK council canteen has renamed Spotted Dick pudding “Spotted Richard”. Yet another portent that the end is at hand:

The traditional suet pudding Spotted Dick has been renamed “Spotted Richard” at a council canteen – because customers keep making jokes.

The new name for the dessert, with another alternative Sultana Sponge, has appeared on the menu at Flintshire Council headquarters in Mold.

The council said catering staff made the decision after “immature comments” and it was not a policy decision.

But one councillor described the move as “political correctness gone mad”.

Inclusiveness

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It’s everywhere; personally, it’s making me yearn to be excluded.

Louis Susman reaches out to Muslims on 9/11

Louis Susman, Barack Obama’s former campaign fund-raiser, whose appointment as Ambassador to the Court of St James’s I revealed in March, has two engagements in his diary next week which will, he hopes, symbolise the “inclusiveness” of the new administration.

On Sept 10, Susman will host a Ramadan Iftar reception at Winfield House, his residence in Regent’s Park, and the next day, on the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, he will attend a concert for the British victims of the terrorist atrocities outside the American embassy in Grosvenor Square. Camilla Hellman, the president of the British Memorial Trust, which is organising the event at the same time as a concert at the British Garden in Hanover Square, New York, says: “There were innocent Muslims, too, who died in the attacks, and it’s appropriate the ambassador should attend the event the night before.”

Iftar refers to the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during Ramadan. Under Islamic tradition, the new day begins at sunset, hence the event at Winfield House will be, for Muslims, 9/11.

Bribed to attend gay pride parade

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Apparently the NHS in the UK can’t afford to pay ambulance drivers overtime when they are on duty, but in an effort to keep up appearances,  can afford to pay them to attend a gay pride parade:

Ambulance staff are being offered overtime to take part in a gay march – regardless of their sexuality.

Dozens of paramedics, the majority of whom are heterosexual, are being encouraged to walk along Brighton’s seafront in their uniform at this year’s Pride festival.

They will be provided with refreshments and driven to and from the resort, all adding to the bill for the taxpayer.

A paramedic who contacted the Daily Mail said South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust had decided to pay its workers £40 each to take part in their own time because it was feared that not enough would volunteer for the event.

The money is the equivalent of two hours’ overtime pay, although paramedics say the trust has recently stopped paying overtime while they are actually on duty, blaming financial pressure.

Companies in Canada are vying to outdo each other in politically correct gaiety; IBM, once a bastion of blue suited conservativeness, sponsors a float in the Toronto gay pride parade and is proud of its diversity:

IBM Canada Ltd. was reported by the Globe and Mail newspaper to have a gay, lesbian, bisexual and “transgendered” group, and to have entered a contingent in Toronto’s gay pride festivities.

IBM – which also has a gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgendered “task force” – should be a place where people feel comfortable being openly gay, according to the corporation’s vice-president of workforce diversity. Anyone who has a problem with that need not apply to IBM, he added.

As you will note, IBM is so diverse that anyone who does not share its enthusiasm for an actively gay lifestyle is not welcome.

No double, double toil and trouble in RC social club

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We have reached such a point of idiotic political correctness that some words have taken on a deific persona and merely to use them guaranties that all critical thought must be stifled in order to offer the obligatory deference. Diversity is an obvious example; diversity is a good in its own right, no one would ever bother to question whether uniformity might sometimes be better.

Discrimination is another verbal thought extinguisher: to discriminate can never be right. It’s true that Anglicans are addicted to discerning but that never leads to discriminating; discerning is, rather, a technique for indefinite procrastination.

So it comes as no surprise when we see headlines that say Witches claim religious discrimination after church ban. But for a religion to be worth following, it must claim to be at the very least more correct in its perception of reality than other religions: to hold to truth necessitates discriminating against falsehood.

Here we have a spot of discrimination:

A group of witches is claiming religious discrimination after church leaders banned them from using its social club.

Sandra Davis – High Priestess at the Crystal Cauldron – had reserved Our Lady’s Social Club in Shaw Heath, Stockport for her Pagan group’s Annual Witches’ Ball.

But when she rang to make payment arrangements she was told the event could not be held there and – despite already having printed tickets – another venue must be found.

The Diocese of Shrewsbury have since confirmed witches are not ‘compatible with the Catholic ethos’.

Sandra, 61, said: “I’m appalled.

“My congregation is shocked that in this day and age there can be such religious discrimination.

“We’re normal people who follow an earth-based religion and want to enjoy ourselves.

I admit that I too am shocked that in this day and age there can be such religious discrimination. And pleased.

An infectious cross

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Apparently, wearing a crucifix has become an infection hazard:

A Christian hospital worker fears for her job after refusing to take off a crucifix which ‘could harbour infection’, it emerged today.

Helen Slatter, 43, says she will not choose between her faith and her job after the NHS claimed the jewellery could spread disease or even be used as a weapon.

Gloucestershire Royal Hospital explained today that health and safety rules applied to everyone and the regulations had nothing to do with religion.

The blood collector – or phlebologist – said she was called to a disciplinary meeting yesterday and warned she would be sent home if she failed to comply.

A spokesman for Gloucestershire NHS Trust said today: ‘The issue is not one of religion. The trust employs a uniform policy which must be adhered to at all times.

‘Necklaces and chains present two problems – firstly they provide a surface that can harbour and spread infections and secondly they present a health and safety issue whereby a patient could grab a necklace or chain and cause harm to a member of staff.’

Medicine is supposed to be based on science; where is the science that demonstrates cases of a crucifix infecting anyone or being used as a weapon? Where are the studies? Could the NHS be exhibiting religious bigotry?

The cross is infectious in a positive way; is this what really worries the NHS?

Blimpophobia

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Just as mandatory tolerance increases for every conceivable moral perversity, so mandatory intolerance is increasing for every physical foible: smoking; not wearing seatbelts; not wearing bicycle helmets and now being too fat:

Bias against obese people increasing, study says

Yale University scientists who searched through medical studies on weight bias published between January 2000 and May 2008 found:

More than half of 620 doctors surveyed view obese patients as “awkward,” “unattractive,” “ugly” and “non-compliant.” A third went further, painting the obese as weak-willed, sloppy and lazy. Even dieticians, personal trainers and doctors who specialize in treating obesity exhibit fat phobia.

There must be a correlation. I suspect that humanity has a natural inclination to condemn – one which must be indulged for a happy, balanced life. Since little remains that can be condemned as ethically wrong – other than telling someone what they are doing is ethically wrong – we have to take it out on the fatties, smokers and non-exercisers.

U.S. Military destroys Afghan Bibles

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The real solution for Afghanistan – Christianity – is forbidden:

Trying to convert Muslims to another faith is a crime in Afghanistan.

Bibles in Afghan languages sent to a U.S. soldier at a base in Afghanistan were confiscated and destroyed to ensure that troops did not breach regulations which forbid proselytizing, a military spokeswoman said.

The U.S. military has denied its soldiers tried to convert Afghans to Christianity, after Qatar-based Al Jazeera television showed soldiers at a bible class on a base with a stack of bibles translated into the local Pashto and Dari languages.

U.S. Central Command’s General Order Number 1 forbids troops on active duty — including all those based in Iraq and Afghanistan — from trying to convert people to another religion.

So here we are, trying to bring freedom, democracy and a decent life to Afghanistan and the foundation upon which these ideals are based is something that the soldiers are not allowed to talk about!

Surely if we are sufficiently convinced that it’s worth taking our values to a civilisation, then it’s also worth taking the basis for those values? But, no, political correctness is more important than truth; one reason why the Afghanistan adventure will probably fail.