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[OT} They are getting better at it
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John Rumm wrote: Yup, but PC goes way further than that... they sell it as a way of "not causing offence", but in reality its much more sinister in practice - more Orwellian - that you can suppress the subversive though process or thought crime, by denying the language required. That may well be a cynical interpretation of it. Some might call it being polite to others you don't know. -- *Save a tree, eat a beaver* Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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[OT} They are getting better at it
On Tuesday, 9 October 2018 14:33:45 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article , John Rumm wrote: Yup, but PC goes way further than that... they sell it as a way of "not causing offence", but in reality its much more sinister in practice - more Orwellian - that you can suppress the subversive though process or thought crime, by denying the language required. That may well be a cynical interpretation of it. Some might call it being polite to others you don't know. So what;s that polite expression they use in parliament when they really want to say "you ain't got a ****ing clue" something about "with deepest respect isn't it. and they wonder why we don;t trust them :-) |
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