I take it that you mean the examples I posted were NOT political correctness.
If so, then as we obviously disagree about the definition, please state yours - or is it that you think there is no such thing?
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If so, then as we obviously disagree about the definition, please state yours - or is it that you think there is no such thing?
I have said no such thing.
However I am calling on those who complain about it to say what they mean by it and to give real-life examples of how they have been affected.
Here is someone who does agree with one of my examples.
I am affected in that it irritates me. Not the end of the world but silly and unnecessary.
That you do not agree could indicate something other than me being wrong.
http://www.economist.com/style-guide/political-correctness
"HE, SHE, THEY
You also have a duty to grammar. The struggle to be gender-neutral rests on a misconception about Gender, a grammatical convention to make words masculine, feminine or neuter. Since English is unusual in assigning few genders to nouns other than those relating to people (ships and countries are exceptions), feminists have come to argue that language should be gender-neutral.
This would be a forlorn undertaking in most tongues, and even in English it presents difficulties. It may be no tragedy that policemen are now almost always police officers and firemen firefighters, but to call chairmen chairs serves chiefly to remind everyone that the world of committees and those who make it go round are largely devoid of humour. Avoid also chairpersons (chairwoman is permissible), humankind and the person in the street—ugly expressions all.
It is no more demeaning to women to use the words actress, ballerina or seamstress than goddess, princess or queen. (Similarly, you should feel as free to separate Siamese twins or welsh on debts—at your own risk—as you would to go on a Dutch treat, pass through french windows, or play Russian roulette. Note, though, that you risk being dogged by catty language police.)"
I am affected in that it irritates me. Not the end of the world but silly and unnecessary.
That you do not agree could indicate something other than me being wrong.
http://www.economist.com/style-guide/political-correctness
"HE, SHE, THEY
You also have a duty to grammar. The struggle to be gender-neutral rests on a misconception about Gender, a grammatical convention to make words masculine, feminine or neuter. Since English is unusual in assigning few genders to nouns other than those relating to people (ships and countries are exceptions), feminists have come to argue that language should be gender-neutral.
This would be a forlorn undertaking in most tongues, and even in English it presents difficulties. It may be no tragedy that policemen are now almost always police officers and firemen firefighters, but to call chairmen chairs serves chiefly to remind everyone that the world of committees and those who make it go round are largely devoid of humour. Avoid also chairpersons (chairwoman is permissible), humankind and the person in the street—ugly expressions all.
It is no more demeaning to women to use the words actress, ballerina or seamstress than goddess, princess or queen. (Similarly, you should feel as free to separate Siamese twins or welsh on debts—at your own risk—as you would to go on a Dutch treat, pass through french windows, or play Russian roulette. Note, though, that you risk being dogged by catty language police.)"
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So why have you latched on this so incorrectly? It's quite clear, and have mentioned it already, that these were not my examples personally, but examples of PC madness. I was not addressing you or your question to Trans when I put this up originally.
So if you've been told this and it's quite clear anyway, do you keep asking the same thing? I never said that it stopped anyone from preventing crimble, the article doesn't say it did either, so why are you going on and on about something that's simply not relevant?
It's a strange way of thinking for sure, you come over as someone who doesn't understand something written or someone who's just so keen to be an argumentative soul that you're inventing stuff to argue about.
Do you mean that you put up some examples, but you now say they are not your examples?
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Look at posts 120 and 121.
We've already covered that - are you senile? Would explain a bit.
def some thing amiss thats for sure 
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Would contradiction of this be considered unacceptable by the PC crowd and would they be justified or is it just PC madness?
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/body/a37787/photo-series-women-fat-beautiful/
Sorry.
Was the casting for this advertisement done with PC in mind?
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/body/a37787/photo-series-women-fat-beautiful/
Sorry.
Was the casting for this advertisement done with PC in mind?
Nearly all of us know why.
It's a common misconception for right wing ******* to invent some kind of imaginary curtailment of free speech and use PC as a fitting title for the imaginary curtailment.
How would you know?
I'm alive.
I have eyes.
I have ears.
I have a modicum of intelligence.
How do you find stuff out EFLI? ESP??
Yes, but have you found out for certain that all such things are misconceptions? No valid examples?
Are, for example, the five people in the kwik-fit advert a surprising coincidence or were they specifically chosen to be PC?
Are, for example, the five people in the kwik-fit advert a surprising coincidence or were they specifically chosen to be PC?
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