Political Correctness
Perhaps this is better described as the corruption of norms. This
nonsense has totally taken over thinking in the public sector and is now being imposed on the rest of society.
Their obsession with it has totally distorted recruitment in the sector and instead of the best person for the job being employed there are too many square pegs in round holes. One has only to look at
recent high profile cases involving race and homosexuality in the police service to see where this leads.
On top of blackboards being renamed chalk boards and chairmen becoming inanimate objects (perhaps that is appropriate) it is now to be taboo to tell jokes involving race, colour or religion.
Have you seen the list of words that are now considered
inappropriate to be used by the judiciary? Here are a few:
Asian, asylum seekers, British, businessmen, coloured, epileptic, ethnic, half-cast, handicapped, he, she, him, her, immigrants, man and wife, mental handicap, mental illness, mixed race, Mrs. Miss, M/s, normal, people of colour, sleeping policeman, the blind,
minorities, West Indian, and wheelchair-bound.
Last and by no means least common-sense. Apparently it
becomes problematical when the parties are from different cultural backgrounds with their differing world views.
You couldn’t make it up!
Now one of our PC Police Officers from one of the ethnic minority communities has decided that the Police Black Museum should be renamed because it could cause offence. To whom?