In Britain, the home of the free (if you are foreign and want to come and get a house that us taxpayers pay for) we take political correctness to levels like you wouldn’t believe.
Political correctness is a wonderful thing. With a few exceptions. These are:
- It is a stupid idea
- Things get messed up for no reason
- It is a really stupid idea
- It makes all the stupid people get some power
- It is a REALLY stupid idea
- It ruins life for the rest of us.
In part I agree with it. It is a really small part. But at least it makes sense. And then you get the people who use it for everything. Religions saying we should change who we are to meet their misguided faith. Or my favourites like:
Instead of singing “Baa baa, black sheep” as generations of children have learnt to do, toddlers in Oxfordshire are being taught to sing “Baa baa, rainbow sheep”. When is the last time you saw a rainbow coloured sheep? More on this one HERE. Yes sir. I have rainbow coloured wool. And some magic mushrooms. Here, take a mouthful. I will look eeeeven prettier.
OR
A council saying you can’t use the words “Political Correctness as it can be related to the KKK”. More HERE. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think the KKK was “politically” motivated.
Or we use it to give jobs to people it is totally unsuitable for.
Imagine you are sitting in a nice big Boeing 777 with a few hundred other people getting leg cramp and DVT. You are flying over international waters watching the in flight movie and drinking as much free booze as you can. Your mobile phone (or cell phone for the rest of you) is turned off, your laptop has turned off so you don’t keep getting annoying requests from Facebook because someone installed an app that requires you to share it with 900000 other people for you to see the results of “Am I a hermaphrodite” after you answered the 10 questions. Life is just sweet.
What you don’t know is that the pilot is talking to a blind man in air traffic control.
No. Really.
“Equal Opportunities”. Two words that are used because “We will employ anyone we can get to work for peanuts. Mr M. Onkey welcome to apply” is too long to put on an application form.
Or in the case of a small British airport, you can apply for the job of Air Traffic Control Officer and the application pack can be supplied in BRAILE.
Now. I work at an airport. Not the one in question, but if I knew that they were allowing a blind person to decide where the planes were to go, I would be leaving the country before you know it.
By boat.
What next? “As a security guard, you will be expected to listen for dodgy devices, and search people. Application also available in Braille and audio format.” Audio format. For people who can’t read I assume? Lets get these people educated before we give them important jobs.
Oh, no don’t be silly. This is multicultural Britain. Anyone can do anything…
Was this post politically incorrect? Know of political incorrectness gone mad? Leave a comment. I get excited over this stuff. And not dodgy excited…well, not always.
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