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the commentators claimed there never was a “Political Correctness movement” in the US, and that many who use the term do so to distract attention from substantive debate about racial, class and gender discrimination and unequal legal treatment. [27] Similarly, Polly Toynbee argued that “the phrase is an empty right-wing smear designed only to elevate its user.” [28]
Commenting on the UK's 2009 Equality Bill, Toynbee wrote that:
"The phrase "political correctness" was born as a coded cover for all who still want to say Paki, spastic or queer, all those who still want to pick on anyone not like them, playground bullies who never grew up. The politically correct society is the civilised society, however much some may squirm at the more inelegant official circumlocutions designed to avoid offence."[29]
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Critics of PC have shown the same sensitivity to word choice that they claim to oppose, and of perceiving non-existent political agenda. [32] For example, some newspapers reported that a school had altered the nursery rhyme “Baa Baa Black Sheep” to read “Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep”.[33] In fact, the Parents and Children Together (PACT) nursery had the children “turn the song into an action rhyme. . . . They sing happy, sad, bouncing, hopping, pink, blue, black and white sheep etc.” [34] That spurious nursery rhyme story was circulated and later extended to suggest that like language bans applied to the terms “black coffee” and “blackboard”. [35] The Private Eye magazine reported that like stories, all baseless, ran in the British press since The Sun first published them in 1986.
Oct 13, 2009 @ 14:46:24
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