What would you like to ban?

Pager said:

Political correctness should be banned.

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Tom Bethell's "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science" is a comprehensive presentation of the viewpoint that mainstream science is dominated by politically correct thinking. Bethell rejects mainstream views on evolution and global warming and supports AIDS denialism.[53]

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During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, several weeks after their Grammy success, the country band the Dixie Chicks performed in London at the Shepherd's Bush Empire theatre. During this 10 March 2003 concert, the band introduced their song "Travelin' Soldier", during which Natalie Maines, a Texas native, was quoted by The Guardian as saying, "Just so you know, [...] we're ashamed that the President of the United States [George W. Bush] is from Texas." Though this is the official circulation of the comment, the full text of the statement Maines made was as follows: “Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”[54]

The resulting backlash against the band was described by columnist Don Williams as an example of exacting a price for expressing views the right considered politically incorrect. Williams wrote "the ugliest form of political correctness occurs whenever there's a war on. Then you'd better watch what you say." Williams noted that Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly called it treason.

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Satirical use
Political correctness has frequently been a target of satire. Two early and famous examples are 1992's Politically Correct Manifesto by Saul Jerushalmy and Rens Zbignieuw X[57] and 1994's Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner, in which traditional fairy tales are rewritten from an exaggerated PC viewpoint.

Other examples include Bill Maher's former television program, which was entitled Politically Incorrect and George Carlin's "Euphemisms" routine.

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MrBurns said:

Yes in fact all "heros" who do stupid things to make themselves important then expect the taxpayer to bail them out when it goes wrong, ie: sending half the AU navy to pick up a sailor who gave up circumnavigating the bloody planet.

Seems the taxpayer bails everyone out, imagine how much LESS tax you'd be paying if they gave a toss about how and when the throw it away.

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2020hindsight said:

I'm told that there are recyclable bags available at the vets for dog-droppings. Might give them a go this year.

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Pager said:

Political correctness should be banned.

All those idiots that want Christmas and Easter toned down as it may offend and alienate certain sections of the community, those idiots in Sheffield England at the moment who have decided not to call a new school a school but a "place for learning" because the word school has "negative connotations" for parents, WTF

Plus a whole host of dribble that some powers that be have decided may or may not offend us the general public.

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Julia said:

Recyclable dog poo bags??? What a charming thought. How, exactly, do you imagine you could recycle these?
You probably mean the biodegradable bags which are what we use.

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stockGURU said:

Dogma.

Imagine, we could get rid of the extreme left, the extreme right and the religious with just one ban!

Who's with me?

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stockGURU said:

Dogma.

Imagine, we could get rid of the extreme left, the extreme right and the religious with just one ban!

Who's with me?

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So long as banning religion <> mandatory atheism... another dogma.

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bassmanpete said:

Where's the dogma in atheism?

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Julia said:

Agnosticism, on the other hand, takes the neutral stance of "I don't know".

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