This is our new Orwellian language as designed by the PC brigade's Thought Police. It is much the same as from the novel 1984 as the denizens of Oceania were not allowed to tell the truth either! Their party slogans - WAR IS PEACE,
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY,
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH were just as much gobbledygook as some of the stuff our PC friends dream up! (Click here for a list of banned words and their PC alternatives)
Local Authorities waste our money sending employees on courses so that they can learn newspeak and also new behaviour - (Newact?). This strange behaviour now seems to filter down into other organisations. The English National Opera company recently
sent to all its staff a 'Re-education Document'. The use of all affectionate terms like 'Dear' and 'Dearie' and 'Duckie' and 'Lovey' and especially 'Darling' are deemed to be sexually harassing and are to be banned. The ENO management say they are doing this to conform to Government guidelines on sex discrimination at work.
The word 'black' seems doomed to erasure. Black coffee becomes 'coffee without milk'. Teachers don't write on a blackboard anymore they write on a chalkboard! What is wrong with the word black? It is a colour.
Now Judges and Magistrates will have to learn newspeak as well. The instructions for this are included an new expanded version of the Equal Treatment Bench Book published by the very PC 'Judicial Studies Board'. The board is headed by a good friend of Tony & Cherie Blair, Lord Justice Keen and also has as a member Judge Hodge, husband of Margaret Hodge the Children's Minister!
According to the Daily Mail, the handbook also contains subtle skewed PC advice such as that 'gay sex below the age of consent is acceptable' (isn't that illegal?), that '1 in 10 of the population is homosexual' and that 'there is no evidence that people can be seduced into homosexuality'. Critics say there is no worthwhile research on these subjects and the authors should be exposed for the charlatans they are.
THE A-Z OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Asian
Should not be used as it is a 'term of convenience'
Asylum Seeker
'Almost pejorative'
British
Use only to include 'all in our multi-ethnic, multi-cultural society'
Businessman
'Implies an evaluation of the sexes'
Coloured
'Offensive'
Common Sense
'Becomes problematic when there are parties from differing cultural backgrounds with their differing views of the world'
Epileptic
Use 'person with epilepsy'
Ethnics
Patronising, use 'minority ethnic' but not 'minority ethnics'
Evening
The notion of time can be relative. Evening can mean something completely different to a Scottish person and a Spanish person
Girl
See Businessman (but can be used for a child)
Half-caste
Offensive, use 'mixed parentage' but not 'mixed race'
Handicapped
'Insulting'
He, She, Him, Her
Judges should use 'gender neutral language' such as 'they' or 'them' instead
Immigrants
'Highly inaccurate given the time the majority have been settled here in the UK. The term is exclusionary and liable to offend.'
Man and wife
See Businessman
Mental Handicap
Use 'learning disabilities or difficulties '
Mental Illness
Judges should say 'mental health problems' instead.
Mixed race
'Slightly pejorative to the extent that it focuses on the racial identity of the parents
Mr, Mrs, Ms
'Given the history of marriage in the subordination of women it should come as no surprise that many women find it offensive to be referred to by reference to their marital status or their husband's name.'
Normal
To be avoided as a comparison with disabled people
People of colour
'Popular in the USA, implies inferior status'
Sleeping policemen
'The 1989 Bar vocational evidence exam question with reference to sleeping policemen was failed by the vast majority of non-ethic English students'
Suffer from an illness
People must simply 'have' an illness
The blind
Use 'blind people' or 'people who are blind'. Similar rules apply to deaf people, who may also be 'deaf without speech'
Visible minorities
'Problematic' because it implies invisible minorities.
West Indian
'Colonial overtones'
Wheelchair bound
Use 'wheelchair user'
I have had to eat my words! I said above that the word 'black' seemed doomed to erasure. But according to this book its associations are now 'positive as a result of the political civil liberties movements in the 1960's and 1970's.' I'm glad that its reprieve has come through!!
What a false, sterile and humourless society these PC idiots want to live in - reminiscent of the Soviet Union during the last century.
Stumble It!