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- A VIEW OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS FROM LAWRENCE HUTTON
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- Nowadays one of the most popular phrases in the English language is
- " Political Correctness ".This apparently means that you are no longer
- able to use other words and phrases that have been in use for donkeys
- years.This causes such everyday words as chairman or doorman,being
- replaced by chairperson or doorperson.What total CRAP !
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- For one thing the most ardent exponents of this modern attitude seem to be
- of the same type.They are all be-spectacled,cordouroy jacketed,bearded
- social worker types in men,and cropped haired,dungareed,spotty,ugly,women.
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- There is nothing wrong with the way things were already,it was quite
- possible to have a female chairman on a commitee and nobody bothered their
- arse about it.These people who proliferate these ideas are more worried
- about the correctness of the names than they are about the effectiveness
- of the person to fill the position.Indeed I have even seen in the college
- paper an advert for volunteers for a commitee of ten people to be made
- up of two heterosexual women,two heterosexual men,two gay women,two gay
- men,one Asian and one person of Jewish persuassion.Now,on the face of it
- this may seem fair but to me any commitee should be made up of the people
- best suited to the job in hand,whether that is ten straight men or ten
- Arabic,lesbian,tap dancing window cleaners.
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- This then leads on to the same thing happening in the workplace.Labour are
- already talking about a 50 - 50 split in candidates between women and men
- put up for elections as far as prospective MP`s goes.This is wrong.The same
- best person for the job criteria should apply.Taken in a racial context
- this also leads to claims of racism when a black or coloured person is
- turned down for work.More often than not the person involved automatically
- thinks that it is because they are from a racial minority that they have
- been rejected and not because they just are not the most suitable person
- for the job.
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- In a true inter-racial country there should be a natural division of
- responsible positions among all,but it does not have to be so regularly
- divided.There might be for instance 400 black labour MP`s and 400 white
- Tory MP`s.This would not mean that each party was predjudiced against any
- particular type,only that they had picked the best people for the job
- regardless of either colour or political correctness.If both parties were
- divided equally this may seem to be fairer but in each case 200 people
- would have gotten their jobs because of their colour and not their
- ability.These are the dangers of political correctness.
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