Metropolitan Trendies. What a bunch of arrse

[the_guru]

The world (inside the M25) is going mad !

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...1811&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule&icc=News&ct=5

 

[TankiesYank]

The world (inside the M25) is going mad !

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...1811&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule&icc=News&ct=5

This link goes to a story about the dead miners in West Virginia (God rest them). Is that what you meant to post?

 

[the_guru]

I meant this one. I am an arrse with bratty fingers


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...e_id=373145&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=&ct=5

 

[Private_Pike]

This bit really grips my sh@t
Quote:
Sir Ian has promoted gay rights since becoming the Met's chief. He has appointed 24 diversity advisers on £35,000-a-year salaries

Firstly, WTF is a"diversity adviser". Why does he need one , let alone 24 and how does he justify spending £840,000 on such a waste of time.

 

[TankiesYank]

Seriously. Assuming this is all represented accurately...I don't even care about which'un people like to take it in, and this annoys me.

Who you sh@g is not, and should not be, your entire identity. Why should it be the basis of a "History Month"? Even if Shakespeare did enjoy the company of other men, and we have only recent conjecture that he was...is there one good reason why we should teach kids about "that great homosexual playwright, Shakespeare"? Or "the lesbian social reformer, Jane Addams?" It's of absolutely no value to the lesson, and it adds no further insight to their accomplishments. If anything, it distracts.

And it's also, at some point, unethical. If a historical figure has not identified him or herself as homosexual, then I do not believe anyone has the right to "out" them afterward and teach it as fact.

 

[Empire]

same as "Black history month" why is there a need to ram everything down our throats? Are we sexist, homophobic, racist if we think all of this utter bollox? probably be called it if we dont see the need for it.

Reply edited , it's not the Naafi Bar

 

[armchair_jihad]

People get real, its a Daily Mail article which means its arrse designed to provoke by people quaffing fine wine in Chelsea, conserve your anger, however if it appears in the Guardian or the Independant then....

 

[Lucky_Jim]

I thought we were supposed to be working towards a society in which we value a person for their achievements, not their colour or sexuality?

I doubt that Johnson Beharrie's VC has anything about his colour engraved on it. Nor is it in a special 'black bravery' category. He's just a very brave man in a (British) uniform, and an inspiration to all.

These misguided idiots are achieving the exact opposite to what they desire.

 

[Kitmarlowe]

If you read the comments by some of the readers you find the lovely comment:-

I welcome the inclusion of history for young lesbians and gay pupils givng them a sense of history.

- Salli Edwards, Cheshire

What is that dumb bitch on?

 

[Agent_Smith]

Just look at who is driving this campaign...

One organiser, Sue Sanders, a lesbian activist who works as a diversity teacher for the Metropolitan Police, said: "Schools have been completely silent on this issue.

"This will encourage people to start looking more closely at the white, male, heterosexual way in which history is presented to us." Another organiser, Paul Patrick, is a former teacher who has contributed to the Trotskyist Socialist Worker newspaper.

I also like their reasoning behind the event

The campaign also aims to identify homosexuals from history to provide role models. But organisers say where evidence of homosexuality is missing teachers should still label figures as gay.

Publicity material for the campaign said: "History has conspired to keep our lives hidden.

"Often in correcting this we rely to some degree on circumstantial evidence."

In other words, they are revising history as they go.

Oh what fun

 

[307]

I have got more time for things such as black history month as there actually is some history their, but gay history, what flucking gay history!? How about we start teaching a bit more British history first to give people the sense of national pride that they're so desperately lacking on the whole. We seem ashamed of our greatness and the pastf eats we have achieved, why shouldn't we celebrate that we once ruled over an empire that stretched over much of the world. WHy can't we celebrate that we have won 2 world wars and the heroism invovled in doing that rather than just fleeting over the fact in education.

 

[ViroBono]

This rather apposite article appeared in this morning's Times.

The slow march of the PC plodders

Anthony Browne

The promoters of political correctness have damaged exactly those they set out to help

I HAVE A CONFESSION to make: I am not a victim. I do not even feel a little bit victimised. Life has dealt me a good hand of cards, and I am immensely grateful.

I tell you this just in case you were listening to the Today programme yesterday, when Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the Independent columnist and a high priestess of political correctness, made the scurrilous accusation that I was claiming victim status. Even if you were tuned in, you probably wouldn’t have heard the rest of the debate, about my pamphlet on political correctness, because the feathers were flying so furiously the producer cut off the microphone. After the show, Ms Alibhai-Brown refused to speak to me except to launch a tirade of personal abuse, leaving Today staff stunned. Gosh, it must be exhausting being so angry with the world.

So, now that I have you to myself, what what was my point? It was that PC started as a counter-culture attack on the dominant conservative ideology in the 1960s but has now risen to become the dominant establishment ideology, and in doing so it has become a heresy of the liberalism it first espoused. Rather than tackling intolerance, it now promotes intolerance, brooking no criticism and denouncing any critics. PC has a vice-like grip on public debate and policy making, setting out what can and can’t be debated, and what the terms of the debate are: anything or anyone who digresses from the PC script is automatically controversial.

The PC brigade feel this is all a price worth paying because PC is so very moral: it helps to protect the weak and vulnerable in society and protects them from the strong. Well, that is certainly its intention — and a good one it is — but increasingly not the practice. PC brought many benefits by combating bigotry — the world is indisputably a better place now than when PC started — but more often than not it now hurts those that it seeks to help.

Encouraging the vulnerable to see themselves as victims and to blame others for their problems, rather than to confront the true cause of their malaise, is often not helping them — it is condemning them to their plight.

This moral dilemma was illustrated by the Government’s announcement of the review of its out-of-control disability benefits system. Like all decent people, I want to support the genuinely disabled, but you don’t do that by creating a vast victim class of disabled people, and giving them a financial reward — all you do is encourage people on the margins to persuade a doctor to classify themselves as disabled, rather than encourage them to confront real problems, such as the lack of training.

The same applies to the underperformance of black boys in school — teaching them to see themselves as victims of white racist teachers is not to help them, but to discourage them and their families from looking at cultural attitudes to education that may be the root cause of the problem. That is not to say there are not racist white teachers; just that focusing only on that issue does not help black boys but hinders them. Telling Africa and Africans that its plight is the West’s fault because it won’t cough up enough aid discourages them from tackling the root cause of their poverty, which is bad governance.

By condemning everyone who disagrees with them in the most extreme terms — those isms — the PC brigade have succeeded in making us a nervy nation, with most people anxious about what they say or think. This has fuelled politics of denial, with politicians preferring to stick their heads in the sand rather than tackle sensitive issues. And again, it is the vulnerable who end up suffering.

The Government’s refusal to face up to abuse in the asylum system until it was on the verge of collapse was a gift to the people traffickers, fuelling the international smuggling of humans: much misery would have been saved if it clamped down early on. The reports into the Bradford riots made clear how local politicians didn’t dare face up to obviously deteriorating community tensions, instead letting them fester until they exploded.

For years, Whitehall refused to address the exponential rise in HIV caused by African immigration, for fear that admitting that it was an issue would fuel racism. But denying there was a problem not only allowed it to escalate, it also made it impossible to target help to African communities in Britain who most need it. Refusing to face up to the growth of radical Islam in the UK until it produced home-grown suicide bombers not only cost dozens of lives, it has also made the problem far more intractable. Explain to me please how playing down the Darfur genocide for fear of offending Arab Muslims does anything to help the black Muslims who are being massacred. Giving employment rights to women that aren’t given to men encourages employers to discriminate against them.

The EU commissioned a report on the rise of anti-Semitism across Europe, but the authors found that the main cause was an increase in attacks from Muslim youths. The Commission binned the non-PC report, and ordered a PC one that blamed the rise on white skinheads instead. But refusing to face up honestly to the true cause of growing anti-Semitism makes it impossible to combat it.

A little less political correctness and a little more old-fashioned honesty, a little less denunciation and a little more open-mindedness, will go a long way to improving the lot of many of the most vulnerable in Britain. None of this is to say that racism, sexism and islamophobia don’t exist and should not still be challenged. It’s just they are not the whole story. What the PC brigade cannot stomach is that it is the non-PC free thinkers who are in many ways now our true moral guardians.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[Cutaway]

If this screecher history thing takes off, I take it that the subject will be taught proportionally.

What I mean is if, as the queer 'spin doctors' (now there's an image I didn't mean to conjure up ) claim, one person in ten prefers sex with others of their own gender, will the teachers only apply ten percent of their time to teaching about them ?
Will the same sense of proportionality apply to teaching about other religions, races or foreign countries ?

I'm all for this, if I make the decision to teach my children that Judaism is the one true religion, I am permitted to have them excused those lessons which lend strength to other faiths.
Ergo if Tim Trotskyteacher starts informing them that forming daisychains while dressed as pirates is acceptable, I will be able to ensure that they are not subjected to such disinformation.


If the DFAT, (Diesels, Fruits, ACDCs and Trannies) will be getting their sexual preferences promoted in schools, I take it we can look forward to Bestiality History Month, Coprophilia History Month and not forgetting LJH's favourite, Paedophile History Month.
Or perhaps that was the plan all along...?

 

[OldRedCap]

This rather apposite article appeared in this morning's Times.

The slow march of the PC plodders
Anthony Browne
The promoters of political correctness have damaged exactly those they set out to help............

This should surely be preserved somewhere easily accessible on this forum so that it can be quoted each and every time this subject rears it's ugly and dangerous head

 

[stoatman]

I bet this won't be on the curriculum in Muslim schools...

As was mentioned by somebody on another thread, we now have a situation where the government is being both actively pro-Muslim and actively pro-gay, almost in the same breath. Given how these two possibilities are mutually exclusive (we all know what Muslims think of homosexuals), I wonder which one will be dropped first? Especially after Sir Iqbal's recent outburst...

 

[dan_man]

I am really geting fcucking sick of PC Britain! What we need is a natural disaster to kill all the left wing liberal Guardian reading people. Why not teach them about important stuff like Britain history, nowadays kids don't about WW1 or WW2.

And this comes from the wisdom of London......

 

[The_Monocled_Mutineer]

Just remember when the lefto pinko handbag carriers are getting you down

Its time for you to grip people but the throat and whisper the famous words:

“Some cnut is going to get knocked the fcuk out!”

It does make you feel great, but you might end up on a disciplinary.

So this week I’m looking in the Job paper as we speak!