In reply to shaun l:
> It just totally curtails freedom of speech.
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> Political correctness gone mad.
Tell me about it. You can't even write racial abuse in excrement on somebody's car these days without the PC brigade jumping down your throat.
The trouble with the anti-PC view is that PC is a reaction against the mistreatment of minorities. So, it's kind of hard to take a stand against PC that doesn't seem to be a stand in favour of going back to the commonplace racism, sexism and homophobia of the 1970s.
As for "curtailing freedom of speech" - it's not really is it. PC is people saying "I don't like what you just said" it isn't the government saying "if you say that, we'll put you in jail", unless you go as far as inciting racial hatred. And most people would say that those laws have generally been a good, rather than oppressive thing and have done more to protect the rights of minorities than to curtail freedom of speech.
What I always wonder about people who are anti-PC, is: what is that you want to say that you're being stopped from? If someone on here wants to call me a faggot, they're pretty free to do so, but I'll call them a thick c**t in return and explain why their attitude needs to be stamped out of society. I don't understand how freedom of speech has been curtailed at all, all I can see is that ugly attitudes get a lot more criticism than they did in the 1970s.