political correctness ? what did it do to you ?

My maths textbooks had politically correct names, like Ahmed and Ashif. Like that is gonna make the text book look more modern or something.

My maths textbooks had politically correct names, like Ahmed and Ashif. Like that is gonna make the text book look more modern or something.

I remember someone in my maths class put their hand up, after reading 5 exercises in which everyone was called Tyrone or Jamaal, complaining that the textbook did not make clear the simple fact that black people can't add up... makes me smile to this day.

Well it is pc gone mad, i can't believe anyone seriously complained about it. ... that would be pathetic.

Oh my god, for ****S SAKE! Get a life you sad pathetic fools. Who gives the SLIGHTEST **** that the names in our text books have changed. Jesus Christ! You really are a sad lot aren't you? There are far more important aspects of "politicial correctness" to consider than the fact that text books have changed. Political correctness is not a modern phenomenon: just read Shakespeare's plays, or admire the art in Rome, and you will see it is nothing new. God

We're not the ones that are sad, the people that decided to change the names from normal english ones to strange PC names are the ones that are sad.

I find it funny because its multiculturalism at its most transparent

I would laugh, but then it actually is a small part of a serious problem.

Oh my god, for ****'S SAKE! Get a life you sad pathetic fools. Who gives the SLIGHTEST **** that the names in our text books have changed. Jesus Christ! You really are a sad lot aren't you? There are far more important aspects of "politicial correctness" to consider than the fact that text books have changed e.g. positive discrimination, the balance between free speech and preserving a cordial society, dealing effectively with social issues that are swept under the rug for fear of "offending" or losing voters. Political correctness is not a modern phenomenon: just read Shakespeare's plays, or admire the art in Rome, and you will see it is nothing new. Whenever PC comes up here it is always in a parochially frivolous context...

It stole my job. It took my money. It raped my wife. It closed down my local chippy and replaced it with a Curry House. It cancelled Christmas in my town. It changed the lyrics to my favourite nursery rhyme. It took my dignity and threw it out of the window and it's never coming back.