political correctness ? what did it do to you ?

Anyone else noticed that all these names in the maths books appear on newsrounds interviewee's

I live in London, have to say multiculturalism is doing pretty well here. Every white woman in the neighborhood has a black child, it seems.

Yeah, i agree theres no harm in having an ethnic name in a book. But it becomes sinister when the name is inserted for political rather than literary reasons.

Get a ****ing life. What is plitical about an occassional Ahmed in a math book? Jeez!

Which is bad, imo. Political correctness is preventing us from confronting some of the real problems we face.

I live in London, have to say multiculturalism is doing pretty well here. Every white woman in the neighborhood has a black child, it seems.

How many also have black husbands/boyfriends?

What are you getting at? That black men have got white women pregnant and then run off? I don't think that's a very nice thing to imply, if that is indeed what you are saying.

i ahve to say the changing of baa baa black sheep was something that really made me gawp at the stupidity of it

I live in London, have to say multiculturalism is doing pretty well here. Every white woman in the neighborhood has a black child, it seems.

Anyway, I have an ethnic name, it's nice to see them in books. If you are black/Asian and have a different name, you will be teased mercilessly. At least having a few mentions in a book is nice.

Political correctness all but ruined my secodary education. I attended a state comp with a high intake of inner-city dwelling students of Afro-Caribbean origin, intimidating little bastards they were too. To cut a long story (several long stories really) short, they were allowed to hurl all kinds of racist absue towards their white peers (e.g. "you can't sit here because you're white"), without any kind of reprimand from teachers, whereas more or less all the white kids had to do was look at a black kid for more than a second and it was deemed racism. It was totally pathetic; the majority of troublemakers in the school were black, but any time a teacher told them off they were automatically 'racist' (it was never because they were told off simply because they were misbehaving). Now, I'm not saying that if you were black you were indefinitely a naughty kid, nor that every bad kid was black. But that was the general pattern, and beacuae the threat of crying 'racism' was so omnipresent, the teachers eventually stopped telling off any distracting black student altogether.

Now, I was brought up in a liberal atmosphere, and like I said before, not every black pupil at my old school was bad news. But when you have to endure that sort of maddening situation every day for seven years, it is very difficult to leave without cursing political correctness, perhaps even feeling slightly intolerant of other races...

Please don't all jump on me and brand me racist, but this is my response to the titular question and I bet if any of you had been in the same position as me you would feel the same.

Political correctness all but ruined my secodary education. I attended a state comp with a high intake of inner-city dwelling students of Afro-Caribbean origin, intimidating little bastards they were too. To cut a long story (several long stories really) short, they were allowed to hurl all kinds of racist absue towards their white peers (e.g. "you can't sit here because you're white"), without any kind of reprimand from teachers, whereas more or less all the white kids had to do was look at a black kid for more than a second and it was deemed racism. It was totally pathetic; the majority of troublemakers in the school were black, but any time a teacher told them off they were automatically 'racist' (it was never because they were told off simply because they were misbehaving). Now, I'm not saying that if you were black you were indefinitely a naughty kid, nor that every bad kid was black. But that was the general pattern, and beacuae the threat of crying 'racism' was so omnipresent, the teachers eventually stopped telling off any distracting black student altogether.

Now, I was brought up in a liberal atmosphere, and like I said before, not every black pupil at my old school was bad news. But when you have to endure that sort of maddening situation every day for seven years, it is very difficult to leave without cursing political correctness, perhaps even feeling slightly intolerant of other races...

Please don't all jump on me and brand me racist, but this is my response to the titular question and I bet if any of you had been in the same position as me you would feel the same.