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Originally Posted by basil ransome-davies
For once I wish for a verse comp. All doo respeck, as Paulie Walnuts would say, I fear this one invites the bleedin' obvious. Also, mockery or denunciation of 'political correctness' has tended to be a cudgel with which knee-jerk motormouth bigots (Richard Littlejohn, Jeremy Clarkson, Taki, etc. in the UK) attack attitudes of broad empathy & open-minded understanding of the 'other'.
I'll have a go anyway, but my heart won't be in it.
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I agree, Bazza. I'm a sincere believer in political correctness myself, and I think the term was invented primarily to give bigoted and unkind people a seemingly principled way to respond to those who would call them on it.
But that doesn't mean we can't indulge in a bit of self-mockery from time to time.
(I do happen to believe, by the way, that everyone should have run to help the boy who cried wolf even if the boy had lied in the past. For me, the real moral is that all alarms must be answered, even if many of them are false.)