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Originally posted by kevinT
I don't normally post these sort of things but after hearing the most absurd ruling on the radio this morning I could not contain myself.
Here goes.
A local council in I think the north of England has banned its' employees from using the term "Polically Correct" as it is not Politically Correct to use it!
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I quote: "The term political correctness was coined in 1988 by John O'Sullivan III, who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. He was making an after dinner speech complaining about how Black Americans were being allowed to take the jobs traditionally reserved for the white majority because of a wave of political correctness.
Since then the phrase political correctness has almost universally been used to decry changes which aim to prevent offensive behaviour."
See:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1766
R.