Has political correctness actually gone mad?

Pogue Mahone

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The UK didn't have mandatory reporting already?!

Edit: Wait what, putting that next to collecting ethnicity data of suspects :lol:
It’s so insane. Suspects too. No crime committed. How in earth can that tell them anything useful about anything?!

Whenever you see madness like this always remember that every word had been workshopped, reviewed and signed off. Baffling.
 

Frosty

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There is already a load of mandatory reporting for adults working with children.

I honestly despair at this country.

We have no written constitution, no legal constraints on what Parliament can do, courts cannot declare laws invalid, and the government who has been in power for 13 years keeps complaining it is being stopped from improving the country.
 

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There is already a load of mandatory reporting for adults working with children.

I honestly despair at this country.

We have no written constitution, no legal constraints on what Parliament can do, courts cannot declare laws invalid, and the government who has been in power for 13 years keeps complaining it is being stopped from improving the country.
But it's a core British value - less red tape, more monitoring and punishment.
 

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There is already a load of mandatory reporting for adults working with children.

I honestly despair at this country.

We have no written constitution, no legal constraints on what Parliament can do, courts cannot declare laws invalid, and the government who has been in power for 13 years keeps complaining it is being stopped from improving the country.
I was flabbergasted when I learned this about the UK.
 

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They've lopped of Cerne Abbas's knob to spare people's blushes. Pretty dumb when it's the main reason the chalk giant is so well known.

Cheese company ‘castrates’ Dorset’s Cerne Abbas Giant

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/23562157.cheese-company-castrates-dorsets-cerne-abbas-giant/
Vic Irvine, was "apoplectic"!

"I'm not eating it if the packaging doesn't contain a hard on" he raged. "It's almost as if my own cock's been lopped off".

That's an understatement. With this act we've all lost our willies.
 

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About time sensible moderates cracked down on the snowflake mob


e- for a few months in 2017 I thought left wing censorship is a real problem. Proves I'm as dumb as Rogan.
 
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Gehrman

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About time sensible moderates cracked down on the snowflake mob


e- for a few months in 2017 I thought left wing censorship is a real problem. Proves I'm as dumb as Rogan.
What an idiot from a "free speech champion"
 

Gehrman

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About time sensible moderates cracked down on the snowflake mob


e- for a few months in 2017 I thought left wing censorship is a real problem. Proves I'm as dumb as Rogan.
 

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admittedly I don't pay much attention to all the gender stuff but how the feck is cis a slur nowadays?
 

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I thought cis was pronounced "sy" for ages, just presumed the s was silent. Then I saw a video with someone pronouncing it "sis" and was like "Oh, that's how you say it?"

Probably because I only ever saw it online, I've never heard the word "cisgender" mentioned in real life.
 

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I thought cis was pronounced "sy" for ages, just presumed the s was silent. Then I saw a video with someone pronouncing it "sis" and was like "Oh, that's how you say it?"

Probably because I only ever saw it online, I've never heard the word "cisgender" mentioned in real life.
Ive sat down and like had a beer with about 2 transgender people my entire life and i still havnt heard anyone use that word in real life.
 

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I thought cis was pronounced "sy" for ages, just presumed the s was silent. Then I saw a video with someone pronouncing it "sis" and was like "Oh, that's how you say it?"

Probably because I only ever saw it online, I've never heard the word "cisgender" mentioned in real life.
99.99% of people have never heard it real life, but if you visit twitter, you'd get the idea cisgender is being thrown around as an insult left, right and center. It's an old strategy, if you want to ban conversation, you start by banning specific words that make the discussion impossible.