Prescribed "Political Correctness" is an untenable idea.

A system of rules governing what words are acceptable in society is completely inappropriate and unworkable as the parameters vary enormously depending on context.

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The greatest thing about a lot of british humour is its subtlety.

Social and political satire and intelligent humanistic observation are the cornerstone of British humour.

What matters is the motivation behind a comment.

One person might say "I respect foreigners" and yet it is obvious that they are a total bigot.

Another might make a racist joke ... but parody it ... and in the process undo some of the tension that racism causes.

It isn't the words, it's the motivation and the intent.


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Scapegoating and blaming groups of individuals for ones difficulties in life on the basis of their race, religion, sexuality or whatever is completely unacceptable.

If someone deliberately goes out of their way to encourage others to resent minorities, they are breaking British law and if they do it in my company I will make a donkey out of them.

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The motivation behind this thread is to try to associate abhorrance for racism with a catwalk campaign for politically correct language.

The two have nothing to do with each other.

I associate the term "politically correct" with models who use their fingers to denote the quotation marks.