steveo wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
And they allow a BNP thing to do hospital work.
Since when has somebodies political view mattered to being a driver?
It is called "political correctness". If you aren't a paid up member of the politically correct club then you are viewed as being a non conformist. The political correct society is mainly made up of politicians, idealists and minority groups, they sometimes think they own the civil rights to the enshrined commodities we label free speech and freedom of thought.
These people feel threatened because they find it reprehensible that anyone should hold a different view to their own.
Political correctness is bordering on the concept of McCarthyism.
The Muslim religion is one such organisation that readily springs to mind. Their treatment of Salman Rushdie is well documented. We are all aware of the politically correct death sentence that was placed upon his head by these religious fanatics with a price tag of two million dollars.
Mr. Rushdie's only crime was not having the forethought to realize the level of hostility his thought provoking comments might create. This was certainly the case in those ultra fanatical religious quarters of the Muslim world where in most part they still live their lives in a reflection of first century.
Another sad part about this episode was the mindless shooting of Rushdie’s Norwegian publisher.
Anyone who questions the validity of the Koran, or the myth or reality of the Muslim religion in the way Mr. Rushdie did, is more often than not labeled an infidel.
"The world has very little to gain from political correctness or indeed from people with closed minds".
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