Political Correctness

The latest and most ludicrous import from the United States so far has been the wave of political correctness, gratefully embraced by the British Unionist Labour Party to prove to the Islington morons their moral position on the 'socialist' high ground. As a stance for the liberalisation and democratisation of society, it has become difficult to issue any criticism of this most dangerous of moral controls. To be seen as politically incorrect in the current climate of Blair's "total control" is to be viewed as a dangerous dinosaur, to be ushered to extinction in the shortest possible timescale. But what does political correctness actually offer to a modern Scottish society?

It is a form of moral communism which should have followed the political version into the wilderness. Stating quite clearly that everyone is the same, regardless of race, creed, colour, size, intelligence or ability is a laudable notion, but takes no notice of the realities of life. Life without differences means the ultimate in blandness. How long will it be before we all have to have the same hair colour or style, or to dress the same, so no one feels slighted by another's dress sense? Ring any bells? Little red book, anyone? (Apologies for that colourist remark, of course in this enlightened era of Blairdom, a reference to an archaic form of political coloration is such a faux pas.... if not a potential crime....)

The fact is that people are different, and the differences should be celebrated, not repressed. Would a person of the opposite gender feel more offended if you held a door open for them (common politeness) or let it slam in their face (common rudeness)? There's nothing sexist about manners. They help us all get along together, and a bit more basic polite consideration all round would do away with any need for the PC police to keep grinding our faces in their moronic nonsenses. They have even launched an attack on marriage with the ludicrous Clause 28 fiasco, claiming that mentioning marriage at all can somehow make children from "other relationships" feel less worthy. Yet the law itself enshrines a relationship as a "common-law" marriage in Scotland if it lasts longer than six months - so where's the sense in this? Is marriage any less of a relationship than any other merely because it has been formalised by either a religious or civil ceremony?

As for the politically correct policy in schools of removing any trace of competitiveness - how are teenagers supposed to cope when faced with real life in the jobs market? If they haven't learned to compete a bit at school, then they are going to struggle when they enter the rat-race. And now we hear of a Job Centre being told that they cannot ask for "ambitious and hardworking" people to apply for the jobs they advertise. This has got to be the very height of stupidity. Are employers seriously expected to interview people with no ambition or intention of working at all? They might as well go bust now as bother employing anyone if that's the state of the job market. The British Unionist Labour Party's policy of turning Scotland into a tartan fantasyland for tourists (who can't afford to come here anyway because of the strength of sterling) is creating a nation of no-hopers, fit only for jobs in multi-national fast food outlets at slave wages, or working in call centres because the English condescendingly prefer a Scottish accent to one of their own. But we mustn't complain - after all, are we not just the same as all our other British chums? Strange how the government seems to bend over backwards to accommodate all the vagaries of culture inherent in their large immigrant population, yet can't find any space left for the original culture of the indigenous population. But then, that's a politically incorrect thought, as these days we are all part of the great British melting pot, where foreign culture is lauded at the expense of the remnants of our own.

There are many cultural differences among the peoples of Europe, and most of us go on holiday to enjoy the difference from our usual background culture. What's the point of going to Spain to eat "traditional English breakfasts" and drink in a "British" bar, complete with bulldog signs and bloody awful English beer? Look for where the locals drink, and not only will you make new friends, but also enjoy something different from your usual. This applies to most countries. I once emerged from an Indonesian restaurant in Amsterdam to watch a crowd of Americans flocking from their bus into a McDonald's, and remember wondering why the hell they had bothered coming to Holland in the first place, if that was going to be the level of their culinary experimentation. Travel is supposed to broaden the mind, not limit the opportunities for new experiences. If political correctness is carried to its logical extreme, there will be no point in going anywhere, as eventually we will all look, dress and speak the same, and mindlessly follow the same political dogma (can't you just see Tone getting excited and grinning....)

In short, we must start to kick back against this mindless drivel. If we want to maintain the differences between people and nations which make life more interesting and varied, say no to political correctness and its moronic devotees.


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