Monday - August 17, 2009

How seriously stupid does one have to be, to seriously buy into this? Pretty damn stupid!

I could use the entire page filled with bats for this short article spotted in one of our morning papers.
OK, what word is next?  Any suggestions out there? Any word that may possibly stereotype or offend?

Funny thing, I’ve heard this word all my life, so have you, and I’d bet not one of us (I haven’t) ever associated it with any stereotype, person or object. 

These jerks are clinically STUPID! Anyone who indulges in PC is clinically stupid and beyond any help.

The word Blacklisting, is banned:

Citizens Advice axes ‘offensive’ word and tells staff to use ‘blocklisting’ instead

By Daniel Bates
Last updated at 12:13 AM on 17th August 2009

The Citizens Advice service has banned staff from using the term ‘ blacklisting’ over fears that it is offensive and ‘fosters stereotypes’.

The taxpayer- funded quango, which advises members of the public on consumer, legal and money issues, has instead replaced it with ‘blocklisting’ to avoid appearing ‘prejudicial’.

The two terms are both used in IT to mean the same thing. They refer to what are effectively lists of computers or computer networks which have been identified as sending spam and enable mail servers to ban or flag up mail sent from them.
Banned: The Citizens Advice service has replaced the word ‘blacklisting’ with the word ‘blocklisting’. Both are IT terms to mean the same thing

Banned: The Citizens Advice service has replaced the word ‘blacklisting’ with the word ‘blocklisting’. Both are IT terms to mean the same thing

Emails to members of staff at the service say the move has been made to keep ‘in line with aims and principles of the Citizens Advice service’.

Critics branded it ‘daft’ and ‘political correctness going over the top’, but the Citizens Advice has refused to back down, even though critics say it renders everyday communications unintelligible.

An email about internet spam sent from IT systems to staff and volunteers who help at Citizens Advice’s 3,000 locations, reads: ‘We have replaced the term “blacklisting” with “blocklisting” in line with the aims and principles of the Citizens Advice service. You are probably aware that the whole service’s email has been intermittently blocked up to twice this week for some time now.

‘This is because spam sent from within the service causes us all to be blocklisted.’

The ban on blacklisting applies across the whole of Citizens Advice. A former volunteer said banning blacklisting was ‘the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen’ and has stopped helping at his local branch because of it. John Midgley, co-founder of the campaign against political correctness, said: ‘This is just daft and another example of political correctness going over the top.’

A spokesman for the service said: ‘Our approach to language is not prescriptive or dogmatic, but where we know or become aware that something is offensive, fosters stereotypes or prejudice, or is inaccurate, it makes sense and is respectful to use alternatives.’

MORE PC MADNESS

* Newcastle City Council banned staff from using common Geordie greetings such as pet and love when dealing with the public over fears they might be regarded as offensive.

* Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire even banned staff from using the words ‘political correctness’ at work in case it offended anyone. An equality policy booklet claimed using the term at work can be damaging - and even linked it to the Ku Klux Klan.

* Birmingham City Council ordered pupils not to be taught the nursery rhyme Baa Baa black sheep in case it was racially offensive, but later backed down.

SOURCE IS THE DAILY MAIL

Posted by peiper     on 08/17/2009 at 03:33 AM   
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