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According to a report from the British Sociological Association (a body comprising professors, lecturers and researchers – and which provides guidance on the use of language to Universities, Colleges and schools), the following words/terms should no longer be used in case they cause offence…
"Old Masters" – sexist
Seminal – sexist
Disseminate – sexist
Immigrant – racist
"Developing nations" – racist
Black – racist
Patient – "Disablist" (would you credit it?)
"The elderly" – disablist
"Special needs" – disablist
"Man on the street" – sexist
Brainstorm – will offend people with epilepsy! ("Epilepsyist"?)
"Chinese whisper" – racist
<b>CIVILISED</b> – racist
"Able bodied" – "disablist" – "should use "non-disabled".You’d think it was an April Fools joke (if that term is allowable – wouldn’t want to be "foolist") – but no. These people get paid for spouting this sh!*e.
Unbelievable and this list is something that people would have laughed about years ago if it was on a Monty Python show. What has happened to common sense? These people have nothing productive to do but have to do something to justify the existence of their association.
How is ‘civilised’ racist
If black is racist then how about white
My Chinese friends will laugh at the notion that Chinese Whispers is racist
If it is then why have they not included Russian Roulette….it’s actually dangerousWhy should the elderly be thought of as disablist.
Oh I give up – what a bunch of idiots
Pete
A fine example of what people who don’t have a proper job can get up to if you don’t make them redundant.
I hope this erstwhile organisation receives no public funding, if it does such funding should be stopped forthwith.
I don’t want my taxes being frittered on these imbecilic cretins and I couldn’t give a toss if my description is PC or not.
Hope that works; today’s Daily Telegraph.
What the meat of the articles is saying is that this list is sent to prospective writers of social science books for a publisher based in Bristol University, it has also been namechecked by a handful of other universities and a school in Norwich. As such it’s hardly far reaching and the end of the world as we know it as the article and the rabid comments following on seem to think it is. If the Telegraph hadn’t drawn attention to it to whip up it’s readers into a self righteous fervour it would have (rightly,) disappeared without trace.
What they should be more concerned about is that sociology as an academic discipline is a load of pseudo-scientific sh#te.
It’s interesting to see that the BSA website is currently down. It has probably been bombarded by complaints from green-ink Torygraph readers.There is nothing self righteous about the comments from the Telegraph readers who are probably concerned that this so called advice is coming from the British Sociological Association which is a registered charity.
Pete
My point is that why does anyone care what the BSA say about anything? Do you not think that the only reason the Telegraph printed this is to illicit the predictable response from their readers?
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I believe that black boards in schools had to be called chalk boards. As technology has moved on, I now have an ‘interactive white board’ in my classroom!!
Brainstorm – will offend people with epilepsy! ("Epilepsyist"?)
And I thought the title of that Arctic Monkeys song was a typo!
I don’t think there’s anything to say about that report other than- arses.
My point is that why does anyone care what the BSA say about anything? Do you not think that the only reason the Telegraph printed this is to illicit the predictable response from their readers?
Of course it was – that encapsulates the Torygraph’s raison d’etre here to a nicety.
At the same time, however, for folk like me who are staunch, ballsaching defenders of PC, and see it as a weighty, necessary power for good, the BSA have shown what happens when people without the first idea of how to interpret it properly attempt to do so.
See also the county council in the West Midlands, who a few years ago banned the word "ambitious" from job advertisements on account of it being disablist. I can’t even begin to work out the thought process that arrived at that decision.
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As someone who wears glasses i am amazed to see that the phrase "Specky Four Eyes" is not included.
To be fair though if i do get called that my response is normally "Yeah i might have four eyes but your still twice as F~@?:ng Ugly"
And this is from the British Sociological Associartion, should the word "British" be taken out incase it deeply upsets our Muslim friends.
One thing which really winds me up though is when things get banned on the basis that "Incase it upsets Muslims",now if it did then surely they have their own voice to object to it but instead some overpaid pratt in an office on a very absurd sallery has decided that they know what all Muslims are thinking and insted of asking Muslims about it they think for them.
So that itself is stupid if white middle class office workers believe that they know what all Muslims are thinking.
I believe that black boards in schools had to be called chalk boards. As technology has moved on, I now have an ‘interactive white board’ in my classroom!!
Surely it should just be an ‘interactive board’? If black board is not permitted, shouldn’t the same apply to white?
Have to agree with you Marble.
There are people on this forum that make there opinions about you depending on what news paper you decide to pick up in the morning.Oh ! and as for the word "black" being deemed as racist. I mentioned that two years ago and got shot down for even sudgesting such a thin.
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If it is then why have they not included Russian Roulette….it’s actually dangerous
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