Meddling Britain Home of the Politically Correct

Dear Reader,

Welcome to my first serious blog post, its highly controversial and is mainly about politically correct britain in a strictly non-racist sense.

Have you ever watched the television, read the newspaper or perhaps visited a website which used the phrase “political correctness gone mad”, now we all know that this phrase is a common get-out for racists, bigots and people in the public eye that can’t resist shovelling both feet into their mouths but what about the common person.

You can look anywhere in the media today and find issues where everyday activities such as nursery rhymes, phrases and even history is filed away on a shelf and wrapped in vacuum sealed bubble-wrap bags to make sure they do not offend a particular niche in society. One example of this is “brainstorming”, it’s now a thought shower (and has been for the past decade) which is not that bad and I suppose a particularly stagnant issue because the original term was not particularly descriptive of the process and might offend people with mental illness or epilepsy. One small issue I hear the liberals calling, an infringement of our human rights the right-wing bay however it is generally the common “man in the middle” that shrugs their shoulders and moves on.

Next we have slave labour, a particularly strong issue with a much harder impact upon a more diverse and multi-cultural society. Local UK councils are lining up to “put their pasts behind them” because they are seen to be unsavoury and sordid affairs. Young children used to work in mines, our Irish cousins were practically starved for rebellion and nothing substantial is mentioned in classrooms or town hall’s about apologising however these issues were not as long-lived or in the public eye as slave labour. Whilst I agree slave labour is important to be talked about by scholars and historians I think it only right to point out that many wonders of the world were accomplished with slave labour such as the pyramids (which have definitely never been apologised for). The problem with slave labour is the fact that we are selectively apologetic, a trait english people are renowned for within history. We also neglect the facts of slave labour! A French historian Fernand Braudel noted that slavery was a part of the structure of everyday life in africa. “Slavery came in different disguises in different societies: there were court slaves, slaves incorporated into princely armies, domestic and household slaves, slaves working on the land, in industry, as couriers and intermediaries, even as traders” (Braudel 1984 p. 435). Oh some people may say that “we should have known better” but being ex roman slaves ourselves we should have risen above such savage and cruel ways. While this is true I believe this is yet another issue in which we are quick to judge our peers whilst being willfully ignorant of our own slave roots and of our complicity in high street labels support of such activities involving brands such as “Primark” and “Nike”.

In recent years we have stirred up another hornets nest, a war on the east, eastern culture and values in Russia, China, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan etc have been blasted for as long as I have watched the news. After the start of the first world war we were quick to point the finger at Germany for using “Concentration Camps”, which were both a British invention during the Boer War and still used until around 1949. We are a quick nation to judge and point fingers however we are a slow nation to take action of dignified and righteous justice. Recently we complained of chemical weapons we sold to Iraq when they became “too savage” for us to be seen to possess.

My point good people is this, political correctness is not happening, it’s not going mad it’s over the brink I’m afraid and it has already happened, our children are already learning foreign languages to support children and adults that speak foreign languages, our street posts are forever changed to support Urdu and Hindi and some of these things are good, Learning a new language at a young age is easier. It does however tend to lower the quality of both languages learned, some people cannot read or even speak english despite it being the second most widely used language in the world and some people do feel threatened because of what we do and say, even if it was to their great great great great great great grandparents so we should watch what we say or else you never know, we might cause someone somewhere discomfort (conveniently forgetting that discomfort is a constructive process if dealt with correctly)!
Thanks for reading please feel free to post your responses as long as they are not racist this is not a pro BNP speech I feel that one fascist world power per century is perfectly enough thanks.

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