It's good to see the UK is not the only place where official stupidity is rife.
This week's Idiot Award goes to the Australian cricket chiefs, who have decided that 'whingeing Pom' is a racist insult and therefore illegal. The Australian cricket fans can still call us 'Poms' as long as they say it nicely.
Is the world now populated with weak-willed, feeble-minded crybabys? Every day there seems to be a public outcry, even riots, over nothing more than a little name-calling. Shouldn't we all have grown out of running to Mummy's skirts by now?
The Australians have called us 'Whingeing Poms' since their country was formed. The Americans have called us 'Limeys' for centuries. Other countries have their slang names for us, and the UK has slang names for them. It doesn't upset anyone--well, not anyone with any shred of self-esteem.
Infants are allowed to bawl at name calling. Adults who do the same need to be taken aside and sat on the Naughty Step for half an hour, and roundly slapped by all who pass by while they're there.
It's time to grow up. Worry about knives, bombs and guns. Stop throwing childish tantrums over name-calling. For God's sake, stop making it illegal. That just reinforces the childishness.
You don't hear the average American crying and screaming every time someone calls them a 'Yank'. Australians (the sensible ones) can even laugh off the British referring to them as 'convicts'.
I don't care if the rebel colonists across the Atlantic refer to me as 'limey'. I don't care if the spawn of criminals from Down Under call me a 'whingeing Pom'. Call me all the names you want, as long as you don't get upset when you find out I'm better at it than you are.
Children respond to name-calling with their 'Sticks and stones...' chant, and then they forget all about it. More and more adults respond by crying out for public apology and legislation.
Which is the more mature response here?
4 comments:
This Yank, likes the Limey sense of humor.
This is the stuff grown men and women spend their precious days on? What names to call someone? Sheesh!
Many people spend far too much time (and taxpayer's money)deciding what we can and cannot call each other. It has reached the point where, if you see someone step into the path of a speeding car, you cannot call out to them unless you happen to know their name. If you call out anything else, you risk being arrested for 'offensive language'.
If you let the car hit them, you're in the clear.
This is the world of political correctness. The police spend more time investigating name-calling than murder now.
We have an offence in the UK known as 'wasting police time'. If that were enforced, a lot of politicians would be in prison.
Political correctness has gone way too far. We're losing our sense of humor.
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