Political Correctness

trust me, JJ, if anyone can do it, I can .

I like how when things get totally whacko lefties say that it's only done to "trigger right wingers". Each way bet.

Because it's FUNNY! And ridiculous!
Well most of it any way.

Its pretty simple. If one person gets offended it is good enough reason to change what ever it is so they don't continue to be offended. That's about it isn't it PT ? What's so difficult to understand 

Great to see this lady at deaths door get her wish to sing our (now changed) National Anthem. Pity old mates Ado, Mitchel & co couldn't find the respect to do same - even after it got changed to suit them

As it should Stayer. What is it with Asians & there own food - almost as if they don't trust our stuff out here. And most of that stuff they confiscate looks appalling 

Which one did I say wasn't offensive?

Passing Through wrote: Which one did I say wasn't offensive?

Huh? You said something about "worth getting offended over". Who judges that? You?

That'll be a long wait, PT. I wouldn't presume to know, and I don't get outraged by much.

So why did they change the name Bob, and who was offended by the name?

Baghdad Bob wrote: That renaming of Coon cheese was the biggest joke of all. The was name derived from the American cheesemaker Edward Coon of Philadelphia, who patented a method in the US in 1926 for fast maturation of cheese via high temperature and humidity.

No Bob. The biggest joke of all was a bunch of indigenous NRL players digging their heels in to not sing our National Anthem before a Test Match - then get their way to have changes made - & now still turn their noses up by not singing it. And the biggest laugh are the administrators who facilitated the whole thing only to be made to look like dopes. We are pathetic the way we pander to these groups

& if that's the way to the future i am glad my time is getting closer. Lot of feelgood codswallop - about on par with the Britney Spears supporters  

"Treating people with respect and without discrimination is one of our basic principles, and it is imperative that we continue to uphold this in everything we do," Saputo chief executive Lino A Saputo said.

Interesting side-note re words and their meanings. The racist term "coon" was an abbreviation of "raccoon", because the US white racist folk considered raccoons to be lazy, thieving, sneaky, stupid animals etc. Terrible, obviously. (Maybe they should rename the animal, not the cheese named after the bloke. That'd solve it.)
A similar derogatory racist word in the US was "Sambo." Most likely derived from "zambo" - a derogatory term used by Latin Americans to describe dark skinned people of African/ American Indian descent. It came to mean the same thing - lazy, sneaky, stupid etc.
There's a lot of evidence out there that the slaves in US learned to take the pizz out of the "coon"/ "sambo" stereotype. They'd PLAY at being dumb and lazy etc, for their own advantage. It became part of their subculture - "Gee boss, don't know if I can do that" etc. The Mel Brooks movie Blazing Saddles sends it up beautifully, and he was allowed to cross those un-PC lines because he was a Jew who did sketches about Hitler. It still goes on in music culture etc. The Snoop Dog ads for Menulog for example.
There used to be an expression "playing Sambo", which is just like "playing dumb" or "playing possum" - pretend to be dumb/ dead/ asleep etc to get an advantage on or fend off enemies.