I agree with a lot of your takes but I can't with this one I'm afraid.

I view it as the continual concession of the right. You give another inch and then they move onto the next and another inch gets taken. It doesn't stop.

It's not a zero tolerance to racism, it's a zero tolerance to a different opinion on what they want.....For example, when you point out that kneeling for black lives matter was itself divisive, racist and made no sense, you're told to shut up.....remember how the treated those who booed kneelers....these people have zero tolerance to more than just 'racism'.

It'll stop when they are policing what you say in your own home......very selectively on who they police I suspect.

Edited by Stirlingsays (10 May 2023 7.55pm)

I'm reminded of an episode of Star Trek where a society who prided itself on harmony sentenced people to death for walking on the grass. They thought it was all fair because the signs were in plain sight and the laws were clear.

We should be careful what we wish for and what we tolerate on our 75ish year watch.

and a few Christians, closer to home, have felt the cold reality of prejudice.

yet somehow, Gary Linekar will not be championing their cause

those old enough to remember know that when PC was introduced it was all framed as being polite and kind to people.......then it progressed to words like offence....then their goto word of 'hate' and now it's about persecuting people and 'zero tolerance'.....all heavily funded.

Edited by Stirlingsays (10 May 2023 8.24pm)

Correct.

The ultimate goal of Political Correctness is to shut you up, while allowing them to say what they want.

Make a childish schoolboy eye-gesture and have Gary Linekar crucify you on national telly - . Call somebody a Gammon.....tumbleweed.

Only a couple of weeks ago I got involved in a discussion with a young chap from Auckland.Suffice to say we were on opposite sides of the political spectrum and had widely differing viewpoints.

I raised his hackles to the extend that the decibel level of his voice increased and he bellowed out a derogatory phrase which referred to me as "Buffalo snot".I informed him that by plummeting to such depths he had comprehensively LOST the argument and was delighted that I had emerged victorious.

The chap,molten with anger, placed his glass on the bar with some force and took off like Usain Bolt in the direction of the exit, muttering words which I could not decipher.