Fight Political Correctness

Political correctness started with words like Chairman being changed to Chair in order not to upset women who might be offended by the masculinity of the word. Such changes are jokes since Chairman signifies only the title given to a person who chairs a meeting. Indeed I suppose it started even before then when for example rat catchers become rodent operators or whatever. As usual we have to blame our American cousins for this nonsense but the idea that you could change the way people thought by changing the original meaning of words has been used by bullies of the left to try and dominate our behaviour. The word 'gay' is a case in point. You would not now wish to use the word to describe someone heterosexual who was bright and happy as it would label that person as a homosexual in the minds of your listeners. We are cowed into a kind of submission so that we cannot call a spade a spade not only for fear of offending a member of the shovel society but just in case it might be against the law. Political correctness is insidious and eats away at free speech. It also enables propagandists of global warming and the euro to bludgeon those of us who do not accept the so called science related to global warming nor the benefits of the euro as the one and only 'truth'. We need dissenters and neither dissenters nor their voices should be silenced since contrary opinions must be heard and respected for they can often be right. Christopher Booker has an excellent article on this which you can read here. There really needs to be a Society of the Politically Incorrect. Who wants to be the first chairman?