Incantations of Evil
So, I was reading about the crazies again in the newspaper today (not something I usually do, but hey - it's in the smoko room, it's free...), and I saw a radio announcer over there praising Condoleeza Rice. Toward the end, he mentions something similar to 'and having an African-American in such a high role of the government is surely a big coup'. Well, that's what he meant - tongue slipped, 'coup' came out as 'coon'. A second later he was apologising profusely - twenty minutes later the boss comes on the radio to assure people 'there is enough hate', and the man has been sacked.
Bloody crazy. I can't call this 'poltically correct gone too far' - I can think of nothing less to describe it as 'sheer bloody stupidity'. Sacking someone for their tongue slipping? Though it was at the end of a lengthy praise of this women he 'racially slurred'? Though he immediately began apologising, and did so repeatedly? Slip of the tongue is unforgivable (one of the words the boss used), yet stripping someone of their livelihood is not a spiteful act, nor one that would cause more? I suspect next journos will be sacked for any typos, taxi drivers for not knowing every last street of the tens of thousands in their city, ...
While I'm on the subject, 'bloody hell' is an integral part of our language - I can't believe the poms banned 'bloody', and the Canadian 'hell', as too offensive. What's the place coming to when people get so worked up and bloody self-righteous about imagined slights and language? I know I'm harsher in my humour than most here, but I think its probably a lot to do with culture. Being called an idiot here - or calling out to someone with 'hey, c**t' - is as good as any name their parents chose, while it seems in many places it is becoming a call to bloody arms.
This isn't a 'free speech' thing, by the way - it's a 'your all bleeding cuckoo' thing.
Bloody crazy. I can't call this 'poltically correct gone too far' - I can think of nothing less to describe it as 'sheer bloody stupidity'. Sacking someone for their tongue slipping? Though it was at the end of a lengthy praise of this women he 'racially slurred'? Though he immediately began apologising, and did so repeatedly? Slip of the tongue is unforgivable (one of the words the boss used), yet stripping someone of their livelihood is not a spiteful act, nor one that would cause more? I suspect next journos will be sacked for any typos, taxi drivers for not knowing every last street of the tens of thousands in their city, ...
While I'm on the subject, 'bloody hell' is an integral part of our language - I can't believe the poms banned 'bloody', and the Canadian 'hell', as too offensive. What's the place coming to when people get so worked up and bloody self-righteous about imagined slights and language? I know I'm harsher in my humour than most here, but I think its probably a lot to do with culture. Being called an idiot here - or calling out to someone with 'hey, c**t' - is as good as any name their parents chose, while it seems in many places it is becoming a call to bloody arms.
This isn't a 'free speech' thing, by the way - it's a 'your all bleeding cuckoo' thing.