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From the page: "In September 2006, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, Codie Stott, asked a teacher if she could sit with another group to do a science project as all the girls with her spoke only Urdu. The teacher's first response, according to Stott, was to scream at her: "It's... more
Reviewed by eastcoast-fu Apr 22 2009, 07:47am ( 11 reviews ) • news.com.au
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Rated by stevedtrm on May 03 2009, 9:55pm
From the page: "The Government is pushing ahead with legislation that will criminalise politically incorrect jokes, with a maximum punishment of up to seven years' prison. The House of Lords tried to insert a free-speech amendment, but Justice Secretary Jack Straw knocked it out. It was Straw who previously called for a redefinition of Englishness and suggested the "global baggage of empire" was linked to soccer violence by "racist and xenophobic white males". He claimed the English "propensity for violence" was used to subjugate Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and that the English as a race were "potentially very aggressive". A 10-year-old child was arrested and brought before a judge, for having allegedly called an 11-year-old boya "Paki" and "bin Laden" during a playground argument at a primary school (the other boy had called him a skunk and a Teletubby). When it reached the court the case had cost taxpayers pound stg. 25,000. The accused was so distressed that he had stopped attending school. The judge, Jonathan Finestein, said: "Have we really got to the stage where we are prosecuting 10-year-old boys because of political correctness? There are major crimes out there and the police don't bother to prosecute. This is nonsense." "
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Rated by CharlesHB on Apr 24 2009, 1:26am
Labour only dropped the economic socialism, when it morphed into Nu Labour - not the social engineering that characterised the Labour party's politics; much like they believe the government knows better when it comes to how I should spend my money, they also believe they know better when it comes to how I should think.
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Rated by robfrap on Apr 22 2009, 7:35pm
I thought political correctness was too extreme in the US. I'm all for equality, but this is some serious New World Order stuff. Well, maybe not. But it's still serious.
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Reviewed by ashoe27 on Apr 22 2009, 8:47am
This is kind of scary - with this kind of enforcing, it ends up that nobody really has rights but the people in charge of enforcing things.
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Rated by RhettisStumbling on Apr 22 2009, 8:39am
This is the end of the world.
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Rated by jajajayu on Apr 22 2009, 7:47am
"If you are a black vegetarian Muslim asylum-seeking one-legged lesbian lorry driver, I want the same rights as you." How many Brits does it take to screw themselves?
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Rated by eastcoast-fu on Apr 22 2009, 7:47am
From the page: "In September 2006, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, Codie Stott, asked a teacher if she could sit with another group to do a science project as all the girls with her spoke only Urdu. The teacher's first response, according to Stott, was to scream at her: "It's racist, you're going to get done by the police!" Upset and terrified, the schoolgirl went outside to calm down. The teacher called the police and a few days later, presumably after officialdom had thought the matter over, she was arrested and taken to a police station, where she was fingerprinted and photographed. According to her mother, she was placed in a bare cell for 3 1/2 hours. She was questioned on suspicion of committing a racial public order offence and then released without charge. The school was said to be investigating what further action to take, not against the teacher, but against Stott. Headmaster Anthony Edkins reportedly said: "An allegation of a serious nature was made concerning a racially motivated remark. We aim to ensure a caring and tolerant attitude towards pupils of all ethnic backgrounds and will not stand for racism in any form."" Soft totalitarianism.
