“the list, which was originally drawn up by sociologists…”

This really tells you everything you need to know, but, just to make sure that you don’t miss the point, they add “The list of banned words was written by the British Sociological Association, whose members include dozens of professors, lecturers and researchers.”

None of this really comes as a surprise - I’m a low-profile inhabitant of the Ivory Towers of Academe myself. You could fill a book with examples of this sort of stupidity from the professionally intelligent - for instance, there was the Psychology lecturer who forbade her students to use the word “person” because it was sexist - includes the letters S-O-N, you know - or the fellow who objected to awarding a merit-based Bursary, and wanted the funds distributed equally among two hundred students, which would have bought them about two ball-points each, rendering the whole thing completely useless, but would have been properly egalitarian. You get the picture!

Well, this son of an immigrant and regular man in the street is not going to be patient while these idiots disseminate nonsense on black and white issues in order to ruin civilzation (no problem there, I spelled it the American way).

Let them go back to their Old Mistresses.

The NewSpeak types are insane. I really think we should just defy them through conscientious objection. Just don’t give in.

As an able-bodied person, sometime it is difficult to be patient with the elderly, Old Masters, and those with special needs. But the man-on-the-street doesn’t need to experience a brainstorm to understand that whether they are black, white, Central American immigrants, or from a developing nation, people are basically the same and all need to be shown love. Christians need to be ready to desseminate the Gospel and demonstrate a servant’s heart.

The sort of people who come out with lists like this need to be taken out and summarily shot! That would be in accord with the doctrine of Evolutionary Survival of the Fittest. Such drones do nothing to improve society, they just annoy those of us who are actually trying to preserve it in the face of such monumental stupidity! [Wonders when the word "stupid" and "stupidity" will be banned.]

Guess I had better send my master’s degree back for corrections.

If I were a woman, should I have received a mistress’ degree? Would that be morally better than an MRS degree? Or is this all an academic question?

If they ever wonder where their empire went, they can start looking here…

I live in Georgia, (US, not Soviet).

Why is that in every crisis, things are described as “going south”?

I would like to call on the MCJ to lead the effort to remove this odious insult to all of us who live South of the Mason/Dixon line from the American lexicon!

See Britain now, before you have to either make Shahada or pay a pro-rated Jizyat to enter the United Caliphate.

Oh, jolly good one that, Ed! Jolly good!

‘Tis nothing, m’lud.

It seems a bit legalistic, like they are trying to build a hedge around political correctness. I believe one of the ancient rabbis thought that throwing dish water out the window on the sabbath should be illegal, since it might water some seeds, in which case that person would be ‘farming’ and hence working on the sabbath. This document seems to present a similar weird obsessive imbalance. They take one part of the Tao, rip it out, and inflate it out of all proportion to the other parts, as CS Lewis once noted.

One question that remains open. When Sharia law goes into effect, will the BSA be able to persuade the Caliphate to ban the word ‘Dhimmi’? I’d imagine the non-Muslims would find that offensive.

“…will the BSA be able to persuade the Caliphate to ban the word ‘Dhimmi’? I’d imagine the non-Muslims would find that offensive.” Call me a pessimist, but somehow I can’t help but think that the Caliph of Britain will give a rat’s patootie what the soon-to-be-extinct non-Muslims will or will not find offensive.

I’m sorely tempted to tell these idiots what to do with themselves with several banned words.

It’s interesting how EnglishPC differs from American PC.

Applying american pc rules, blacks would be called African-English (I guess the word ‘black’ is supposed to have inherently negative connotations), and non-non-disabled people would be referred to as ‘differently abled’ people. That makes more sense than ‘non-disabled’, since ‘non-disabled’ still contains the offensive term ‘disabled’.

And feminists here have been using the term ‘Ovumars’ for decades.

“Help doctor! My leg is differently abled! Please give me a plaster Hindu-society-that-should-be-egalitarian!”

Things I shall never forget: a newspaper which ran a business article that described a firm as being in the African-American that year, and the charming nitwit who breathlessly announced that someone was the first African-American from any country to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics.

I suffer from a mental illness called Borderline Personality Disorder. For the past ten years or so, I have been experiencing the fun of a system that insists on treating me as a “mental-health-care consumer” rather than a patient.

I am also a student, although many educational institutions down here in Australia are increasingly coming to the view that we are not students but educational consumers. Fortunatly the private Catholic liberal arts school I attend continues to insist on treating us as students.

Do these people truly believe any of this will matter to their overlords once the Muslim transformation of Britain is complete?

I suspect you have been snookered on this one. After all, it puports to be from the BS Association (British Sociological Association). If they were serious about this, they would have to ban their own name.

Sorry for not reading the comments before posting. My point was already ably covered.

Sociologists…ugh! Having dismissed the greatest academic wastes of space and air for what they all are, I remember my last British Airways flight from Glasgow to Toronto. I was reading aloud to my companion some of the positively hilarious mangled English which passes for BA’s inflight magazine (whatever it’s called!). “Well,” I remember commenting, “we can all be VERY relieved that the future of the English language no longer rests in the hands of the English.”

I had no idea at the time that my psychic abilities were so acute!

Tell me again why we saved the English from Germany?

Bill S. the “going south” phrase goes back to the time of the Slave Power. Slaves who were unbiddable were “sold South” to the death camp plantations in the furthest southern States.

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