tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post113818476750372084..comments2024-03-29T10:48:06.521+00:00Comments on Nanny Knows Best: Freedom of SpeechKen Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13568488818950912374noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-1138191821497244922006-01-25T12:23:00.000+00:002006-01-25T12:23:00.000+00:00Isn't Nanny very odd, overlooking remarks such as ...Isn't Nanny very odd, overlooking remarks such as this (remarks, by the way, which I am in complete agreement with) uttered by a Muslim, yet if I, an ordinary white, middle aged male and longterm UK citizen, uttered them I would be pilloried.<BR/><BR/>It is being argued by some, quite correctly, that this PC nonsense is stiffling reasoned and proper debate about issues which concern us, such as health, crime, immigration, taxation, the current reliance on the Nanny state by some (well... actually... many).<BR/><BR/>The Institute for the study of Civic Society is also arguing these points, and I feel in complete concurrence with them (their website is at www.civitas.org.uk).<BR/><BR/>They state "Anthony Browne argues in 'The Retreat of Reason' that political correctness, which classifies certain groups of people as victims in need of protection from criticism and allows no dissent to be expressed, is poisoning the wells of debate in modern Britain.<BR/><BR/>Members of the public, academics, journalists and politicians are afraid of thinking certain thoughts. Political correctness started in academia, but it now dominates schools, hospitals, local authorities, the civil service, the media, companies, the police and the army.<BR/><BR/>Since 1997 Britain has been ruled by political correctness for the first time. Anthony Browne describes political correctness as a 'heresy of liberalism' under which 'a reliance on reason has been replaced with a reliance on the emotional appeal of an argument'. Adopting certain positions makes the politically correct feel virtuous, even more so when they are preventing the expression of an opinion that conflicts with their own: 'political correctness is the dictatorship of virtue'." Well said, as far as I am concerned!!<BR/><BR/>On a personal note, I do agree that there can be some recognition of long standing 'same sex' relationships, but as for civil partnerships being considered the equal to a conventional marriage between a heterosexual couple, I can state here that, having been married (to a woman!!) for nearly 28 years, nothing is as equal, and my wife and I find it quite offensive that they should be considered equal in the eyes of the law.spivhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13404364711838124485noreply@blogger.com