[talkSAFT]

I can picture the PC Brigade stroking their beards, pondering over this point (that I was reading in today's paper):-

"The Students Union have banned the wearing of sombreros, which they say is racist" !!!!

This is now lowering the levels of what's ridiculous.
(Would PC condemn, or raise a fuss, if they found out that some Mexicans were wearing kilts at a New Years Eve party? Are "Irish Jokes" banned forthwith? Can we complain to the Police when Blues fans start that "Yam Yam" chant?... and as for calling all Swansea fans sheep-shaggers!!!)

The point I'd make is that there's only one adjective for the word offended
99% of black people would rightly be offended at monkey chants, and the word offended would be accurate....
(say) 2% of French people might be fractionally offended by being called "Frogs"....
(say) 50% of Italians would rightly be offended when our comedians joke that they're all cowards....
(say) 1% of "Yanks" (am I allowed to say "Yanks") might be slightly offended at being labelled Big Mouths....

But one Mexican in 130 million might be slightly offended by a Party-goer at an English Students Ball wearing a sombrero (presumably with a droopy moustache and poncho). That one person, though, is enough to make PC people absolutely correct when the Students Union pillock (am I allowed to call him* that word?) claim that the 1 person might be offended and, therefore, it can be described as "racist".

* Whoops - it might have been a "her" or even a "cross-gender" person.

The PC Brigade must be the most self-satisfied smug people on Earth. But they seem to rule these days.

Give us some more examples of ridiculous PC statements, and how they've killed this Country's proud freedom of speech.