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Wtf has acme to do with it?
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Otherwise known as a leak....
Really?
A policy of wanting to avoid language or behaviour that can be seen as excluding, marginalising, or insulting groups of people considered disadvantaged or discriminated against prevented a junior control room operator from questioning the actions of a politically more senior person?
Can't see how that would work.
Are you sure it wasn't just a culture of rigid deference to rank?
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My mate went a few year back. He said it was absolutely amazing he was glowing.
It was deference to political rank even though the politically higher ranked person had little if any engineering knowledge.
Such a thing could never happen here? hahaha
"Professor David Nutt, the government's chief drug adviser, has been sacked a day after claiming that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol.
Nutt incurred the wrath of the government when he claimed in a paper that alcohol and tobacco were more harmful than many illegal drugs, including LSD, ecstasy and cannabis..."
"Alcohol ranks as the fifth most harmful drug after heroin, cocaine, barbiturates and methadone. Tobacco is ranked ninth," he wrote in the paper from the centre for crime and justice studies at King's College, London, published yesterday.
"Cannabis, LSD and ecstasy, while harmful, are ranked lower at 11, 14 and 18 respectively."
Nutt said tonight he was disappointed by the decision but linked it to "political" considerations. "It's unusual political times, I suppose, elections and all that. It's disappointing," he told Sky News. "But politics is politics and science is science and there's a bit of a tension between them sometimes."
"Nutt clashed with Jacqui Smith when she was home secretary after he compared the 100 deaths a year from horseriding with the 30 deaths a year linked to ecstasy."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/oct/30/drugs-adviser-david-nutt-sacked
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I did read somewhere (source not traced) that more people in the Chernobyl area have died from alcohol abuse than the effects of the disaster
What has that to do with political correctness?
When you live in a socialist / communist country such as East Germany was then "political correctness" means nothing more than obeying the political heirarchy of the country and the organisations in that country.
It has nothing to do with the modern use of the phrase "politically correct" which would be better written as politely correct.
It has nothing to do with the modern use of the phrase "politically correct" which would be better written as politely correct.
Hmmm...
That does not alter what we mean by the term today.
The term "political correctness gone mad" is used to describe criticism of something by someone who mistakenly thinks that that something is/was politically incorrect.
So, telling someone that it is not "political correctness gone mad", because that something is not actually political correctness, may be technically correct but just avoids the issue of people thinking genuine criticism should not be voiced.
The term "political correctness gone mad" is used to describe criticism of something by someone who mistakenly thinks that that something is/was politically incorrect.
So, telling someone that it is not "political correctness gone mad", because that something is not actually political correctness, may be technically correct but just avoids the issue of people thinking genuine criticism should not be voiced.
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