So, was talking to one of my oldest friends today who happens to work in a pre-school, she was telling me all about Political Correctness and the things that she can and can't do. For instance, no child is allowed to lose...
Now correct me if I am wrong but isn't that sending out the wrong message to a whole generation of children? Whether you as parents like it or not, life is never fair, not by a long shot. But a small minority of you and the government (because those in power are quite frankly stupid enough to listen to you), are effectively telling your children that they will win at everything life. The only good thing that this will achieve is a rise in the number of therapists and psychologists wishing to earn a living. Life is not fair, life is a gift given to you by whoever you believe in to teach you lessons, to teach you how to be strong. My own personal belief is that one should live life to the best of their abilities, to make the most of what is given to you (whether you do or not is entirely up to you, which is why we are given free will). Now whether or not you agree is beside the point, what I am doing is using this example to demonstrate that Political Correctness has gone too far.
Further proof is nursery rhymes, my friend was telling me that she wasn't allowed to sing Baa Baa Black Sheep, and instead had to sing Baa Baa White Sheep. How did a simple nursery rhyme that is AGE old, become racist? Now correct me if I am wrong but...Don't we have black sheep and white sheep? Do you go out to fields and see sheep's segregating from each other because of the colour of their wool? No, you don't. But the heart of is, is that it is considered racist. But, if we are going by this line of reasoning, isn't it just as racist to sing Baa Baa White Sheep? I mean after all, the point still stands, white is still a colour, still a race. Reverse racism doesn't work, by its own definition its racist. Now I myself am Chinese and I find the whole concept not only appalling but quite laughable. It is again sending the wrong message to children. I personally have never used the colour of my skin to start arguments, used it like it should be something that people should be aware off. All I ask is that you treat me as a PERSON, a person with opinions and a brain, a person whom you would treat your friend or an acquaintance. I don't want to be treated specially because of something as irrelevant as the colour of my skin, treat me on my abilities its as simple as that (of course there will always be those who are ignorant and don't know any better which case chances are they aren't educated enough).
Another nursery rhyme that quite simply put, astounds me, is Humpty Dumpty. Now correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Humpty Dumpty...an Egg? If he is, then please explain to me how an egg can be offensive to fat people?! This GENUINELY astounds me, I absolutely cannot put my head around a simple egg being offensive to fat people. People PLEASE use your head! Where has the common sense in this world gone?
It is an appalling state of affairs when the public no longer use their own head and instead have a sheep mentality. Why were we given the ability to think if people don't use their brains? Its what its there for. Society has certainly gone down hill in the last few decades and I for one am sorry for it, we have become selfish, out for what we can get for OUR selves, those pockets of selflessness are unfortunately now few and far between. Have we as a nation become so self involved and so materialistic that we have forgotten what it is like to sit around a dinner table as a family to discuss the day? or take a day out and do nothing? Personally, I think it has and I am sorry for it.
(as a side note I would also like to add that the stupidity of people will always astound me...Today I discovered that someone had stolen the back windscreen wiper of my car. Just goes to show that people will steal anything nowadays. Incidentally, the jokes on whoever stole it because the wiper needed replacing any ways)
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