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No, I wasn't the least bit offended by anything, just making a suggestion as to why such political correctness may have manifested itself in such a way in South Africa.

Anybody familiar with the race history of South Africa would know that under the apartheid system, color was everything. Every South African had to carry what was colloquially called a book of life. It was mandatory, and stated your race, eye color, skin color, parents race, ancestry etc. Apartheid only ended in the 1990's, so it may explain some sensitivity to anything that uses color as a descriptor. Maybe too, the sound similarity between the Afrikaans word for coffee "Koffie" and the highly offensive Afrikaans word for black people "Kaffir", may be too close to the bone for a society trying to reconcile its past?

By the way. For those of you who love Beef Jerky recipes, see if you can get hold of some genuine South African Biltong. I used to work with a South African guy who had a friend that made it here in Oz. It was excellent :Y: Apparently the best Biltong is made from Ostrich, so maybe Emu would turn out similar?
 
reefer said:
Goldfreak... :mad: What we got from the Irish...is 25%of the present day population of this Nation who are proud to claim Irish Heritage...Don't worry, I'm not offended... just very proud to include myself in the above 25%. :cool:
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I have no Irish in me unless the name Oleary is Irish? If so my mother has some explaining to do.
 
Black lives matter is the catch cry of our time, and of course it is so true.A plane tows a sign saying white lives matter over a soccer field where all the players were kneeling and the world screems RACIST.
Go figger, its got me stuffed
Jim
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Goldfreak said:
reefer said:
Goldfreak... :mad: What we got from the Irish...is 25%of the present day population of this Nation who are proud to claim Irish Heritage...Don't worry, I'm not offended... just very proud to include myself in the above 25%. :cool:
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I have no Irish in me unless the name Oleary is Irish? If so my mother has some explaining to do.
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You have got to be kidding, as Irish as Paddy MacGinty.

Rob P.
 
Well unless of course theyve been dried out for a thousand years and are going to give me magical powers. Thats different. Actually thinking about It na Im still not eating a foreskin.
Now a choko baby Im all in on them.
 
Words, language and meaning all vary over time, context and region. Policing it is counter productive. By allowing proper free speech and letting a person choose their own mode of expression and it becomes much easier to make an informed judgement.

The recent banning of certain comedy pieces, and the tearing down of good people making an honest faux par is just evidence of how irrational this is all become. The social justice system isnt needed, the justice system is doing just fine without it.

I might not like what you say and do, but Ill fight to let you say and do it.

The best people I know are the most tolerant, and the funniest are, usually, the most controversial.

Anyway, if your favourite crusade is righting all the "wrongs" and trying to save people from "harmful" words, or to stop "offensive" acts or words I think maybe you might be better served helping the truly unfortunate with real problems.

The sort of problems that dont get social morality and virtue points but actually help someone in need of it. The world hands out enough hardship, we dont need go looking for other problems to fix.

Turning people on each other seems to cause more problems as best as I can tell, not less.
 
Hard to know where to go with this one.
Words hmm,sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt me.
These words were meant to make one resilient,but when you live in a society where you are constantly belittled because you have more melanin the others
is just plain wrong,some words do hurt and take there toll.sorry for digressing
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Old GT
This is what I find wrong with the loudest voices in our society today. There quick to make judgments on the past wrongs but seem unwilling or unconcerned with some of the things that are happening every day now at this very moment. Lets all jump up and down about names of products, places and everything else that we see as a slight on races but we will totally ignore the fact that people are being killed every day in parts of the world that most of these self absorbed dung beetles dont give a flying **** about. True I dont give a **** either,but I dont protest about all the injustices in the world. If I did ide be a total hypocrite .
To all that have nothing else to do get a hobby as most here do.
 
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I'm not a lollypop man, I'm a traffic technician.
I'm not a shopping trolley boy, I'm a multi-directional grocery vehicle conveyance operator....

gotta be PC about everything now.

Not a self lovin sort of guy, he's an owner operator....
Not short, vertically challenged.

Can't even ask for a skiiny latte anymore, that's fat shaming.

ISIS sympathisers scream, "the Christians committed horrible atrocites!" Oh, so that makes it OK to keep committing even more atrocities does it?

FFS, we are slow learners.

Just realised this is black text on a white background... surely I've upset someone already.
 

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