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Subject: [OM] Re: Olympus billboard
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:11:54 +0000
Exactamundo, Ian.

But I do hate the ghastly word "delusional".  "Deluded" worked fine  
for a long time ...

Chris

On 30 Dec 2007, at 00:01, Ian Nichols wrote:

> The trouble with that definition, IMO, is that it's quite wrong.
> Political Correctness, usually with the adjunct "gone mad",  is a
> label used by right-wing thinkers and commentators to ridicule and,
> usually, blow up out of all proportion anything said, written or done
> by those they perceive to be a delusional, illogical, liberal
> minority.  It is this lampooning in which the unscrupulous mainstream
> media is deliriously complicit, not the "political correctness"
> itself. For example, the great "Birmingham City Council renames
> Christmas so as not to offend religious minorities" hoax of a few
> years ago
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterval>
>
> Note that said council set up Christmas decorations etc which would
> have been organised and budgeted long before the story broke.



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