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Showing posts with label Political correctness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Political correctness. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Rt Hon Sir John Redwood: Politically Correct Speaking

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Wokeish is not my mother tongue, but I feel I can usually speak and write it fluently because it is all the opposition parties in the Common...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Barend Vlaardingerbroek: Half a century on from ‘The Lotus Eaters’

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Lotus-eater : someone who has a very comfortable, lazy life and does not worry about anything - Cambridge Online Xmas is approaching, and th...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Karl du Fresne: The new ruling class

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Politics in the 21 st century is often characterised as a contest between the elites and the populists. The elites – often refe...
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Sunday, July 28, 2019

Chris Talgo: Nike caves in to political correctness

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Nike (the quintessential American sportswear company) recently made this coy announcement: “Nike has chosen not to release the Air Max 1 ...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Barend Vlaardingerbroek: ‘Affirmative action’ – an obstacle for some ‘minorities’

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Donald Trump is in trouble again with the PC crowd for fingering affirmative action (AA) as his next target. The more I see of this guy,...
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Thursday, March 8, 2018

Alexandra Burnett: Teacher Education Must Rise Above Political Correctness

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Increasingly, Canadian universities seem to be more concerned about political correctness than educating students.  A  prominent illust...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

NZCPR Weekly: Political Correctness Threatens Free Speech

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Dear NZCPR Reader,    This week we examine the impact of political correctness on the freedom of speech, our NZCPR Guest Commenta...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

NZCPR Weekly: Golliwogs and Local Government

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Dear NZCPR Reader,    This week we examine the diverse impact of political correctness – from golliwogs to local government, our NZCPR G...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Brian Giesbrecht from Canada: University Succumbs to Politically Correct Nonsense

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Why is the university pretending indigenous knowledge and science are the equivalent of our written knowledge base? I recently listene...
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Sunday, January 22, 2017

NZCPR: Politically Correct Madness

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Dear NZCPR Reader,    We start off election year by examining the scourge of political correctness, our NZCPR Guest Commentator,...
Sunday, October 9, 2016

Stephen Franks: The Rugby Union’s clerical duties

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Have I lost touch with my country? Where am I? When did it become an obligation on an employer to discipline an employee for what coul...
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Saturday, March 26, 2016

Karl du Fresne: How identity politics has changed language

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What a minefield language has become since it got mixed up with identity politics. In her acceptance speech at the Emmy Awards las...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Kevin Donnelly: History curriculum sacrifices Western values at the altar of political correctness

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Most of the debate about Julia Gillard's national crusade in education centres on school funding and how the government intends to r...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

Kevin Donnelly: A guide to education jargon!

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With schools about to start in a couple of weeks it’s a good time for parents to brush up on education fads and gobbledegook. Every ...
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Karl du Fresne: Another PC casualty

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BRIAN TRUE-MAY, the co-creator and producer of the popular TV series  Midsomer Murders , has effectively been forced to step aside after a m...
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