Let's have a common sense party please!

I must confess that I have not read all the comments. My stance is similar to Lemongrove and others who agree with her.

I feel we are so politically correct that it is like walking on eggshells so we don’t offend anyone.

I used to teach a lot of Asian women and made some lovely friends and was never accused of being racist, other than by one of my Line Managers.

Now this is where I might be deleted by HQ for the first time.
Some of you have asked for examples so here goes.

My Line Manager said ‘Do not offer your students black or white coffee say with or without milk’. What a load of co**lers.

I totally disagree with Margaret Court with her comments about the LGBT community, but her religion has a different view and although her comments are abhorrent to me, I think she should be able to voice them.

I wonder who makes the decision on what comments are deemed as racist. There are many phrases with the word black in them, such as ‘black mood’. Are words with white in them identified as racist such as ‘white as a sheet’ I suspect not.

I rest my case.

I think the tone and content of some of the replies to my post explains what I meant. Father Christmas, Big Ears in Noddy books, reading things into something quite innocent. No one unless they are warped seeks to cause offence, there isn't a hidden agenda to see the worst in people. I dont know how to refer to certain groups of people as I dont wish to cause offence, but the terminology changes so its best to just keep quiet.

Actually callistemon, it has been discovered that the market is not where the Corona virus originated. It is thought to have come from a scientific lab.

Throws out at least one of the borderline offensive arguments/perspectives.

As I said earlier in the thread, just treat people as people.

They may be kind, helpful, rude, overbearing or gentle. They are all just people.

If we all just took the perspective of being sympathetic and open to any variation of humanity, life would be much nicer. And then no one would need to 'walk on eggshells'.

Not that I've noticed any egg shell walking on GN. The bigots storm in like bulls in china shops.

My understanding of why describing someone as ‘coloured’ can give offence is because it assumes ‘white’ to be the default and suggests pollution of that ‘norm’. Also, it was used as a legal category in South Africa - one which denied people in the category legal rights - and still has those connotations, along with others from the US before civil rights changes.

GagaJo it's not just the bigots who storm in like bulls in a china shop, but many who consider themselves especially "woke" They can jump on people who are not remotely bigoted in their actions but who don't have "woke" acceptable vocabulary.

Has anybody direct experience of being jumped on by a woke person?

No Greymar, but I've had to correct people who seem to think it's perfectly fine to use outdated, offensive terms. If in doubt, just don't!

Sparkling, I'm all for common sense, but whose version is deemed acceptable? If unsure how to 'refer to groups of people', perhaps remain silent. People don't need to be categorised anyway.

Sounds painful Greymar ?

I don't understand why people have to be labelled by their colour or ethnicity in the first place in the media? Why not a just a person?

I nominated someone for the Common Sense Party and was told I had no manners and was rude and antagonistic. Not sure why; I thought it was a compliment.