Let's have a common sense party please!

I'd be grateful for some concrete examples of these codes of behaviour people don't like.

Do you have any other examples MOnica? I seriously don't know what these people, who claim they can't say what they want, mean.

We are going back in time and acting like the Victorians that so many people like to despise as backward looking and hypocritical. The moral code they lived by was different but like them, we are taught codes of behaviour that any deviation from brings down universal moral condemnation, from which you can never ever restore your place in society.

Like them, we scour peoples lives past and present for signs that they might, at some time in the past in childhood or extreme youth, done or said something that was in conflict with their present opinions and condemn them to a life of humiliation and accusations of hypocracy.

There is no place in our society for the repentant sinner, nor was there in the late19th century.

vegansrock How about the comment I made that China seemed to be the source of most respiratory/flu type diseases that threaten pandemics, which is a fact and no comment upon the Chinese, their lives or culture. For that I was labelled racist

I see where Sparkling is coming from.

It’s not a case of actually wanting to say something you feel you can’t, it’s about always having to be careful how you say it.
As a nation we are becoming extremely sensitive, I certainly am not advocating anyone being blunt to the point of rudeness, but I also think some people are just waiting to trip you up.

I don't get it either. If you don't want to say something horrible, unkind, racist or sexist, what is it you can't say?

What's common sense anyway?

I can't understand what it is that the OP feels she wants to say but can't, for fear of being "caught out".

It's a familiar complaint, especially since Mr T ruled the world. Some of his supporters now say things that in truth, would be much better not said or even thought. I saw a photograph of a group of women T supporters, they wore stetsons and T shirts with a stiletto shoe image and the slogan "racist bitch and proud". Lovely. I'm sure the OP isn't thinking that kind of thing but it would be interesting to try and have a 'common sense' debate about what it is she can't say any more.

Unfortunately common sense is not very common. Further, your common sense may not be mine.

I still can’t think what you want to say or think that you feel you might get “caught out” saying or thinking.

Nothing horrible or unkind, nothing racist or sexist, nothing homophobic or blasphemous, I think it’s just a general feeling that someone is waiting to catch you out if you say the wrong thing.

What do you want to say that you feel you can’t?

I agree, sometimes I despair at what’s happening in our society.

Big brother isn’t only watching us, he’s dictating everything we say and do.