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Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by Starkus on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:18AM (#23792370)
He's rather right about London and many parts of the EU, Europe has been losing its cultural identity for years.
Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by 54351623 on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:23AM (#23792425)
Cultural identity? Sounds pretty Orwellian to me, rather like group think.
Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by gameswithgo on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:23AM (#23792419)
Cultural identity is never lost, but cultural identity is always changing.
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Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by pjc50 on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:31AM (#23792528)
Street abuse is never OK regardless of who it's from, you don't have to pretend there's a racial conspiracy to stop you discussing it.
Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by the-dude on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:35AM (#23792570)
Thanks for the kind words.

I am not pretending there is a conspiracy at all. The PC is out in the open.

Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by shadowgovt on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:55AM (#23792820)
Can you give some concrete examples of someone being censured for criticizing people being called cancer-whore? It's not out of the realm of possibility, but that seems an extraordinary claim.
Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by the-dude on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:13PM (#23793005)
Do you actually have an opinion about people being called cancer whore out of the blue or are you just here trying to supress discussion about it?
Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by ceejayoz on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:44PM (#23793385)
Being called "cancer whore" is bad.

Claiming there's a big conspiracy of "political correctness which supresses discussion about this" is entirely unsupported thus far.

Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by zozbot234 on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:37PM (#23794090)
The Dutch have a way of using disease names as a source of profanity. Cancer, cholera, TBC, smallpox, all of these can be swear words. Corona will probably make the list soon enough. (Compare the Quebeckers with their chalice and tabarnak.)
Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by ceejayoz on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:33AM (#23792546)
How is "I got mistaken for a woman because of my hairstyle" a racist thing?
Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by the-dude on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:36AM (#23792594)
It is about cancer whore, not the mistaken identity.

This term is only used by immigrants towards native women.

Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by ceejayoz on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:50AM (#23792768)
Well, and Dutch-born white musicians, it'd seem.

https://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2019/11/talentloze-tuigra...

Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by hylaride on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:27AM (#23792471)
I don't think immigration/multiculturalism is the cause of that (though maybe it’s an accelerator). The world is homogenizing. Travel to any city in the developed world and all coffee shops, fashion, etc look the same.