Potlitical Correctness is STALINISM and should be REPEALED by patriots and democrats

Since looking at tabloids can rot your brain, I thought I'd enlighten myself with some refined and incisive commentary, so I headed over to the Telegraph for something that doesn't just pretend to be posh. Maybe I'd find some intelligent, decent arguments about Political Correctness to challenge myself with.

Big mistake. I came across 'We must outlaw Political Correctness as ruthlessly as it has trampled on our liberties' by Graham Warner instead. Apparently:

The relentless onward march of Political Correctness is fast turning us into a Stalinist society.

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At least the Mail recycles

And it's not just Richard 'Smellyface' Littlejohn, whose column this week, 'Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Darling' in which he hilariously parodies a conversation with Alastair Darling by setting it in Dad's Army bears a striking resemblance to a 2007 column in which he imagined a conversation in the style of Dad's Army called, er, 'Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Darling'. Well done, Smellyface. You earned your next trip to IHoP with that one.

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More kind milky goodness with Mail commenters

Hello you.

More fun in the Mail's comments today, as lovely commenters support the use of the Sharia system in Saudi Arabia to behead and crucify a paedophile.

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Are we the baddies?

A nice video for you. Words below the jump.

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Daily Mail comments and the milk of human kindness

Last month, Jamie Sport from The Quail published a great post over at MailWatch about how some companies were uneasy about the Mail introducing unmoderated comments to the website.  Apparently, according to the Head of Online Marketing at O2:

There’s always the risk with user content that our brand advertising may appear next to a comment we may not agree with or like.

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From the 'political correctness is anything we don't like' files...

Watford Council has banned parents from playgrounds in case they're paedophiles! Wuurgh! Perlidigol-Creckniss-Gawn-Mayyd, yoo-coodern-mayyk-id-upp!*

See, 'Parents banned from watching their children in playgrounds... in case they are paedophiles' (check the comments), 'Council bans parents from play areas'. To be fair, Smellyface's inevitable coverage doesn't make any PC claims for once, but more on that in a bit.

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Red herrings and multicultural plots

One newspaper technique for fooling people is the red herring.  Here's how it works.  Someone offers a list of things that have happened or reasons for something happening and the papers choose the most outrageous or ridiculous and focus on it as if it's the only one.

Luckily for me, who wanted to write more about this, there has been a great example of a more subtle than usual red herring causing a massive brouhaha in the press in the last week or so.

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