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Well, Wikipedia is a great source, but choosing political corectness over the truth is going too far.

For instance, Wikipedia insists on saying that the most notorius dictatorships (N. Korea, China, Belarus, etc.) are republics. I'd be better off using Unycyclopedia. Any other stories of going overboard with political correctness?

Well, Wikipedia is a great source, but choosing political corectness over the truth is going too far.

For instance, Wikipedia insists on saying that the most notorius dictatorships (N. Korea, China, Belarus, etc.) are republics. I'd be better off using Unycyclopedia. Any other stories of going overboard with political correctness?

Wikipedia must remain neutral, not only because it a source of information. But because of the nature of it's creation and updating. When you have a source of information instantly editable by anyone all with differing opinions, it will fall apart.

If anyone is getting too PC happy it's the UK

Well, Wikipedia is a great source, but choosing political corectness over the truth is going too far.

For instance, Wikipedia insists on saying that the most notorius dictatorships (N. Korea, China, Belarus, etc.) are republics. I'd be better off using Unycyclopedia. Any other stories of going overboard with political correctness?
Obviously!

That's why this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea) exists. Evidently the wikipedians are merely a bunch of politically correct tree hugging hippy communist pussies.

:rolleyes:

Must people blame this enigmatic "political correctness" on everything, now?

I wonder if I'll live to see the day that the term 'political correctness' is properly applied...

"Did that guy just cut me off in traffic? Gah! Political Correctness has gone too far!"

I stopped laughing when I realized the OP was serious.

To respond to your argument involving the corrupt dictatorships:

Those nations officially style themselves as republics. Wikipedia merely reports the fact that they style themselves as such. In their article on North Korea, they state that they are officially a republic, but then describe how false that really is. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_North_Korea)

Wikipedia sucks a source. It's subjective in giving obviously inferior arguments the same status as solid, widely accepted ones.

To respond to your argument involving the corrupt dictatorships:

Those nations officially style themselves as republics. Wikipedia merely reports the fact that they style themselves as such. In their article on North Korea, they state that they are officially a republic, but then describe how false that really is. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_North_Korea)

Exactly - I just read the article itself. North Korea officially styles itself a "Democratic People's Republic". That's a fact. Whether or not this description is accurate is a seperate issue and has been dealt with in depth on wikipedia. Sigh.

Staff at a coffee shop in Glasgow refused to serve a customer who had ordered a 'black coffee', believing it to be ‘racist.’ He wasn’t served until he changed his order to 'coffee without milk'. Around the world we have reports of the word ‘black’ becoming emotionally charged and politically correct or incorrect depending upon one’s point of view.

You know you have a problem when the word black ceases to mean a colour.

One day people will blame stubbing their toes on political correctness.

Well, Wikipedia is a great source, but choosing political corectness over the truth is going too far.

For instance, Wikipedia insists on saying that the most notorius dictatorships (N. Korea, China, Belarus, etc.) are republics. I'd be better off using Unycyclopedia. Any other stories of going overboard with political correctness?
You'll find that these references are probably to the official names of the countries, which are set by their governments. Nothing to do with PC.

Well, Wikipedia is a great source, but choosing political corectness over the truth is going too far.

For instance, Wikipedia insists on saying that the most notorius dictatorships (N. Korea, China, Belarus, etc.) are republics. I'd be better off using Unycyclopedia. Any other stories of going overboard with political correctness?

And folks wonder why unis and high schools frown on using it as a source of research? (background is ok, so long as you actually check their references, but yeah, there's bias.)

Hmm, on the topic of PR China it says this: The People's Republic of China (PRC), more commonly known as just China ... is country in East Asia, with a smaller proportion of its area located in Central Asia, encompassing most of the land occupied by the Chinese civilization.

Where the word 'country' I assume is used in place of a dictatorship. For crying out loud a country refers to a piece of land, and the Chinese civilisation reaches deep into Malaysia.

Obviously!

That's why this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea) exists. Evidently the wikipedians are merely a bunch of politically correct tree hugging hippy communist pussies.

:rolleyes:

Must people blame this enigmatic "political correctness" on everything, now?

To respond to your argument involving the corrupt dictatorships:

Those nations officially style themselves as republics. Wikipedia merely reports the fact that they style themselves as such. In their article on North Korea, they state that they are officially a republic, but then describe how false that really is. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_North_Korea)

^ what they said. Seriously. :rolleyes:


I wonder if I'll live to see the day that the term 'political correctness' is properly applied...

"Did that guy just cut me off in traffic? Gah! Political Correctness has gone too far!":p

Must people blame this enigmatic "political correctness" on everything, now?
I once read on BBCs Have Your Say where someone accused 'PC Liberals' of being politically correct and not banning flag burning in the UK, forgetting, of course, that banning non-racist expression becuse one finds it offensive is generally PC anyway...

I wonder if I'll live to see the day that the term 'political correctness' is properly applied...

"Did that guy just cut me off in traffic? Gah! Political Correctness has gone too far!"

So true. The worst misuse I've seen recently was when opposition to the Iraq war accused of being PC. I wonder if the term 'Political Correctness' will be adopted by school children as an insult in the near future.

I once read on BBCs Have Your Say where someone accused 'PC Liberals' of being politically correct and not banning flag burning in the UK, forgetting, of course, that banning non-racist expression becuse one finds it offensive is generally PC anyway...

Ugh! How do those people manage to breathe?


Sigh. Anyone else find that political correctness is one of those words that instantly incite a headache, no matter which context it's used in? Ever tried giving yourself a stroke? Now you can! (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/search.php?searchid=681812)

Ever tried giving yourself a stroke?

Habitually.

Habitually.

One of the things NSG is good for, hey? :p

So true. The worst misuse I've seen recently was when opposition to the Iraq war accused of being PC. I wonder if the term 'Political Correctness' will be adopted by school children as an insult in the near future.
*Shudders*

One of the things NSG is good for, hey? :p

That, or pr0n.

*hides*

You'll find that these references are probably to the official names of the countries, which are set by their governments. Nothing to do with PC.
Indeed.

Political correctness tends to become ridiculous in wiki.
For example there was extremely long discussion about calling Stalin "dictator"(I participated in it myselfly also at one moment). It took horribly long as i noticed that this discussion had been going for months, becoming silent at one moment and then again restarting with full strenght. In the end majority pressed it through(it became easier then one main stalinist got banned for vandalism in other articles) and Stalin was mentioned to be a "dictator" but whole thing(that lasted months) was ridiculous in reality.

Well, Wikipedia is a great source, but choosing political corectness over the truth is going too far.

For instance, Wikipedia insists on saying that the most notorius dictatorships (N. Korea, China, Belarus, etc.) are republics. I'd be better off using Unycyclopedia. Any other stories of going overboard with political correctness?"Overboard"? I read those articles. There's no overboard political correctness there.