Rightwing lonie tune think tank Civitas publishes booklet that attacs PC culture. The author claims that PC culture has helped spread HIV ! amongst other cobblers
Link to the story in the Independent Jan 4th
(I also saw part of the debate on this on Channel 4 News last night, with the Grauniad's Polly Toynbee, She may 'fire back' in her next column there).
The Independent. Editorial fires-back today , though it's behind their pay to view.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article336405.ece
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Spread of HIV blamed on 'PC' culture
By Andy McSmith
Published: 04 January 2006
An author who claimed that free speech and public life in Britain were being destroyed by "political correctness" was accused yesterday of being in the grip of "political incorrectness gone mad".
A book published by the think-tank Civitas described political correctness as "soft totalitarianism" and suggested that it was to blame for the bomb attacks on London on 7 July, excessive house building in rural areas, the spread of HIV, and for the deaths of NHS patients who could have been saved by a more efficient health system.
The author, Anthony Browne, a journalist for The Times, claims to have been prevented from appearing on the radio to make the "factually correct" but "politically incorrect" statement that the increase in HIV is caused by immigration from Africa. "The result of that conspiracy of silence is the Government follows a policy that does absolutely nothing to combat the growth of HIV," he wrote.
He also claimed "political correctness" had "allowed the creation of alienated Muslim ghettoes which produce young men who commit mass murder against their fellow citizens"
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(I also saw part of the debate on this on Channel 4 News last night, with the Grauniad's Polly Toynbee, She may 'fire back' in her next column there).
The Independent. Editorial fires-back today , though it's behind their pay to view.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article336405.ece ---------------------------
Spread of HIV blamed on 'PC' culture
By Andy McSmith
Published: 04 January 2006
An author who claimed that free speech and public life in Britain were being destroyed by "political correctness" was accused yesterday of being in the grip of "political incorrectness gone mad".
A book published by the think-tank Civitas described political correctness as "soft totalitarianism" and suggested that it was to blame for the bomb attacks on London on 7 July, excessive house building in rural areas, the spread of HIV, and for the deaths of NHS patients who could have been saved by a more efficient health system.
The author, Anthony Browne, a journalist for The Times, claims to have been prevented from appearing on the radio to make the "factually correct" but "politically incorrect" statement that the increase in HIV is caused by immigration from Africa. "The result of that conspiracy of silence is the Government follows a policy that does absolutely nothing to combat the growth of HIV," he wrote.
He also claimed "political correctness" had "allowed the creation of alienated Muslim ghettoes which produce young men who commit mass murder against their fellow citizens"
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