Lexi: Eddie McGuire is not of Aboriginal ancestry.

Sorry you are right. I was just asking. I remember now it was another Game show host, Tony Barber. Well they do all look the same. ;-)

Perhaps you're getting things confused with McGuire's "King Kong" remarks, for which he's apologised to Adam Goodes, claiming it was just a "slip of the tongue."

You are looking for the bad in people all the time again.

I've been there & done that. Haven't we all at some time or other. You know what you were saying in your head but when it reached your mouth it was entirely different. My wife does it all the time & we all pay out on her. The stories I could tell you would make me the best comedian in Australia. Believe me. But then again I can't talk too loud either. There is not one of us can. Edie is just like my wife. She just can't help it, much to our family & neighbourhood delight. ;-)

Looks as though the guilt industry is running out of funding so the focus is gradually turning towards a victim industry. I wonder if there's now funding for feigning indignation acting lessons.
It'd be interesting to know at what stage of planning the successor of that is by now. Perhaps the white Aborigines will seek compensation for loss of complexion because if they're too light they can't bleat racism anymore.

Lexi,

You asked for an example and an easy one would be Gary Paulsen's Hatchet series, all copies of which were removed from a State primary school for 'violence', I found. Yet it been on recommended student reading lists elsewhere in the world. There are examples of classic adventure stories for boys that have been removed because they might be 'violent' or somehow offend someone sensitive.

The sinister, far reaching and intended effect of political correctness is to cause people to self censor, lest offence be taken. For State schools principals, many of whom were educated in the heyday of radical feminism in Australia, there needs to be little encouragement to censor and for obvious reasons.

One can only imagine what the flow-on PC effects of the recent 'ape' comment might be. Particularly considering that a head honcho of the Human Rights Commission while reflecting on the Eddie McGuire fluff has observed that racism can occur in a comedy context. Time was when comedy surfaced and defused social issues, an example being the bigoted Major in Fawlty Towers. Now comedy is the target of political correctness.

Does anyone herein think this particular topic has gone it's full course ? Call me insensitive, or whatever, I would have thought that Mr Goode's sensitivities have perhaps been sufficiently soothed and mollified !

o sung wu,

True. Maybe the footballer might like to play football too.

However there is a lot of sensitivity about these days. Problem is that the government might change and the many thousands who make their living out of the victim industry might have to go and get real jobs one day.

The gravy train has gathered a lot of passengers since the days of the Whitlam government and they are worried.

Hi there ONTHEBEACH...
You've never spoken a truer word ol' son. What gets me, our country has many large, critical issues that we must embrace. Our burgeoning debt; illegal boat people, the health system, the education system, our 'run down' Defence Resources ! I've no idea whether the coalition are up to the job, come September ? Notwithstanding all the muck Mr Abbott has thrown at him, I think he'll probably make a pretty good fist of it, nevertheless ? I guess we'll just have to wait and see ?