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The borough council of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, has instructed employees to avoid referring to "brainstorming" for fear that the word "might offend mentally ill people and those with epilepsy". Based on news reports, no actual persons report being so offended, but that doesn’t stop government from avoiding productive work leading the vanguard of political correctness.
The new, putatively inoffensive jargon for a meeting to generate new ideas is "thought showers".
A British charity representing epileptics has evidence that "brainstorming" is not offensive.
[The National Society for Epilepsy] surveyed members three years ago to ask whether they found the phrase offensive.
Spokesman Amanda Cleaver said: 'The answer was a resounding No. It certainly wasn't deemed offensive at all. People thought it was a great word to describe the coming together and discussion of ideas.'
The charity uses the term in its working environment.
The idea arose during an “equality and diversity training session”. Why am I not surprised?
h/t: Overlawyered
[...] PROTECTING THE UNOFFENDED from possible offense: “UK local council has a brainstorm” …. [...]
OMG! This is as hilarious as the incident a few years ago in Washington, D.C. in which a financial services executive in the employ of the US government was terminated for saying: “We cannot be seen to be niggardly in this year’s budget allocations” in the presence of African American/Black/”of color”/whatever American staffers.
Or the case of internationally celebrated journalist Mark Steyn’s current troubles with Canadian human rights commissions for being an investigative journalist capable of research, a perspective, and the literacy skills to communicate it all in an engaging and insightful - even persuasive! - manner.
AND THERE’S THE RUB!
The politically correct thought police types cannot CONVERT to their cause due to their own incompetencies, so they seek to REPRESS others instead. Soon, of course, the very competencies that the politically correct do not have will be next on the REPRESS THIS! list.
Truly, if ever we needed proof that all humans are not created equal in that some of us are a LOT brighter than others, we have it here.
Please join me in declaring the genuinely stupid to be supremely boring and unworthy of any time-investment. Generally, that means ignoring almost every politician known to humankind. Imagine the benefits as they would be reflected in the daily media!
FINALLY! Humankind would learn BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT that the mainstream media had become irrelevant because - as we all should have recognized a long time ago - recycling used petrol is a scientific impossibility.