Has political correctness gone mad - by Trevor Phillips

Toko Black

Don't you mean they'll all have to forgive you

IronGiant

Let's see what happens first shall we?  

Faust

Latest idiocy is the David Moyes alleged incident.  Nothing more than good humoured banter blown out of all proportion by some wannabe activists.  Apparently Moyes should be sent on an anger management course

What makes this all the more shocking is that the FA has launched an inquiry and Moyes has been forced to make a public apology.

krish

On that we agree @Faust.

I do wonder how this sort of thing gets into the public. The interview had ended and would have been recorded for MOTD rather than being live.

So who released it and began the ball rolling for the professional offence takers?

nabby

Idiots deliberately not taking a joke but offence. I think there were domestic violence 'experts' analysing it on radio 5 live the other day.

Similarly the incoming 2010 coalition govt deliberately took offence at the (traditional) note left by ex-Treasury sec Liam Byrne to his successor David Laws about there being no money left. Obvious gallows humour. They dined off it for ages.

Faust

Moyes and other similar passive aggressive bullies deserve to made examples of. He alluded to it on three occasions in the one response, with long pauses or gaps between. He knew exactly what he was saying and made it clear. Had he said it just the once, no one would have batted an eyelid. But three times? Come off it, he made the underlying message clear to the journalist.

nabby

Totally and utterly ridiculous.  This is exactly the sort of response that needs stamping out and hard. This was nothing other than friendly banter and for anyone to say otherwise is simply looking to be offended or offended on a third parties behalf.

The journalist in question made no complaint about it nor would she as they are, by all accounts quite friendly towards each other.

A great many people today are far to sensitive for their own good.  A classic example would be having a 'safe space' as they have now in some universities.  If you can't hold your own in a university especially in a debate then it's about time you retired from life completely.

What on earth today's generation would have made of life when I was growing up in the fifties and sixties goodness only knows.  The initiation ceremonies for new starters at work.  Having your privates shaved and then blacked etc.  I don't know one person that ever complained either, it was expected.  If that happened today we would probably end up with a SWAT team surrounding the factory.

People really need to grow a pair.

Faust

As is your response

When you can speak as someone with experience of (or having a loved one with experience of) working in pro football, then make a proper argument, rather than some nonsense about the good old days. Life moves on, people move on, things change, get used to it or moan about it, your choice. You're sounding as bad as the Brexiters you seem to shout down at every opportunity.

If you want to hark back to the good old days of the 1950s and 1960s then move to Australia.

nabby

What's pro-football got to do with this?  It could have been any situation. Again, Australia what the hells that all about.  Life moving on doesn't mean we have to put up with hysterical professional complainers who need to get a life rather than interfering in everyone else's.

I can't really comprehend what it is your trying to say.

Ruperts slippers

It wasn't any situation.
You seem to be hysterically complaining about professional complainers (who are they exactly?), no one else.