Anne Marie Morris MP (Conservative) - Stay or Go?

Bl4ckGryph0n

No, not in mine either. I just think she was being stupid, not deliberately offensive.

IronGiant

I don't think this is down to political correctness, there are phrases and there are phrases...The context and the use of this phrase have no place in society in my opinion at all.

Enki

I'm going to be pedantic here and emphasise it wasn't a single word but a phrase that encapsulates the entire Slave Trade.  
fits into my category of a generation further back (and in his dotage?).
She's a politician, she should have been aware that after that incident it was not appropriate to use it, so maybe an apology isn't enough this time around.

SteakAndCake

If this was councillor level, I'd take the point, however, this was no freudian slip in my mind, coming hours after G20 finished, where May made modern slavery speech at the G20.  Anne Marie Morris was the perfect bullet, her listeners at the time were loading holding and pulling the trigger.

rancidpunk

Where are our values?

Let's put this into context.

Nobody was attacked, abused, belittled or in any way discriminated against. No crime, no victims.

If it's the word that is bad, then where is the condemnation of the countless films, books and songs that continue to be made using it?

This is just another example of people choosing to be offended despite not being there and there being no actual discrimination.

A completely inappropriate phrase that didn't discriminate against or attack anyone should lead to an apology. Not loss of career and livelihood.

Jezza99

yep, that's the Daily Mail readers view lmao

                                                                                                                                       

IronGiant

There often is condemnation. Usually huge protests against Tarantino who, arguably, overuses the term in too many of his films. Not to mention those who condemn it's use as a term of endearment by black rap artists, as just one example. This is hardly the first time it's use has been, quite rightly, criticised.

It's nothing at all to do with being offended. If a broadcaster or journalist used the term, they'd be sacked. If many of us used the term at work, we could be sacked. As an MP she should be setting an example way above others, and should not be immune from the same, appropriate, punishment.

Ruperts slippers

Well, there are about 10x more of them than Guardian readers, to be fair.

rustybin

What a depressing thought...  
Oh, you said Guardian, maybe not...

SteakAndCake

I understand, maybe he could of phrased it a little better or thought of something else, being pounced on immediately, "Have you heard what she said, what do you think about what she said", on and on, who'd be a politician in the public eye, constantly monitored, judged and harassed, a oops moment..