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ArishMell · 70-79, M
It certainly looks under threat, and not from any Governmental agency, not in democratic (small 'd' !) lands at least.
Instead from people using the culture against itself, such as on-line, or by those self-appointed school governor bodies with too much local-political influence in some parts of America.
To a fortunately-lesser extent in the UK too, where we have not only seen one or two British authors put on that childish American school-censorship list, and J.K. Rowling condemned for pointing out the obvious difference between being genuinely of one sex and of having had a "sex-change" (I think she did call these physical states by the "approved" - by whom for whom, quite? - whatever they may have been at the time.)
For only today we learn Diane Abbot (Labour MP) has been censured by her own party for having made the obvious difference between racial and non-racial prejudice.
Diane is coloured.... and has previously been in bother herself from the Orwellites for her own use of the word "coloured" instead of, "of colour", the allegedly "correct" but grammatically clumsy phrase with exactly the same meaning!
Instead from people using the culture against itself, such as on-line, or by those self-appointed school governor bodies with too much local-political influence in some parts of America.
To a fortunately-lesser extent in the UK too, where we have not only seen one or two British authors put on that childish American school-censorship list, and J.K. Rowling condemned for pointing out the obvious difference between being genuinely of one sex and of having had a "sex-change" (I think she did call these physical states by the "approved" - by whom for whom, quite? - whatever they may have been at the time.)
For only today we learn Diane Abbot (Labour MP) has been censured by her own party for having made the obvious difference between racial and non-racial prejudice.
Diane is coloured.... and has previously been in bother herself from the Orwellites for her own use of the word "coloured" instead of, "of colour", the allegedly "correct" but grammatically clumsy phrase with exactly the same meaning!
therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
