"Blacklist" is blacklisted in Britain: Police ban word over claims it is racist
We read:
"Police chiefs have banned the word 'blacklist' over fears it is racist. They have also struck out its opposite - 'whitelist' - which is used by IT workers for a list of acceptable email contacts. Scotland Yard employees have been told to use 'red' and 'green' instead.
The move baffled officers, who said it would do little to help the force emerge from its latest racism crisis.
One officer said: 'Frankly we all sigh when things like this come around. Lots of good work is done to make sure policing reaches into all parts of society and helps the most vulnerable. This is not it.'
The measure is part of a drive by police chiefs to stamp out racism within the force. But officers within the organisation are said to have described the latest orders as 'bizarre'.
One source said that banning them won't solve any genuine problems the Met has with racism. They added: 'Do we really think these words are discriminatory? The truth is they're nothing to do with race whatsoever and are very common IT terms.'
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7 comments:
Political Correctness is just another codeword for SOCIALISM
So communism and envirowhackos are okay?
How can anyone take the British police seriously when they do things like this that are obviously silly?
Well if you read the piece, not all the police agreed with it!
I think this is a case of WHITE washing the PC issue.
Anon 5:02,
Heh. Good one!
Anon 3:30,
That's true. But what the leadership does reflects on (and constrains) the force as whole far more than what is done by a handful of simple beat cops.
We call them WATER MELLONS annon 1;56 becuase the GREEN on the OUTSIDE and RED on the INSIDE
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