Once in a while you’ll hear or see something that’ll make you look at the calendar to make sure it’s not April 1.st.
Take the EU, in many ways, itself something of an April Fool’s Joke, it’s nothing less then a venture into an absurd EU version of Orwellian New Speak.
EU officials, like those in George Orwell’s novel 1984, where he among other things foresaw the onset of political correctness, are currently considering publishing a handbook that would recommend that certain words and phrases be replaced by others, more politically correct ones.
Take the phrase: Islamic terrorist!
To avoid labelling an entire ethnic or religious group as terrorists they suggest that the phrase be replaced with: terrorists, who by their deeds and/or aims seek to bring Islam into disrepute!
Orwell was a pretty smart cookie!
Take the EU, in many ways, itself something of an April Fool’s Joke, it’s nothing less then a venture into an absurd EU version of Orwellian New Speak.
EU officials, like those in George Orwell’s novel 1984, where he among other things foresaw the onset of political correctness, are currently considering publishing a handbook that would recommend that certain words and phrases be replaced by others, more politically correct ones.
Take the phrase: Islamic terrorist!
To avoid labelling an entire ethnic or religious group as terrorists they suggest that the phrase be replaced with: terrorists, who by their deeds and/or aims seek to bring Islam into disrepute!
Orwell was a pretty smart cookie!
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