What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel cover image

What The F*** Is Going On? with James O'Brien

What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel

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The Politics of Political Correctness

It was someone ringing in to explain why political correctness is actually a very bad thing. And it wasn't aggressive... I can actually remember the details, which is increasingly rare as the years passed. It was one of those stories about ... They weren't going to have boys and girls sections that John Lewis anymore. The stuff that you're selling is exactly the same. So there's no actual meaningful change to your life. It's just you feel like something has been taken away. But if you frame the headline right, you can claim that it's an assault upon our children. In order to make you feellike something has been take away, they have come up with all the political correctness.

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