“I do. There was a certain moslem female writer you didn’t like once…
Hey, nobody is perfect.”

Was it me? Was it me? Oh gosh darn, I hope it was me!

don’t fret pet, i was just pointing it out.

Compare the Booker candidate Mohsin Hamid and his 9/11 novel:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/09/booker_club_the_reluctant_fund.html

Whatever the truth, it struck me as brave that a writer should look into the events of the day in the unblinking way that Mohsin Hamid has done. Especially since he has his narrator say that he saw the tragedy – if only briefly – as cause for celebration. It takes guts to have a literary character we’re expected to feel sympathy with to tell such unpalatable truths, even now.

Those emotional responses exist amongst pretty much everyone of normal human psychology. If in some particular circumstance you don’t feel them, then either you are an outlier, or more likely it’s just that the circumstances didn’t match the trigger point you would need to feel like a member of a tribe under attack and wanting to hit back.

A Chelsea fan will not feel outrage when Liverpool are unfairly denied a penalty, will not want to punch the ref.

Judge people by _what_ they do when their buttons are pressed, not on _whether_ their buttons have been.

http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1220

I would say that the above is ageist. Sunny Hundal, you are an ageist. I guess that you are the type of PC person who:

‘hide[s] malign intentions behind sweet words.’

Tut tut.

But for me it’s not that it is politically incorrect to demean half the population, it is that is is bloody rude and also stupid.

An emotional response to put people into deportation camps en-masse, yes.

Or is that “out of context”? What’s the correct context? You sound like one of those people defending the imams in Channel 4′s Undercover Mosque. Heh.

Sunny, you have made quite a few comments that could be taken as non-PC and sexist by some people’s standards on this forum-

I’ve never claimed to be a PC fanatic. But I don’t remember making sexist comments.

No Sid, I’m not, but I don’t make the rules.
When the PC show trials come people like me might get lined up and shot by the alternative lifestyle fascists.
(My company’s gender and transgender awareness week is loooming and I’m beginning to sweat.)

I refer you to my earlier comment about the Eastern Bloc.

Ladies – please pay attention

what rubbish. i agree with the CIF commenter who pointed out that in itself is such a generalization.

anyway Sunny, you have made quite a few comments that could be taken as non-PC and sexist by some people’s standards on this forum- its lucky most of us women aren’t quite as uptight about our sex as some people are about their religion and their skin colour, and can take it like “men”.