tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post6611857180180553778..comments2024-02-26T00:59:26.907-08:00Comments on Ana the Imp: An Enemy of Political CorrectnessAnastasia F-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-36364379189303101922011-07-12T15:28:18.880-07:002011-07-12T15:28:18.880-07:00Nobby, lol!Nobby, lol!Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-13732453686265358152011-07-12T11:18:16.330-07:002011-07-12T11:18:16.330-07:00Ana, An extra 'e'?! You mean, Brownee'...Ana, An extra 'e'?! You mean, Brownee's?Nobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-56972747572467489202011-07-10T15:45:53.518-07:002011-07-10T15:45:53.518-07:00Nobby, he has an extra e. :-)
I was an awful t...Nobby, he has an extra e. :-) <br /><br />I was an awful time.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-86792017395270679242011-07-10T09:23:27.661-07:002011-07-10T09:23:27.661-07:00ps I was teaching in China at the time of the 7/7 ...ps I was teaching in China at the time of the 7/7 bombings. While horrified at what had happened to my fellow Londoners I was not surprised at the events which had come to pass on that fateful day.Nobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-25443975925957471602011-07-10T09:20:30.420-07:002011-07-10T09:20:30.420-07:00That surname - how ironic.
Anyway, I have just or...That surname - how ironic.<br /><br />Anyway, I have just ordered a copy of Browne's book Ana. Thanks.Nobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-63616392058604300302011-07-03T16:16:59.617-07:002011-07-03T16:16:59.617-07:00You are fortunate in one respect in the States. Y...You are fortunate in one respect in the States. You don't have to suffer the Archbishop of Canterbury, the high apostle of PC. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-30530480315460183462011-07-03T16:15:52.610-07:002011-07-03T16:15:52.610-07:00Bob, I fear so.Bob, I fear so.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-63084273037788446732011-07-03T16:15:12.593-07:002011-07-03T16:15:12.593-07:00Jean Paul, quite right. I've made the correct...Jean Paul, quite right. I've made the correction. Well, they held British passports and were citizens of the country, so in a technical sense they were 'British'. I am, however, sensitive to the deeper point that you are making.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-35494033177921814352011-07-03T16:10:45.268-07:002011-07-03T16:10:45.268-07:00Henry, thank you. :-)Henry, thank you. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-27838072058629142372011-07-03T16:10:10.605-07:002011-07-03T16:10:10.605-07:00Dominic, quite right.Dominic, quite right.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-39650569757990441272011-07-01T14:32:23.388-07:002011-07-01T14:32:23.388-07:00The apostles of political correctness are in the b...The apostles of political correctness are in the business of carrying gasoline to house fires. If you don't remove 'em from power in Europe, and if we don't do it in the States, Western Civilization (to mix a metaphor) will go the way of the 8-track tape.Bob Mackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452703873713992208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-18225454878162912612011-07-01T05:49:42.310-07:002011-07-01T05:49:42.310-07:00I remember the case of Jean Charles (not John Char...I remember the case of Jean Charles (not John Charles, BTW) because he's my name pal, however, it didn't get special attention here in France, and I never ever considered the case more than a tragic accident. There's really no room to believe the police knew he was not a suicide bomber. <br /><br />PS: don't you think it is politically incorrect to call "British" people who very probably don't define themselves as "British"?Jean Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11604470439372237292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-74138825290385876562011-06-30T11:19:34.482-07:002011-06-30T11:19:34.482-07:00I first came across this book a couple of years ag...I first came across this book a couple of years ago in a lonely section of the university library and considering its small size has had a disproportionate influence on my politics. One section I liked in particular was a bit towards the end about foreign aid and how it can make the people it is designed to help actually worse off.<br /><br />Suddenly it was clear. The most downtrodden people in Africa live in countries headed by the most oppressive governments, so handing over money to these governments in the name of assisting its citizens can prolong their suffering. It seemed so obvious when I read it, but I'd previously seen the issue through the prism of political correctness.<br /><br />Good postHenry Goodgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17517278413561170005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-89706782705948678292011-06-29T16:43:52.490-07:002011-06-29T16:43:52.490-07:00Falaise, don't forget that on the day before d...Falaise, don't forget that on the day before de Menezes was shot, there were four further failed bomb attempts (again three on the tube, one on a bus).<br /><br /> I've never known such a tense atmosphere in London (having lived there through many bombings and bomb attempts by the IRA and various offshoots thereof; and, well a period of about six months long of "slow riots" and repeated large scale arsons on the unlovely council estate on which I grew up...) as on the the 21st and 22nd July 2005. <br /><br />In some ways, apart, except, perhaps, I guess, for those directly involved with those who had been injured or killed in the 7/7 attacks, I think the general mood was even worse, even though no-one was even hurt, and the attempted bombers were patent incompetents, as then it really looked as though we might have been part-way through a sustained campaign of attacks - whereas, well, I think the notion of one set of bombs on the Underground, detonated by jihadis, by the summer of 2005, was more or less expected. Shocking and horrific, and tragic, of course (and I walked past Russell Square station that morning, seeing the blackened faces in the booking hall of those who had evidently escaped hell deep below ground) - but really not unexpected. A second attempt so soon afterwards was unexpected. Which goes some way to excuse or at least explain the overreaction (well, yes, and much incompetence and nervousness) by the police on the 22nd.<br /><br />I flew to Kiev on holiday a couple of days later. Not sure if (as a Londoner) this verged upon a minor act of treachery (obviously plans had been made months in advance), but in a way I have both never been so glad to be out of my home city; the atmosphere had turned very dark. And that reallyw as after the 2nd failed bombings. After the 1st there seemed to me to be much more of a spirit, yes, partially of resignation, but of defiance (everybody out on the streets for the minute of silence - I worked opposite the Spectator's offices then - but also making tasteless jokes about Ken Livingstone and Jacques Chirac); the 2nd attempt crushed that spirit for a time.<br /><br />I must read this book, in any case. I think it's not just a "retreat from reason" that characterises the whole PC "project" - and Blairism - but the complete rejection of any kind of moral objectivity; or of the notion that there are any posts at all that might be labelled "truth" or have any objective meaning as such.Dominichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00145734042272196687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-56627259592091672212011-06-29T15:44:13.857-07:002011-06-29T15:44:13.857-07:00Anthony, it's certainly time to clean the stab...Anthony, it's certainly time to clean the stables. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-42089433793866387532011-06-29T15:43:29.142-07:002011-06-29T15:43:29.142-07:00Falaise, you may have a point. I just remember th...Falaise, you may have a point. I just remember that it seemed to dominate to the exclusion of the main story.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-61053654569531736342011-06-29T15:39:49.990-07:002011-06-29T15:39:49.990-07:00Mark, the reaction is already there, here against ...Mark, the reaction is already there, here against multi-culturalism. But there were always those with the courage and the wit to expose the stupidity of PC. I love <i>South Park</i>, specifically Eric Cartman. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-60090697287579753202011-06-29T15:36:18.758-07:002011-06-29T15:36:18.758-07:00Spitfire, something nasty I trust. :-)Spitfire, something nasty I trust. :-)Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-76728568204010978432011-06-29T15:35:20.786-07:002011-06-29T15:35:20.786-07:00Michael, that's something else I've argued...Michael, that's something else I've argued, that holding a British passport does not make you British.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-22961513453096083742011-06-29T15:34:06.879-07:002011-06-29T15:34:06.879-07:00Richard, yes. As I've said before I hate PC w...Richard, yes. As I've said before I hate PC with a passion and will always do my best to undermine it whenever I can.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-10346465211214028672011-06-29T15:31:52.672-07:002011-06-29T15:31:52.672-07:00Melody, indeed so.Melody, indeed so.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-50042474881599815272011-06-29T15:31:11.316-07:002011-06-29T15:31:11.316-07:00Calvin, I make that my personal ambition.Calvin, I make that my personal ambition.Anastasia F-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284602529524462457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-77619057490396557942011-06-29T10:24:35.782-07:002011-06-29T10:24:35.782-07:00Sounds like it is time for a purge, who enabled th...Sounds like it is time for a purge, who enabled the spread of communism throughout the world?anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02931330128135957439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-77109317311855346182011-06-29T04:20:13.229-07:002011-06-29T04:20:13.229-07:00The lovely thing about PC is the way it enables an...The lovely thing about PC is the way it enables an almost Alice in Wonderland inversion of beliefs in which the ostensible proponents of tolerance are, in fact, completely intolerant of anyone other than their favoured groups.<br /><br />I would take one point of difference with you on 7/7 though. I don't recall the actual bombings disappearing as a story, although for a while they were eclipsed by the Menezes shooting incident and, particularly, the faslehoods perpetuated by the police. I suspect that had they come out as soon as it was clear that he wasn't a terrorist and said, "In a very difficult situation, we got it wrong", rather than maintaining an incorrect story for some time, it would have faded back behind the real story of the bombings.Falaisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01296217731383114462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4413130168723738166.post-73155003436690028422011-06-29T03:17:35.212-07:002011-06-29T03:17:35.212-07:00I console myself with the thought that the influen...I console myself with the thought that the influence of political correctness may not be as wide or as deep as it seems to those of us who have worked in universities or the public sector. Time will tell but I have a sense that reason will prevail.Mark Englishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506844097173520312noreply@blogger.com