Irish Sports
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
We are in desperate straits if this emotional bullying is allowed to rampage on unchecked.
The latest farce is where Ted Walsh mentioned the word 'suicidal' in a post-race spiel and a guy from whose son committed suicide nearly 3 years ago phoned RTE to complain ( asked to put it in writing and did so).
He stated he felt 'utter revulsion ...
that 'every parent ,sibling and friend of a suicide victim would take offence' and that this represented a 'trivialisation' of suicide.
Frankly I would find this incredible if I had not already seen the inexorable advance of PC over the last twenty or thirty years. As I could have predicted -the more society yields -the more the PC lobby are emboldened and ratchet up their increasingly outrageous demands.
It is absurd to claim unilaterally that every one connected to a suicidee will be offended -how in hell could one know ?
So now we must all fashion even our rapid speech to take account of the most sensitive person that can be found anywhere -that's just lunacy.
How can this individual claim that Ted Walsh was somehow 'trivialising' suicide. I never met anyone who attempted to trivialise any normal death - let alone suicide. (By the standards applied by this protester that could be construed as an insult to Ted Walsh.)
RTE and TED were totally wrong to apologise -RTE probably running scared of its shadow since the recent shenanigans.
The latest farce is where Ted Walsh mentioned the word 'suicidal' in a post-race spiel and a guy from whose son committed suicide nearly 3 years ago phoned RTE to complain ( asked to put it in writing and did so).
He stated he felt 'utter revulsion ...
that 'every parent ,sibling and friend of a suicide victim would take offence' and that this represented a 'trivialisation' of suicide.
Frankly I would find this incredible if I had not already seen the inexorable advance of PC over the last twenty or thirty years. As I could have predicted -the more society yields -the more the PC lobby are emboldened and ratchet up their increasingly outrageous demands.
It is absurd to claim unilaterally that every one connected to a suicidee will be offended -how in hell could one know ?
So now we must all fashion even our rapid speech to take account of the most sensitive person that can be found anywhere -that's just lunacy.
How can this individual claim that Ted Walsh was somehow 'trivialising' suicide. I never met anyone who attempted to trivialise any normal death - let alone suicide. (By the standards applied by this protester that could be construed as an insult to Ted Walsh.)
RTE and TED were totally wrong to apologise -RTE probably running scared of its shadow since the recent shenanigans.
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 8
|
By:
Excellent post Vubiant, summed it up just perfect the absurdity of it all.
Teds remark and the use of the word suicidal was just a way of pressing home a point. When someone says they could eat a horse, we know they don't intend eating a horse, but we know what they mean!. |
|
By:
when ted said he rode its mother we know what he meant
everything is over analysed these days.. the world is full of critics and experts |
|
By:
Agree entirely,the new scourge people being insulted on behalf of others and generally well paid by the state to boot.
|
|
By:
Closest friend I ever had committed suicide in Feb... agree with OP, it's just a word used in a different context, people affected by these things need to realize it
|
|
By:
well i ask u this vubiant,did u ever have to call to some strangers door and tell the occupants,their son is dead!
|
|
By:
Since you ask -the answer is 'no'.
Now let me ask you a question ...what has this got to do with anything ? |
|
By:
Nothing probably the stupidest question ever asked on here.
|
|
By:
ok vubiant, i know by yre posts yre an intelligent geezer,but u have to understand ,these people are in terrible pain,a hell of not their own making,i think u need a bit of sensitivity on this 1
|