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This afternoon Patrick Mercer, a Tory MP, was sacked for making allegedly racist comments (click here to read the BBC report). The poor guy was only trying to tell things the way they are in laddish environments. But the moment people say anything that might be remotely non-PC they are attacked for being racist and discarded from society. Absurd.

The things he describes aren't as bad as many incidents I've witnessed. For example, I know of a guy who sent a news story about Indian men having small penises to his whole company, which includes a couple of Indian dudes. Should those guys have decided to abuse the legal resources of this country, they could have wasted a lot of time by filing a discrimination suite. But instead, they replied with an article, explaining why fat people are stupid. That gave everyone a good laugh, instead of giving reporters more racially divisive material to play around with.

On the other end of the scale, when a car crash nearly kills a pregnant woman (Rare Bugatti crashes into trees), the news report focuses more on the value of the car than the lives of those who'd narrowly avoided death.

Labels: Bugatti, correctness, political