Talk:Legendary Egg Hunt/@comment-27950438-20160406182642/@comment-11580597-20160408060350

Well spoken LadyC! :-D

I'm so freaking tired of all that political correctness. It hasn't done anything good - and in my opinion it is nothing but offensive and insulting as you say the same, just with other words - or alternatively, you are not allowed to speak at all.

A few exampels from my country:

We have some candy made of a bisquit with a eggwhite/sugar-filling covered in chocolate. Very delicious and a must eat at any birthday party. Now we call them "Cream buns" (flødeboller) but for 100 years the name was Negro buns or Negro Kisses. But it was offensive, according to the saved people, so the name was changed.

We also had some liqorice called Zulu. They were shaped like a human head but they are out of production now, because some people thought it was racism to eat a black human head, even though liqorice is black as everybody knows.

And we have cookies called "Jew cookies". Some people also claimed them offensive and racist and wanted them banned, but without success - maybe because it's a traditional christmas treat and too many protested...

In many danish kindergartens pork meat is prohibited "in respect" of muslim culture. Not because of muslims in Denmark wanted it as the really don't care and they just eat something else, but because some saved Danes think it is offensive to the muslims. And we are a nation bred by porkmeat! So far out!

And in Sweden the very much loved author Astrid Lindgren has now been cencored, because everyday words was different 50 years ago, when she wrote most of her books. So today Pippi Longstockings father is no longer a Negro King - that title is too much for the puritans of today = No difference from the Middle Ages burning of books!

And I could continue for hours with similar examples, where political correctness has gone too far.

But it is not all grey. Fortunately many people find political correctness wrong and insulting and one of Denmarks most valued comedians has more or less been adopted by the Sclerosis Association because of his very direct way of joking with handicaps. When he tells handicap jokes, everybody is laughing and the ones who laugh the most is the handicapped! And exactly by the reason LadyC mention: "'' It's better to laugh than moan about what you can't change. Seeing the humor in it is actually therapeutic for many." ''

But maybe political correctness isn't the only issue anyway... Maybe the biggest issue is a worldwide lack of humouristic sense. I feel that very often - also here on DV-wikia...

And now I will return to my DV isles and go amok in OCD re-decoration - even though I haven't been diagnosed  ;-)