WOKE MADNESS

It just keeps getting worse this list of  'banned' words or expressions from the machinations of small minded, petty-fogging 'officials' with nothing better to do than invent racist connotations for almost every walk of life.

Here are a few samples:

Blackout

Blacksheep

Black market and

Blackmail,

Part of a list made up by a certain Nav Bhogal of the Pharmacists Defence Association's (no me neither) Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network  ( Honest, I'm not making this up!)

Mr Bhogal claims such words have 'negative connotations' and can be 'harmful' although he doesn't specify who to!

Other idiots with nothing better to do with their time heap further 'woke' ideology upon us, how about these:

'Ladies and Gentlemen', a term now banned by the British Red Cross, and the hospital below.

'Breast milk', now chest milk, 'birthing parents', rather than mothers and 'assigned at birth' instead of being born a boy or a girl.

These, as well as titles now frowned upon such as 'fireman' or 'policeman' are just a small sample of an 8 page guide issued by the James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth warning staff as to how they must deal with everyday expressions - and you thought the NHS was on its knees, struggling to survive but no!

It has the time, staff and resources to spend on such wokery, at the expense of nurses and hospital beds, and here was me thinking that's what they were supposed to do.

And it's not just such public bodies who have nothing better to do, the financial outfit of J P Morgan Chase instructs its staff to use the descriptions 'labour hours' instead of  man hours and 'workforce' rather than manpower.

It also wants terms such as good school and good neighbourhood replaced with 'well resourced' and of course it just has to have a go at blacklist recommending this be replaced with 'disallowed list', which I'm sure would be understood by everyone!

This invention of artificial racisms, of  finding fault where none is intended is a deplorable facet of modern life. I suspect Nav Bhogal would find a sexist, racist element which he would deem to be  'exclusive' and 'harmful'  in my addressing him as Mr - well tough shit MISTER Bhogal!