Political Correctness Can Be a Good Thing By David Sloan

The idea of using political correctness to improve society is a very good one. Everyone has the right to be treated equally, regardless of their sex, colour or religion. Unfortunately, as with most good ideas, it has been corrupted and distorted by small-minded people who use it to their own ends. Every day now someone seems to be knocking political correctness. We constantly read stories about how more ethnic minorities should be promoted in the police force or that we should not be smacking our children, or Cherie Blair's latest bleat, we should be promoting more black judges.

Personally I couldn't give a damn if every judge and police officer in the country were black, as long as they were promoted on merit and merit alone.

The problem is we all have our human rights, and in upholding one person's rights you may be denying someone else theirs. The answer is there has to be a starting point if we want political correctness to change society for the better, and this should start with the rights of our children. Every child should have the right to be raised in a stable, loving, financially secure environment. This should be enshrined in the law of the land and override all other human rights, even the rights of the parents.

The parents can be straight, gay or bisexual for all I care, just as long as they meet the politically correct guidelines. If all children were reared this way we wouldn't have a lot of today's problems with feral children, drug gangs and violent crime. We would soon have a generation of stable, intelligent, law abiding young people, who would be an asset to the country. If a child was found to have been mistreated or abused, then they would be taken off their parents and placed in a loving home.

Indeed if this were not to happen then the child could theoretically sue the state for not upholding its human rights, to be raised in a stable, loving, financially secure environment. Some people may say such people should not be allowed to have any further children. I personally would have no problem agreeing with this, as the rights and safety of our children must always come first. Political correctness used in this positive radical way, and not in the negative manipulative way some small-minded politicians want it used, can only make for a better society. New Labour always intended, through social engineering and political correctness, to bring about these changes.

By enshrining in the law of the land the rights of our children, we can make a safe, prosperous, law-abiding society for all of us.

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