Whilst I don’t condone the behavior of the dim witted bimbo’s on that god awful programme on Channel 4 I have to ask if the media’s behavior towards it is symptomatic of the way this country is becoming. On Channel 4 you’ve got Big Brother and Castaway (or wahtever it’s called) and on the news you’ve got the PC who won’t shake her boss’ hand because it’s “against her religion”.
With all of this happening you have to ask whether our “tollerant PC culture” has itself to blame for the mess this has caused? When you bend over backwards to protect people from other cultures at the expense of the people of it’s own culture you have to start expecting things like this to happen. You start getting to a point where people will start speaking their minds because they’re so fed up of keeping their mouths shut. It doesn’t help when a police officer is allowed to refuse to shake the hand of her boss because it’s against the rules of her religion. Well in the UK it’s considered rude not to shake the hand of your supierior if it is required that you do so.
If people of this country are so surprised that there is a racisim problem in Big Brother, then they should perhaps take a look at the furore that the media kicks up by reporting every instance where being “PC” goes over the top. I’d rather not know about these things, because knowing about them seems to make me a bit “BNP” which is not a good thing. The press is making bigoted racists out of people in this country. When the press starts reporting that these things are being said on Big Brother, they should perhaps look to themselves for creating the situation. Big Brother may well be showing what I’m sure a lot of people across the country think on a daily basis.
The government preaches tollerance. However it would appear that it’s conditional tollerance. This is straying away from the point however. Should a TV show illustrate racism to the masses? or in doing so does it highlight an under lying problem with society? Has it caused a can of worms to exploded and in doing so it will be impossible to put them all back again?
Question time: Is lack of education the cause for intollerance and racism? or Is it the press and establishment’s over dosing of Political Correctness breeding a culture of hatred?
So in summary, should Big Brother and other trashy reality TV shows be binned so this kind of behavior doesn’t come to the surface? or should the PC culture go and everyone should develop a tougher skin?
