Sigh.
I'm sure I've said it before, but it bears repeating: political correctness just means not calling someone a nigger.
Got a problem with it now, Ryan? PC is not rudeness. It's simple politeness. It's about not using racist or sexist slurs. It's about not calling people by terms they don't use themselves. It's about a teeny tiny bit of sensitivity. As Bill Bryson pointed out nearly ten years ago, the most ridiculous excesses of PC that are cited by its opponents nearly all originate in a joke book of PC phrases which appeared in the early '90s and have never been seriously suggested by anyone. I just hate the idea that not tolerating bigotry, ignorance and plain old bad manners somehow takes the "chemistry" out of life. Ryan Tubridy, you're what we PC types like to call a fucking gobshite.