PC Madness

Radio 1's  decision to edit "Fairytale of New York" to remove the word 'faggot' is amazingly stupid twice over.

Firstly, its absurd that a song that has been enjoyed by us all for 15 years could suddenly start offending people, and secondly it gives the Daily Mail another reason to rant at the "PC Brigade", who really don't care about this at all. The Gay Rights lobby, as far as I can tell, have never objected to the song, and are not doing so now.

So the BBC have just given the Mail another reason to rant about the world, and this just makes it more difficult for us to have a reasonable debate when things pop up that potentially are offensive and need to be dealt with.

Or it could be a PR stunt, and here I am helping it. Figures.

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