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Toronto -
If David Mamet's “Race” were a musical, its big closing number would probably be “Everyone's a Little Bit Racist” from “Avenue Q”. It's a shame Mamet's play never quite reaches that tune's level of insight into humanity's tribal tendencies.
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Edgy, un-PC humour isn't in vogue this year. Neither is irony, it seems. One wonders if that could become a problem for 'The Book of Mormon' (the Broadway musical, not the religious book) as touring productions reach audiences outside New York.
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A Massachusetts principal decided to cancel Honors Night at his school, to avoid offending students who did not earn grades high enough to participate in the event.
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Toronto -
Late last month, the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto unveiled this year's Christmas tree and it's quite unique to say the least. Veering away from traditional Christmas trees we see, this just might be one of the ugliest I've ever seen.
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Was it a joke when Piers Morgan said it would be doing the British public a favour if Jeremy Clarkson was taken out by machine gun? It produced less fuss than Clarkson's obviously flippant remarks this week.
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Our wonderful boys in blue who put their lives on the line every time they don their uniforms are now members of an oppressed minority. Six officers of the Metropolitan Police are suing their force for racial discrimination. Why should anyone care?
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BBC Radio 4 is sometimes thought of as a somewhat boring station, and it would be if it didn’t produce such interesting listening, like this two part documentary on politically incorrect songs.
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A bingo caller from Sudbury, Suffolk, UK has been told to stop using traditional phrases at his weekly sessions over fears that the local council could be sued.
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Let's get two things straight here: first, the expression to call a spade a spade is thousands of years old and etymologically has nothing whatsoever to do with any racial sentiment.
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Journalism has historically had as its philosophical intention to educate, inform and hold power to account. This was the authoritative definition of a free press as defined by Thomas Jefferson. But has political correctness damaged that?
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