Originally Posted by
drillerpie
I agree that political correctness can go too far but when you think of Fashanu (disowned by his brother and ending up killing himself) then Charlie Palmer (talking about as a youngster getting chased by people who wanted to beat him up for being black) you realise just how far we have come in a relatively short space of time. We're talking about the 1970s and 1980s here, in most of our lifetimes and certainly not prehistoric times.
I think there's a prevailing view on here that political correctness is not necessary as we are all basically pretty decent to each other and in the 70s we just liked to engage in a bit of Carry On style banter which was well received by everybody, but if you just think about it for a second it wasn't like that at all.