Can it get any sillier? 23/7/2012
In a politically correct world, it doesn’t seem to matter how stupid some people in authority are prepared to make themselves look.
Police chiefs have banned the word ‘blacklist’ over fears it is racist.
They have also struck out its opposite – ‘whitelist’ – which is used by IT workers for a list of acceptable email contacts.
Scotland Yard employees have been told to use ‘red’ and ‘green’ instead.
Will a ‘red-list’ be offensive to people of North American ancestry?
Can I object to ‘red’ because it has connotations of negativity, mechanical domination, and superiority?
What happens if someone in Greenland (albeit temporarily) is put on the red list? Will they become a sort of drab olive colour?