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Article: Public vexed by political correctness
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- December 12, 2006
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Simon McGee
Political Editor
POLITICAL correctness is overwhelmingly unpopular among the people
it is supposed to be helping, according to a poll showing that four
in five questioned are fed-up with it.
The Yorkshire Post can reveal the results of an ICM poll
commissioned by the Campaign Against Political Correctness (CAPC),
which suggest that positive discrimination and action on the basis of
race or gender are disliked irrespective of people's own background.
When asked "Are you fed- up with political correctness?" 72 per
cent of people living in Britain who do not describe themselves as