New Olympic events.

So, that would also dictate that my frequent use of the self deprecating term '1st world problem' I aim at SWMBO to avoid tasks I deem irrelevant to the given moment must also be racist.. Dear dear I must learn to keep up, is there an instruction manual? PC for unreconstructed dinosaurs?

Edit.. so what does the panel feel about the term 'Gammon' and it's obvious application to the Finn class association?

Edited by iGRF - 16 May 18 at 10:51am

Originally posted by iGRF is there an instruction manual? PC for unreconstructed dinosaurs?

Of course not. The publishing cycle would be too short, and besides, how could the PC look down on the unPC if PC language was formally documented and anything but a continually moving target...

iGRF,
About the same as FD Gorillas
TT,
Rhyl, that's in Wales, never, north too, full of scousers, forget about it.

With respect, I think you may have got your history a bit muddled here. I believe the term ‘third world’, or rather ‘le tiers monde’, was first coined by the French economic geographer Alfred Sauvy in 1952 in a gesture of solidarity with those countries that had recently achieved or were still in the process of achieving their independence from the European colonial powers. Sauvy was drawing an analogy between the third world and the third estate, or ‘le tiers état’, that is to say all those who, under the French ancien régime, being neither clergy nor nobility, had few or no rights or privileges. At the time of the Revolution of 1789, winning equal rights for the third estate was a key political goal, as expressed, for example, in the Abbé Sièyes’s famous 1789 pamphlet, Qu’est-ce que le tiers état? Implicit in the term ‘third world’ was hence the notion that, like the third estate in 1789, the countries concerned were being unjustly deprived of equal rights. As a result, through the 1960s and 1970s various left-wing anti-imperialist and anti-racist movements emerged which were often categorised as ‘tiers-mondiste’ or third-worldist. Forum readers may remember the 1970s Jamaican reggae band, Third World, whose name was surely an expression of their commitment to those tiers-mondiste ideals, in their case a kind of anti-racist pan-Africanism rooted in their Rastafarianism.

It’s true that the term fell into disrepute thereafter, I believe because it projected a questionable uniformity onto the wide variety of countries in question, while implying they were all characterised by an inherent inferiority in comparison to the so-called ‘first world’. Nonetheless, it is surely unfair of H2 to imply there is any equivalence between the term ‘third world’ and a blatantly racist slur like ‘darkies’. To claim any such equivalence is to risk overlooking the close association between the term ‘third world’ and the history of radical anti-racist and anti-imperialist movements in the C20th.

Originally posted by 423zero JL, correct, I have muddled Cold War up with 1st World war, 1st World = USA UK and allies, 2nd World = USSR, China etc, 3rd World = Non-aligned countries.