Well, I think now I must have heard it all. This morning’s newspaper reports that a nursery school in Britain is teaching the kiddies to sing a new song. To avoid causing offence to anyone of darker skin tones, the old nursery rhyme has been re-worded to “Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep, have you any wool?…”

The Sure Start centre near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, said: “We have taken the equal opportunities approach to everything we do. No one should feel pointed out because of their race, gender or anything else.”

Er yes, but what happens when a child looking at a black sheep now believes it is a rainbow sheep, then looks at a rainbow in the sky and wonders why it is not black? And is that child being taught there is something wrong with the colour black that it must be coloured everything in the paintbox except what it is? This is becoming totally confusing. Oh wait a moment, this is the beginnings of colour theory… that black is the sum of every colour in the rainbow. Now I get it. How very clever. Of course these children must also be taught that what’s in their paintbox is only half the story and in fact, if you mix all those colours of that rainbow in the sky by feeding them back through a prism, the result is not black at all. It kinda makes black really be white afterall. All very interesting stuff, of course.

But the truth of the matter comes back to calling a spade, a spade. I had it said to me recently that Political Correctness is just the Christian’s “Golden Rule” in practice - doing unto others as one would want done to oneself. If I don’t like my toes trodden on, then I must apply the same principle to other people’s toes. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. If I believe I am right, then you must be allowed to believe you are right also. Well of course you can - that really goes without saying. But it goes beyond belief (er, literally!) as the implication is that we are both believing the truth even although we may totally contradict each other and one of us logically and rationally clearly has to be wrong. Oops, my inbuilt bullshit alert has just sounded. That has to be an essentially PC definition of itself. It is not how I would define Political Correctness which I believe to be just plain dishonesty. And it is worse than just plain dishonesty since it distorts and controls thought processes to suit a particular socio-political agenda. Through it we are moulded to the thinking of the current age, to that of the masses, to that of all the other rainbow or otherwise sheep in the paddock.

Do Rainbow Sheep actually exist?
If in doubt, ask Google. I did, and Google came up with an answer.
Here it is: Rainbow Sheep

Now, off to do something worthwhile with the rest of my day…