Sir Tim Hunt resigned from an honorary position - he still lost his job over fairly harmless remarks. As I said, it could have been dealt with over a pot of coffee in about 5 mins. Are you comfortable with his resignation?
I take it you didn't actually read my previous response as I answered both of these points, you do realise that his remarks were directed at all women working in laboratories? Exactly how big is this pot of coffee?
The rest of this thread is 'The Sun/UKIP we want the good old days' nonsense - absolute b*ll*cks. Society has worked hard to eliminate the sexist, racist, homophobic language of the 70s, and rightly so. As punk said, you're somewhat missing the point. Verbal/racist/sexist/homophobic abuse is obviously wrong and should continue to be outlawed. I think what Punk is getting at is that ordinary people aren't allowed to politely express themselves and state views outside of the narrow band of liberal orthodoxy without some t*sspot screaming 'waaycist!'
What a well thought out response, congratulations, I can see why exams might give you problems. Perhaps you could give an example of whatever point you are trying to make because the OP only talked about minorities and you haven't given an actual example either.
Personally, I find that people who complain about being called racist are racists.
Considering the feelings of other members of society doesn't make you the PC gestapo, it makes you a nicer human being - a respected scientist was forced out of his job because of the delicate feelings of the professionally outraged. Congratulations.
I'm not sure why you are repeating yourself, again my previous post answered this point with actual verifiable facts.
P.S. I don't read The Sun and I don't support UKIP.
Do you not recognise that you are echoing the low-brow arguments of those two institutions, of whom you could genuinely say are actually guilty of professional outrage.