However, if you're one of the British royal family, who famously wore a Nazi uniform, there are no consequences at all: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4170083.stm

(All the more worrying when you consider that they are in fact Nazis: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...igure-sum.html)

Because he is trying to be politically correct.

Can you blame him? Nowadays it is super easy to upset people with long term revenge|payback issues..i know. I also by misunderstanding(s) upset few. Not on purpose!

And we wonder why society has slid down so far?

Sometimes we have t tell people too bad and to get over it.

I think you're underestimating the extent to which political correctness has gone. It's no longer enough to tell people to get over it, they vehemently use it as a weapon to further their own agenda, and that's quite an easy thing to get support for since it's looked on as occupation of the moral high ground. Just look at what happened to Richard Stallman, one of the most outspoken and opinionated men in FOSS, and his outspokenness was used as a rope to hang him. The reason why people like Jordan Peterson haven't succumbed to that yet is because a] he hasn't been fighting the good fight for that long comparatively and b] he has the academic chops in psychology to show most peoples' arguments up for the idiocy and ignorance that they are rooted in. Political correctness can be staved off or even defeated by sharp historical and psychological knowledge. We need more people like him, even just a few more who are as capable would probably be enough to make a big change.

Herd mentality, people can not seem to think for themselves. Everyone gets hurt over the slightest issue.

People should realize their feels do not control others.

The more billions there are, the easier to stereotype* handfuls.

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So much of what appears as PC is just spun to look that way when the real motive is protected, inflated profit. This appears in US Pharma claiming their regulations produce the finest, most reliable quality medicines justifying the near monopolies they own, while for example US Insulin is almost ten (10) times more expensive than in Canada, Yeah right US Insulin is 10x better.

Another one that gripes me no end is that for centuries Brazilian Rosewood was prized as a beautiful and gorgeously distinctive tone wood for musical instruments. Brazil locked down raw wood exports decades ago and the CITES laws have evolved so far that musicians traveling with instruments made with Brazilian Rosewood, often manufactured decades before the ban, were legally confiscated AND BURNED!

Lately vast acreage of Brazil is burning to make way for agriculture and industry and these trees burning include 100 year old Brazilian Rosewood trees. This despite the whole concept of "endangered species of trees". On top of that hypocrisy, a man who was trying to muggle some Brazilian Rosewood seeds out in an attempt to build a small forest of them in Fiji was arrested, fined $100,000.00 USD and the seeds destroyed. https://www.fws.gov/FieldNotes/regmap.cfm?arskey=36795

There was a case in the UK recently; Someone wanted to bring in a fortepiano of historic importance (I think it was one used by Mozart) for a special concert using period instruments and wasn't allowed to because it had ivory keys.

I'm surprised at that since ivory items made before 1947 can be imported (and traded) in the UK. Was there a suspicion that some of the keys had been repaired/replaced with more recent ivory?

Laws aren't real and someday Ivory like many woods won't be either... sad but truly run over with babies.

Seems the "Yes" vote is winning out... interesting. I doubt any babies voted but...

I'm not sure of the details. I've tried to DDG it but can't find the reference. But the law on antique ivory has certainly been tightened up recently.

Haven't voted so I have to click on the link to see.