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You would be amazed at what lengths goverment is going. Referring to children born to illegals as "anchor babies" is now taboo. People also cannot refer to illegals as illegals, they are considered "undocumented Americans". Government is telling parents what their children have eat in school and not allowing lunch be brought in from home. The latest is "War on Women" and contraception. They want to pass a law that women who are taking birth control inform their employer. Government also want to put up a website naming doctors, patients, and other personal patient details of women who get abortions.

I also read that employers are now asking for the usernames and passwords of job candidate's social media accounts, like FB etc. so they can look around. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012 ... oyers.html

PC can be taken too far - and I'm with those who say that these kinds of reports of changes to names of Easter Eggs are silly and unnecessary. In this case given that many people believe Easter is named after the pagan goddess of fertility Eostre and that Easter Eggs are a hang over from pagan festivals of fertility/represenations of spring time festivals - renaming Easter eggs for PC purposes is particularly silly.

However, we should be careful about the Daily Mail reports - the reports of Christmas being cancelled and other scare stories have in the past been exagerations and not reflective of reality. Most schools, councils etc are actually quite sensible and all communities do enjoy Christmas etc.

Like Memri reports - it is best to get independent confirmation of these types of reports and establish the full context before taking all that is reported as the whole truth.

Cheers,

Shafique