Politically Correctness Gone Rampant

So I'm sitting in my car on the way to work this morning and they are talking on the Bill Carroll show (CFRB - awesome station) about how in Britain, the educators are starting to not discuss the holocaust as part of history class, for fear of offending the muslim students.

I almost swerved my car into a lamp post when I heard this, and desperately tried to call in, but the lines were, not surprisingly, tied up.

Is it me, or am I sensing that people these days are afraid to speak the truth for fear of offending people. Frig, the holocaust happened, millions of people died. How can you possibly try to alter history to try to appease a minority group? Thankfully, a couple of muslim folks called into the station and vetted their outrage at how the teachers lay down and went with the school boards' proposals. Whatever your opinion of Israel or what's going down in the Middle East right now, you can't conveniently omit real parts of history, as ugly as they are. Besides, if I was Jewish, I'd be the one who was offended that such an atrocity is now being covered up by the educational system.

If it was a holocaust denier saying the same thing, he/she'd be charged under the hate speech part of the criminal code. Yet when education systems do it, it's OK??

Makes me more and more want to save up my pennies to send my boy to private school, rather than the politically correct left-leaning education system that seems to be so prevalent in so many countries.