Yorks Post Letters Expose Cant.

From: David Cook, Parkside Close, Cottingham, Hull.

CAROLINE Thomson, the BBC’s chief operating officer, said at a recent conference that the use of expletives was acceptable in the name of comedy and one of its objects was to cause offence and make viewers flinch.
This being the case why did the BBC feel the need to apologise profusely for the use of the word “fairies” or “coloured” when referring to footballers?
Words we all must have used at times without causing distress to anyone.
Surely a case of double standards or have I missed something?
From: Jim Beck, Lindrick Grove, Tickhill, Doncaster.
IT is inevitable that the meanings of words change over time but there is something wrong when Alan Hansen has to apologise for describing ethnic minorities as “coloured”.
Today, I am not allowed to say that my wife and I have a beautiful coloured niece; I have to say that she is black, which she is not. And to say that Halle Berry is black, when she is a delicious shade of café au lait, is equally absurd.
So how is it that millions of African Americans choose to belong to the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People? I smell hypocrisy.