Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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Apparently...Because of my ethnic background (my Dad's Iranian) and supposed 'religious upbringing' (on my birth certificate it says I was born Muslim) I was allowed to have Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha off school to celebrate the festivals. This was part of my school's acknowledgement of it's cultural diversity and willingness to please the local minority communities (Political Correctness or Equality For All? You decide!).
However, I didn't know this, and didn't find out until I was in college. When I confronted my dear mum (the wardrobe launching, UKIP supporting, shopped-her-own-son-to-the-cozzers mum) about this, her response was...
1. I'm white
2. I'm more Yorkshire than Geoffrey Boycott
3. I love bacon
4. All of the three above kind of justify her actions.
Now, I was quite impressed by this display of reductional logic by my dear ma, because she was never known for her brains.
But, then she topped it off with something on a completely different school of thought and much more in keeping with her philosophically challenged reputation...
"And anyway, them Pakis get Christmas and Easter off as it is, lazy sods should be grateful for that. Fookin' Political Correctness gone mad."
I love my mum. Blind to her own family's background, and the female equivalent of Bernard Manning.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 17:58, Reply)
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