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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Just a quick oneBecause I've got a deadline...but I can't resist answering qotw...
My Dad
He was a policeman...straight off that marks him down as Institutionally Racist.
And he likes to read the Daily Mail.
He also says that if 'they' live here they should speak English, or go home. 'They' should take up 'our' customs.
He's Scots. Lived in England since he was in his early 20s. Hates the English...well, not entirely...but all his best mates are either Scots or Irish...and Catholic...not 'bloody' Protestants.
However, many years ago he was shopping in Brixton with my mother (her family lived in West Norwood). This would have been the late 60s. Dad saw a young black man getting beaten up by a gang of white lads. Dad was pushing my sister's pram, hands it back to my Mum, goes over to the gang (people were walking past and ignoring the 'fight'), he wasn't in uniform, but gets out his warrant card, tells them to leave the black guy alone...amazingly they did.
Now Dad was simply doing his job you could say and in fact it *is* part of the police's job to stop crime whenever they see it, regardless of whether they're on duty or not.
My Dad is the first person to admit he's bigoted (Alf Garnett was his hero) but he's always the first to speak up against injustice - regardless of the person's sex, colour, religion, sexual persuasion, or their physical abilities either.
His step-mother is a white South African...who believes Apartheid should be brought back - he thinks she's both embarrassing and quite mad. When my parents visited SA they went on 'black people's buses' - they were cheaper.
I think he sums up most British people's attitude - not keen on 'difference' when it's presented as an entire race, religion or nationality. Individuals are entirely a different matter - he'll dislike people on the grounds that they're an idiot...and idiots are all colours, creeds and opinions.
But he does think the people in Kent (where he's lived for the last 30 odd years) are tightfisted, a bit rich coming from a Scotsman.
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 11:52,
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Tight?You're right. For true tightness, go to Yorkshire.
Definition of a Yorkshireman - an Aberdonian with the generosity squeezed out of him.
(I would like to point out as I put the armour on, that I am a sweaty with yorkie blood)
(Ducks)
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 12:01, closed)
Tight?We're not tightfisted. We're very generous with our money. We just don't piss it all up the wall on crap all the time.
When it comes to money, the only people I've come across that are as generous as the Scots are the Irish.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 14:46, closed)
Quoted for Truth"Tight?
We're not tightfisted. We're very generous with our money. We just don't piss it all up the wall on crap all the time.
When it comes to money, the only people I've come across that are as generous as the Scots are the Irish."
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 14:55, closed)
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