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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Justintime? Not very funny, but then most of these arent. B3ta...stick to funny quote of the weeks!!!A few years back my Student Union was holding their annual elections. Now the union was split in to two factions: you had the typcial students (liked indie, Guiness and Hot Cross buns for brekky, you know, the usual type) then you had the 'hip hop crowd'...
The whole point of an SU is to be impartial, and stick up for the rights of students.
The was one team who were determined to play 'The Race Card'. They 'won' the election ( later, rumours of a fix went around...) and screwed Steph (what a legend) out of being Union President. When the result was announced, the whole SU chanted Steph's name is protest, it drowned out the PA system, and the DJ had to call for calm...
The previous adminsitration had a rule for music on SU nights: strictly 80's cheese. That way, the indie kids couldnt complain, and neither could the hip hop crowd. It was a safe option.
So this new President was voted in. I'm not going to go on about how racist she was.
These changes were introduced under the banner of 'treating everyone the same' (how can you treat everyone the same, when you go out of your was to disciminate?????) Including introducing music that nobody who actually attened the SU liked, takings going down week after week, and pretty much we abandoned the SU.
During this Presidents Administration, the SU asked for Freshers Angels- 2nd/3rd year students to help the freshers.
Now in my 3rd year, and having already been an Angel the previous year (what a way to get fresh fish!) I enrolled again. To be kicked off...kicked off because i'm not White.
Yep, you read that correctly.
I was told I could not take part in the SU welcome because I was not white. I think its more because I liked Guiness and Hot Cross buns for brekky and supported Steph, being quite a vocal supporter of her! Treating everyone the same my arse. She was voted out. What a bitch.
Length...you cant feel anything cos your loose.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 12:55, 2 replies)
Sounds like my old SULondon met by any chance?
(Twas UNL in my day)
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 13:10,
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No, it wasnt, but I heard of similar things happening down there..It was the old Uni of Luton SU, now Uni of Bedfordshire.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 13:29, closed)
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