Gotta love the fact
that the black kid on "South Park" is called Token.

PC might have started off as a way to make us not racist / sexist - this country was fairly bad in the 70s, one only has to think of "Rising Damp" and "Curry and Chips" as examples of it - but surely now the message has hit home; and for the whites amongst us, exposure to people of different skin types shows that they are just as, if not in many cases more so, racist as we are / were.

People should be judged on who they are and what they do - and calling black coffee "coffee without milk in it" , wittering on about "differently abled" and so on just offends everyone bar the Millie Tant imbeciles who think this sort of shit up.

And no, I read the Guardian, not the Daily Mail.

...and breathe...
( I_Was_Mordred, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:59, 9 replies)

Rising Damp?
Fucking hell, Rising Damp was NOT racist. Leonard Rossitter's character Rigsby had racist overtones with his dislike of Philip (the black student) but Rigsby was always the one that got the comeuppance, aiming a well-directed kick at his cat Vienna when another plan to seduce miss Jones ended in misery. Now if you mean Mind Your Language on the other hand...
(highly_defined, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:10, closed)

south park
I like the one where they substitute 'rich' for 'black' when loads of rich black families to live in the town. Edgy, satirical stuff.
(frankspencer, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:14, closed)

OK, OK
Not Rising Damp - my memory ain't what it was - but you get the picture...
( I_Was_Mordred, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:35, closed)

chef: sir, have you ever heard of the emancipation proclamation?!
general: i don't listen to hip-hop!

where would we be without parker and stone.
(notjustahatrack peeling a sausage..., Thu 22 Nov 2007, 17:16, closed)

99.9% of people don't care about
"calling black coffee "coffee without milk in it" , wittering on about "differently abled" and so on" - it's just that whenever anyone does certain people try to whip us up into a national hysteria about it.
( Zuowan, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 20:29, closed)

I would agree with that
if only I knew any black people. But I don't, so I can't.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 23:03, closed)

Mind your language
I just got back from Nigeria, where the pirate DVD sellers on the street were proudly hawking box-sets of Mind Your Language. Which I guess proves nothing, beyond the fact that black people can find bigoted stereotypes funny too...
(stalinism, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 13:41, closed)

Mordred, I broadly agree with you
but the increase in the BNP's vote suggests that the message has not entirely hit home.

(Before you scoff, there are a hell of a lot of Labour voters who would switch to the BNP the moment it gained critical mass...)
( Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 22:32, closed)

If you think we're racist now...
...I advise you to read the "Mass Observation" diaries written by UK people just after WW2.
Mass Observation was the blogging of its day. A collection recently published was written in the late 1940s by men and women of most ages and classes.
The amount of people who wrote - and this is *after* they knew of the atrocities of the concentration camps - that Hitler was right and should have killed off all the Jews - was shocking. Not just the elderly people, younger writers who were enamoured of the then socialist government.
So we have come quite far in several generations - not far enough maybe, but PC in its extreme forms is making things worse, not better.
( I_Was_Mordred, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 16:04, closed)