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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PC is the new racismIt is, think about it.
Racism is basicly treating someone different because of they have a different cultural background than you.
Hiring someone because you don't have enough "ethnic minorites" in your company is still hiring someone because of the colour of their skin.
Treat people as people and not a skin colour. No matter which way you go. If you treat someone with different coloured skin different then you're being racist.
(yes I may not know the official definition of Racist but this is just my own humble opnion)
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:02,
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Good pointAlthough making crass sexual jokes to a Muslim woman in full hajib (or whatever it's called) is likely to be a bit more offensive than to a rough white slapper with her norks hanging out. Although the Muslim woman might not speak enough English to understand the joke.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:09, closed)
Well that's religion.That's slightly different. It's not the physical form you are taking the piss out of, it's their thoughts and ideas.
Challenging thoughts and ideas is a great way to help the human race evolve. So go on, encourage the mental growth of the human race. Take the piss out of an idiot today.
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:15,
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'Positive' Discrimination...Is still discrimination at the end of the day...
*clicks*
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:21,
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Pooflake:I've been saying that for years, like, exactly the same wording and everything.
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Green Spanner and his magical lack of activity, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:22,
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To clarifyRacism is making an assumption about someone based on nothing but their race
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ivystopia Last seen on, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:33,
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exactlyAnd I'm black, so I must be right.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 20:20, closed)
Missing the point..."If you treat someone with different coloured skin different then you're being racist."
The point, though, is that although racial discrimination today is largely extinct in the sense of "I'm going to make you be my slave because you're black", it still still exists in many people's subconsciouses.
There is a tendency to assume that an Indian or Chinese person will be hard-working but not very creative, that black people are artistic but lazy, and so on - and then, to let those prejudices affect your interpetation of their behaviour.
So sometimes, it may be appropriate to make a conscious effort to overcome those internalised prejudices. Which might ostensibly involve 'treating someone with different coloured skin different', but is anti-racist rather than racist.
"But Stalinism, I don't have any of those racial prejudices - I don't make judgements about people based on their appearance, so I'm OK" - no, you *do* make judgements based on race - *everyone* makes judgements based on race, and *everyone* needs to question them on a regular basis to avoid unwittingly behaving in a racist way.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 13:50, closed)
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