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)
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The thing about these PC gone mad storiesis 90% of them are not true – lies if you will – propagated by a predominatly right wing press. And the ones that do have an element of truth are almost invariably public sector middle management or teachers getting the wrong end of a policy stick and generally fucking up.
Political Correctness attracts people who are a bit thick (cross over into public sector middle management) because it gives them comforting absolutes that they don’t need to think about. It’s the same with ‘health and safety’, green policies etc etc, these all attract unthinking drones who use these ‘absolutes’ as ‘trump cards’ to gain control in situations they don’t have the knowledge or ability to do so any other way.
There is nothing to be gained by engaging an ‘absolutist’ in conversation. Just agree with everything they say and ignore them completely.
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Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:07,
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Well put.*clicks*.
I suspect this QOTW might go quiet after a couple of days of spleen-venting.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:11,
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Profound, Insightful and fucking spot onPlease say that you are available to me at a moment's notice when I next get into an argument and need to blow the intellectual doors off an opponent.
*doffs cap*
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:18,
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well saidas readers of my earlier post will attest, I have been guilty of assisting in the propagation of these fictions.
they must have slipped under my "this is a load of bollocks" radar.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:32,
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Daily bloody MailHalf of what the Daily Mail says about "elf and safety" is lies, as is their stuff on political correctness.
I agree with you completely.
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I was in conversationwith someone who had worked with the HSE (Health and Safety Executive).
Apparently the HSE are sick and tired of being blamed for all sorts of idiocies. Institutions decide their own silly rules, and then blame them on 'health and safety'. Nothing to do with the HSE, who end up taking the rap because some people can't be bothered to justify petty regulations (which are usually put in place just in case someone sues them - however remote the prospect).
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Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 22:28,
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