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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Technicallythere isn't such a thing as 'race'. It was a term invented by eugenics fanatics and purists in the mid 19th century, and was used to separate the human race into four distinct groups: whites, blacks, browns and yellows. Which of course is really how the world is set out, isn't it? Just four types of people.
It makes me laugh, then, when people who are supposedly combatting racism, refer to the 'black' or the 'white' race. there just simply isn't one. there is evidently a difference in skin colour, but this is broken down into infinite numbers of ethnic make-ups, most of which are only identifiable by detailed genetic analysis.
Labelling people by 'race' is crude, and, as a matter of fact, just as derogatory as the racists themselves, i.e. those who despise people simple because of their skin colour or nationality.
Slightly off-topic, but I find it adds some solace to those of us who feel hemmed in by 'ethnic awareness' training at work, and political correctness obsessions that plague our country.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 18:10, 1 reply)
It's a small world after all.(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:44, closed)
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