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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AgamemnonIQ is a factor of environment, not just genetics. Particularly nutrition. To suggest that black people are, on the whole, poorer than white people is not to stretch the truth really. Poor people have poorer nutrition; fact. Ergo, it is not racist to say there is a tendency for certain ethnic groups to have lower IQs - no one has suggested that this is BECAUSE of race; but there is a statistical relationship caused by other socio-economic factors. It is a fact (a proven fact) that poorer people on average have lower IQs than more afluent people. Ignoring something that has been proven to be true over and over again will not make it go away.
Musuko is dead right. There is a big difference between establishing a relationship and establishing a causal link. Just look at that rubbish about red meat causing cancer - when infact it is merely the case that people who eat a lot of red meat tend to eat less vegetables.
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