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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Political INcorrectness has gone madThere's a website devoted to "uncovering" stories of PC gone mad. It's a hateful site. One of the "mad" stories is of what the site calls "most PC job title" and it concerns some big-ish company that employed a "disability access officer". Which basically means someone who has the job of making sure the probably fairly large office is actually accessible by wheelchairs.
HOW THE FUCK IS THAT MAD? What do they want? All disabled people to work from home? Can an organisation actually do anything remotely helpful without being labelled "politically correct"?
I mean, yeah, there are occasions where PC does go a bit overboard but it's not really a massive issue, there's a balance to be made and some people misjudge it, it happens. It's not a conspiracy. There is no "PC Brigade". B3ta is sounding like the Daily Mail.
Plus 90% of these "Christmas Banned" stories are completley made up by the Daily Mail and its partner in crime, the Dail Express. Birmingham did have an event in 1998 called "Winterval" but it didn't replace Christmas and they haven't repeated it since. All "Christmas Banned" stories seem to be about "Winterval".
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 23:32, 2 replies)
The thing is...No one is going to research whether these urban myths are true or not, because all the "PC gone mad!" bigots want them to be true in order to reaffirm their prejudiced beliefs... If they actually found out that there's no "PC Brigade" out there to censor them, it would take away their feeling of being oppressed and righteous, which is half the fun of being a Daily Mail type.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 0:03, closed)
Hear hearThe worst thing is I *enjoy* these stories of Baa Baa Rainbow sheep and whatnot but it's just the latest way closet bigots express their views.
There are much more important things that happen in politics to restrict rights and freedoms than people feeling forced at gunpoints to eschew certain phrases and adopt certain others.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 0:50, closed)
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