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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My two pennys worth on thisThe whole PC Gone Mad malarky is pretty much a myth - perpetuated by the Daily Mail and Sun as a tool to sell their papers, and by middle-management types who like to get offended on other people's behalf. eg. who the fuck decided that "brainstorming" is offensive to epileptics? Certainly not anyone with epilepsy that's for sure!! (I am epileptic).
No councils are banning Christmas or replacing it with "Winterval", St Georges Day is celebrated widely...theres no need to panic!
There are 2 things that annoy me about this issue though:
1) Ethic minorities being exploited:
For instance, Leaflets, TV adverts etc with "token black/Asian" people in - surely that's get to be more offensive and an outmoded concept! If I was black actor and an agency asked me to be in a commercial, I wouldn't like to think "they just want me for the colour of my skin" but that would be in the back of my mind. The Government agency adverts are such an example of these. The only Government ad I've seen that has not got any "ethnically diverse" people in is the one about benefit fraud (presumably because to suggest that anyone other than white people commit crime is a big no no).
2) Positive Discrimination:
To deny someone a job due to the colour of their skin has to be the ultimate in racist behaviour, but due to "diversity targets" it is happening every day, mainly in public sector police/fire/teaching/civil service posts. So when a police chief is faced with 2 equally qualified candidates for a job, but one is Asian the other white, to chose either based on their ethnic background is totally wrong but this stupid government with its targets means that their hands are tied!
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h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 23 Nov 2007, 11:06,
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I entirely agreeMy mates constantly fall for this "political correctness gone mad" stuff.
We had a big debate not long ago about the "super mosque" planned for london. Among the things they had heard about were the fact that it was going to "dwarf st pauls" and would cost the taxpayer 100k.
Literally 30 seconds searching on the internet and i discovered that 1: It would have a larger square footage than st pauls but would be on 2 (or 3, i forget) levels, so it wouldn't "dwarf" anything. 2: the 100k was being put up by a private backer.
Most "PC gone mad" stories are like this. When you look at the facts they don't seem quite so bad.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 11:15, closed)
It's called"Positive Discrimination" and is practised widely in New Zealand due to the low socio-economic status of several ethnic groups. It's the suck.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 6:39, closed)
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