Political Correctness Gone Mad
Freddy 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)
Freddy 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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Right, I’ve got to stop biting to these responses!
Blimey Charlie, I’m loving the fact that what started out as a pretty standard controversial B3ta post has raised such discussion, with open forum and many alternating viewpoints.
Here’s the thing though…I’m not REALLY going to leave Britain and I’m not REALLY going to do any of the things in the post. As you and KernKraft have pointed out…I have IMPLIED things – using artisitic licence in the spirit of B3ta. .I can quite confidently predict that there will NOT be riots up and down the country as a result of my post. I’m used to people not giving a flying fuck to what I say and do.
Where I live there are at least two schools that have Hindi and Urdu on the curriculum…but as far as I can tell, nobody in this country has ever been ‘forced’ to learn anything. Ever.
I thought about the road signs thing when I remembered Welsh / English road signs and then thought that would be a good thing to put in. No factual evidence whatsoever. It just seemed to fit. It.was.a.joke. Maybe not Bernard Manning-esque…but a joke all the same. I’m not trying to seek refuge from my comments under the cover of comedy though. Call me a bluff old cynic, but I have a fair feeling quite a few posts on B3ta over the years have been based on made up stuff to get a laugh?
I don’t deny that ‘many of these policies are actually introduced by politicians terrified of offending anybody’. But does the offence or threat of offence have to start somewhere to prompt the reaction?
However…Hypocritical? I defend my (and your) right to free speech – true. I state that this is a free country and people can click ‘ignore’ if they want – true. What’s ‘extremely hypocritical’ about that? If you don’t like it you can click ‘ignore’ or post a reply?
But on the subject of hypocritical…You mention how I ‘imply’ things, and then go and imply things yourself. ‘most of whom’? – do you know all (or any) Muslim extremists? Bloody hell I hope not. You ‘implied’ that I was ‘angry’ – I’m not. I don’t get angry, I post things on B3ta. A site famous for it’s outspoken views, where everybody can say what they like. As long as it’s not about Prince. (fuck – did it again)
And for the record, I don’t think Prince is a cunt because he’s black. I think he’s a cunt because…well basically…he’s a cunt.
What cracks me up most is that nobody has spoken on my line about Coventry City Football Club being shit! But then that’s not such a ‘hot’ topic is it?
Anyhoo, I’m off home in a minute so you can reply what you like without getting an essay back…I’m doing a gig tonight in a pub run by three midget Indian blokes (really True! - They’re fucking top blokes as it goes and we always share a few pints post gig. I’m hoping to play New Year’s Eve there.)
Oh, and when I say ‘do a gig’ – I mean I sing and play guitar…not do some kind of hideous Jim Davidson (who is also a proper cunt) ‘nic-nic’ comedy gig….And yes, I do play songs by black artists…and women…and homosexuals. Music effortlessly unites cultures and sexual preferences in a way that all the PC wank in the world could never do. My only musical requirement is if it’s any good, then I’ll do my best to do a pissed up hatchet job on it. Still, some people seem to like that too…
I’m considering doing a new song tonight….I think it was by the ‘Soup Dragons’…
“Cos I'm free, to do what I want, any old time”
( , Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:16, Reply)
Blimey Charlie, I’m loving the fact that what started out as a pretty standard controversial B3ta post has raised such discussion, with open forum and many alternating viewpoints.
Here’s the thing though…I’m not REALLY going to leave Britain and I’m not REALLY going to do any of the things in the post. As you and KernKraft have pointed out…I have IMPLIED things – using artisitic licence in the spirit of B3ta. .I can quite confidently predict that there will NOT be riots up and down the country as a result of my post. I’m used to people not giving a flying fuck to what I say and do.
Where I live there are at least two schools that have Hindi and Urdu on the curriculum…but as far as I can tell, nobody in this country has ever been ‘forced’ to learn anything. Ever.
I thought about the road signs thing when I remembered Welsh / English road signs and then thought that would be a good thing to put in. No factual evidence whatsoever. It just seemed to fit. It.was.a.joke. Maybe not Bernard Manning-esque…but a joke all the same. I’m not trying to seek refuge from my comments under the cover of comedy though. Call me a bluff old cynic, but I have a fair feeling quite a few posts on B3ta over the years have been based on made up stuff to get a laugh?
I don’t deny that ‘many of these policies are actually introduced by politicians terrified of offending anybody’. But does the offence or threat of offence have to start somewhere to prompt the reaction?
However…Hypocritical? I defend my (and your) right to free speech – true. I state that this is a free country and people can click ‘ignore’ if they want – true. What’s ‘extremely hypocritical’ about that? If you don’t like it you can click ‘ignore’ or post a reply?
But on the subject of hypocritical…You mention how I ‘imply’ things, and then go and imply things yourself. ‘most of whom’? – do you know all (or any) Muslim extremists? Bloody hell I hope not. You ‘implied’ that I was ‘angry’ – I’m not. I don’t get angry, I post things on B3ta. A site famous for it’s outspoken views, where everybody can say what they like. As long as it’s not about Prince. (fuck – did it again)
And for the record, I don’t think Prince is a cunt because he’s black. I think he’s a cunt because…well basically…he’s a cunt.
What cracks me up most is that nobody has spoken on my line about Coventry City Football Club being shit! But then that’s not such a ‘hot’ topic is it?
Anyhoo, I’m off home in a minute so you can reply what you like without getting an essay back…I’m doing a gig tonight in a pub run by three midget Indian blokes (really True! - They’re fucking top blokes as it goes and we always share a few pints post gig. I’m hoping to play New Year’s Eve there.)
Oh, and when I say ‘do a gig’ – I mean I sing and play guitar…not do some kind of hideous Jim Davidson (who is also a proper cunt) ‘nic-nic’ comedy gig….And yes, I do play songs by black artists…and women…and homosexuals. Music effortlessly unites cultures and sexual preferences in a way that all the PC wank in the world could never do. My only musical requirement is if it’s any good, then I’ll do my best to do a pissed up hatchet job on it. Still, some people seem to like that too…
I’m considering doing a new song tonight….I think it was by the ‘Soup Dragons’…
“Cos I'm free, to do what I want, any old time”
( , Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:16, Reply)
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