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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Official Forms ......that ask for ethnic origin details. Why is there never an option for "don't know".
Some of us were adopted, y'know. OK, I'm generally quite pale, but not as pale as most. So clearly there's something to report. Surely asking for this information is discriminatory against the adopted? I think I should sue.
Can I tick "don't care" instead?
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:41, 7 replies)
Agree.What exactly do they mean by 'Ethnic Origin'? I'm certainly not a 'Caucasian European' by origin.
I'm black North-African, Welsh (shudders), Jewish, German, French, Icelandic, American and probably a few others too, by origin. Just because I happen to be a white bloke, I'm not of 'Caucasian European' origin.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:49, closed)
I work for the NHS......and patients are asked for their ethnic origin when they come to a ward or a clinic.
It's mainly for statistical purposes but there are some underlying clinical reasons too (Africans are more susceptible to Sickle-Cell Anaemia for instance), but it's all a farce anyway because you have to put down whatever the patient tells you, even if they're clearly taking the piss.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:58, closed)
I always lieespecially when face to face with someone. Race is far too sensitive an issue for people to question it but the looks I get claiming to be of mixed Chinese-Afro Caribbean origin while sitting there as pale as the driven snow is hilarious.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 13:16, closed)
^all these^I'm looking for the "Well,-African,-if-you-mean-that-I'm-a-human-and-that's-where-humans-originated-although-most-of-my-ancestors-probably-left-about-100 000-years-ago-still-all-the-same-the-Roman-Empire-was-fairly-cosmopolitan-so-you-never-know-sorry-am-I-losing-you?-but-really-I-don't-give-a-fuck" box to tick. It's never yet been on any form I ever saw.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 13:19,
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Surely......if this kind of thing was motivated by a desire for racial equality, there would ne no such boxes anywhere? Asking us to arrange ourselves into neat little ethnic groups for ease of identification and classification can only lead to division, surely? Shirley? Chorley? Chorlton and the Wheelies?
Also, it smacks of Nazi eugenics a bit. Racial classification, that is, not Chorlton and the Wheelies.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 13:24, closed)
Official FormsThere should be a tickbox for "Mind your own fucking business, you nazi".
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 15:19, closed)
I always tick "Other"then if questioned about it say "Ethnic Soup"
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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Sat 24 Nov 2007, 14:48,
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