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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Pretty much, yesThe representatives decide like that. The idea is that they act in the interest of the people - not as proxies. This means that they may not always act according to the wishes of the people they represent.
This provides some moderation of often dangerously fickle public opinion - indeed, in the UK we go further by having an independent judiciary who can strike down laws, eg. if they violate a principle such as habeas corpus, and by being a bicameral legislature - the House of Lords, by being not directly elected, is even less beholden to public opinion.
These things allow the government to (hopefully) prevent oppression and discrimination against minorities, by protecting their liberties.
Also, Hitler was *not* elected - President Hindenburg appointed him Chancellor, after he was persuaded by leading German businessmen who financially supported the Nazi party.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 14:23, Reply)
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