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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May not be a racist, but she does get around...In the local paper was this...the story is about 30-year old man was racially abused and assulted by her neighbour
"She was calling me a smelly paki and a nigger and to go back to Iraq and Afghanistan. I felt sad for her, I was born in Kuwait and been in this country since I was three"
She denied being racist or making racist remarks - "I was very drunk but I'm not a racist. I've been with a half-caste and a negro. In terms of boyfriends I've had every race under the sun"
Not only did she used the words "half-caste" and "negro" in a Magistrates court, but her argument that she isn't a racist is based on her having slept with a man of every different race...that's quite a few isn't it?
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 15:04, 4 replies)
negro isnt racist, its a race, like caucasianhalf-caste is dodgy, though
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:47,
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I'd say negro was dodgy tooeven worse is to refer to a black woman as a "negress"
But then maybe we should learn not to be afraid of words...
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rhebus ac201fd270c3b96beab24f2829780ab2, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 17:03,
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half casteHow on earth is half caste racist. Maybe only if said by a white person about someone half black/white. What about when it's said by a black person about someone half black/white.
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I still say half-casteI had no idea it was a racist term now, i just thought it meant someone half black half white in a non-racist way. what the bloody hell do we say now??
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