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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Is it cos I is black?Now here’s a thing for those of you feeling left out by mentoring schemes, and the like, that are only open to people of colour.
You don’t have to be ‘black’ to be ‘black’ – race and culture are to do with your self identity rather than the amount of pigment in your skin, so if you want to claim your black heritage due to a great great grandmother or whatever and get yourself on a black student mentoring scheme, go for it.
And should some MOFO be less than 100% appreciative of your place on the scheme you can set the PC attack dogs on them. No one can deny you your racial identity because you don’t fulfill their idea of what a ‘black person’ should look like.
On the face of it, this might seem a bit bonkers, but if you work through concepts of ‘race’ and identity it makes perfect sense.
Stick it to the man.
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Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 23 Nov 2007, 17:31,
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heritageMy Grt Grandad was from Schleswig-Holstein in N. Germany. In my teens, I looked like a poster-boy for the Nazi youth. I've give up bothering to apply for jobs with the council, the NHS or in education.
That last bit's not true, there's no real demand for an IT layabout.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 18:22,
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I like your thinking!How come white people can't claim racism? After all i sometimes feel Black people are judging me for being white...
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being blacksurely we are all of african decent and can therefore all claim our rightful place on such mentoring schemes
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