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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Missing the point..."If you treat someone with different coloured skin different then you're being racist."
The point, though, is that although racial discrimination today is largely extinct in the sense of "I'm going to make you be my slave because you're black", it still still exists in many people's subconsciouses.
There is a tendency to assume that an Indian or Chinese person will be hard-working but not very creative, that black people are artistic but lazy, and so on - and then, to let those prejudices affect your interpetation of their behaviour.
So sometimes, it may be appropriate to make a conscious effort to overcome those internalised prejudices. Which might ostensibly involve 'treating someone with different coloured skin different', but is anti-racist rather than racist.
"But Stalinism, I don't have any of those racial prejudices - I don't make judgements about people based on their appearance, so I'm OK" - no, you *do* make judgements based on race - *everyone* makes judgements based on race, and *everyone* needs to question them on a regular basis to avoid unwittingly behaving in a racist way.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 13:50, Reply)
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