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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Ethnicity in year 11 SociologyAhh.. 'Twas a Balmy day in the summer of 2005 in year 11 Sociology. A room of hormonal teenagers being tought about being politically correct and what not to call people of certain races.
Apparently, and it's bollocks, you can't call somebody black because the actual term is 'Afro-Carribean'. But white people are just called 'white'... Also, none of my black friends find being called 'black' offensive.
So, PC being taken a little too far by a leftie Socio Teacher with a petchant for pies? I think so!
Apologies for Length, yes... but Girth. No chance
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 17:42, 6 replies)
So what do you call blacks who aren't from Africa or the Caribbean?(
Bob Todd whee, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 18:08,
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Bob_ToddMy thoughts exactly. I can't keep up with the correct terms for anything any more. I thought it was considered wrong to use the term 'special school' but apparently not. I also thought 'black' was fine, but again, apparently not. What if you don't know where the person is from? And, going by this logic, why is it OK to call all white people 'white'?
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 19:04, closed)
confusingI can't understand why you can say Brit, but not Paki.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 21:11,
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ExactlyIf I were black, then I would take much more offence at being labelled with the names of two places in the world.
The same goes for "African-American". It makes no sense. What happens when an American of Jamaican origin gets called that? It would anger me if I were in that position.
If a person has lived in the UK - or USA - all their life, and even their parents were born here, then what sense is there to label them as if they were from another part of the world?
My black colleague is every bit as British as I am: to call him "Afro-Caribbean" would be an insult. He is NOT from Africa or the Caribbean: he is British. I don't want to be called German-Welsh, just because my grandparents were born there!
This actually is the perfect example of PC gone mad. Labels changed in such a way that they're not only meaningless, but they are likely to cause offence in themselves!
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 10:07, closed)
Sociology? Right-On Nonsense?Are you saying that the two sometimes coexist?
Blimey. Who'd've expected that?
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 10:34,
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EuroSongExactly the kind of thing which lead to the Merkins thinking they were being PC when they called Nelson Mandela an African-American.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 18:31, closed)
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