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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I agreewith them having the right to say these things, but the Oxford Union also had a right to not invite them - this is not a case of their ideas being restricted.
Also, reasoned debate and clear logic doesn't seem to work with people with such extreme views, on either side of the political spectrum. As shown by the decline of Oswald Mosley in the 1930s, a perfectly viable way of stopping the spread of their poisonous ideas is to restrict their platforms - removing their legitimacy.
This is not an argument for censorship, but people seem to forget that free speech is more that the government should not restrict them expressing their views. The Oxford Union does not have this responsibility; indeed it is arguable that they are restricting my right to free speech by not letting me speak there by this logic.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 21:49, Reply)
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