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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EnzymeThe alternative is censorship... Which is something I'm very uncomfortable with as it effectively drives the debate underground.
Democracy should be about open debate, but it so often isn't. We are deluged with rhetoric day after day from our elected representitives, so it's no wonder that extremism can continue to flourish when open and reasoned debate is actively discouraged all round.
That may sound like a damning indictment of the existing system and yes, it is. We are seeing fewer and fewer people exercising their right to vote because they feel disenfranchised and disillusioned, under these conditions extremism does indeed appeal to masses who feel the same way.
Get these people into the debating halls I say, let them say their piece. Then let's hear the counter arguements. Does hearing what Nick Griffin have to say encourage me to vote BNP? Hell no. Does selective censorship bother me? Hell yes.
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 10:07, Reply)
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