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)
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PJMWell, I have serious misgivings about democracy - at least, I'm unsure about majoritarian electoral democracy - so that particular point kinda bounces off me.
The censorship point strikes me as presenting a false dichotomy - I don't see why it has to be the case that you can have censorship or licence and no other option. I don't know what that other option would be or how it would work, but I that doesn't validate the dichotomy.
I agree with you that reasoned debate ought to be sufficient to flush out idiocy. But the problem, again, is that speakers are not rational and neither are listeners - notwithstanding that there are PoMo objections to the centrality of reason in the first place. (These objections fail, but they aren't crazy.) People do not vote for rational reasons, or decide their opinions for rational reasons (which is partly why I distrust electoral democracy). The position that you take is rather like that of Mill in "On Liberty". I would like to share your optimism... but I don't. Nor do I have any easy solutions. Wish I did.
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