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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try this one for sizeVoltaire's famous dictum was "I disapprove of your views, but would fight to the death for your right to express them."
The Political Correctness dictum is : "If I disapprove your views I will write a really strongly worded letter to the Guardian then pass laws to prevent your right to express them, whilst you fight to the death to allow me to do so"**
** That is as long as you don't belong to any minority group in which case your views no matter how extreme MUST be tolerated because otherwise that would be oppression.
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 14:41, 2 replies)
fair enough, butI'm not sure that left-wingers, on the whole, are more in favour of censorship than right-wingers.
PS it was Evelyn Beatrice Hall, summarising Voltaire, rather than Voltaire himself.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 8:54, closed)
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