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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Not me but my mumMy mum has been teaching in the same local education authority for over thirty years. This particular London borough has a rather special reputation for political correctness gone mad. Its name begins with B, which is often preceded by the word "Barmy" for the following reasons:
Teachers are not allowed to talk about black and white coffee. It has to be with or without milk.
Schools are not allowed to use black bin bags.
Teachers are not allowed to say the word "blackboard".
No singing "Baa Baa Black Sheep". It's racist.*
No nativity plays except in faith schools. But Diwali, Eid and Hannukah? Bring it on!
Blatant positive discrimination, such as promoting grossly underqualified black disabled lesbians to headships.
That really is political correctness gone mad. It's enough to make you wish you were black so that you could get all pissy at the patronising tokenism of it all.
*I told a black friend about this and he pointed out that it was actually a very PC song seeing as it's all about fair trade.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:28, 6 replies)
blackblackblackThis surely can't be true? There is something mildly offensive about trying to draw a parallel between coffee without milk, and someone's race. More offensive than using the word "black". It's like suggesting that a black person would take offense at being called black - which in itself is offensive isn't it? Or not?
Sorry I'm so hungover I'm boring myself.
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browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:12,
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I can assure you it's absolutely trueI suppose it's because if you say you prefer your coffee white, it means you hate black people. And if you put rubbish in black bin bags it means that black people are rubbish.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:42, closed)
I've heard......that kids have to sing 'Ba Ba Rainbow sheep' now.... :-(
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:52, closed)
welli read this as "so you could all get pussy" at the patronising etc.
oops.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 17:30,
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Actually I am...Sort of cafe au lait coloured, and this would drive me mad. Ooh, I knew this blackness would come in handy sometime!
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 19:01, closed)
Baa Baa Black Sheepactually, is slightly dodgy. All that "yes, sir, yes sir, three bags full" is meant to suggest subservient black slave talk.
But "rainbow sheep" is still very fucking silly.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:28, closed)
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