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)
« Go Back
Netherlands & PCHere in the Netherlands you don’t come across PC very often. If you are Dutch you can more or less say what ever you want about any group. The PC brigade seems to be mostly expats. A friend takes great delight in rubbing up expats by telling them her dad was a nigger.
At the moment you can see this cheeky chap running around the country. The call him Zwatre Pete, Black Peter is the translation. If you ask any Dutch person who he is, the most likely answer you will get is, it’s Santa’s Slave. WTF
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 10:14, 5 replies)
That gives me the fear!Time for a schmoke and a pancake
(
Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 10:23,
closed)
Black Peterdoesn't he beat you and take you to spain if you've been bad? So my dutch friend told me.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 10:42, closed)
I can't forget Breda, 2006I'd driven from my brother's place in Northern France across Belgium to score some weed in the nearest Dutch town, Breda.
Having then sampled some of the wares purchased, wandering out through Breda I got the fear big time when I saw these blacked-up freaks going round the town.
Holland's a great place but what with blacked-up Peters, and all the trams, cyclists and canals in Amsterdam to scare the stoned tourist, it's also an obstacle course - very much "the quick OR the dead".
(
I_Was_Mordred, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 11:16,
closed)
I remember him!I always wondered if you could still get away with these days.
/lived in Holland as a child blog
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 11:19, closed)
Similar thing in Germany...in Germany, St. Niklaus visits a couple of days earlier than Xmas (Baby Jesus personally bringing presents on Xmas Eve - I think it's all down to some sort of franchise or something), and Nick brings with him a similar fellow by the name of "Knecht Ruprecht" - a charming chap who will beat any children who haven't been good.
You should see the effect he can have on kids. Even the threat of him - ie just Niklaus appearing at the door, to the more guilt-ridden kids, can have them screaming and crying.
(
Stevedix http://www.stevedix.de/blog, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 13:59,
closed)
« Go Back