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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Free Speech (pearoasted from a reply to 'belms' down below)OK, serious hat on now...
Free speech means freedom to say whatever you please, but you must also accept the consequences.
If I advertise an opinion that has weak grounds for support, it will eventually be debated and I will very probably be made to look a fool. I can deal with that. If, on the other hand, my opinion has widespread support, it will be encouraged and reinforced.
If I say something suspected of being illegal, I can expect to be prosecuted for saying it. The law is based on precedent, which means that if something is illegal, it's because it's already been tested in the courts. If what I say is not illegal, but suspected of being so, I get the chance to prove my point in a court and if I'm right, I should win the case (maybe a little optimistic, but that's the foundations of case law).
Freedom of speech is a self-regulating concept as long as the law continues to be based on testable cases, and as long as intelligent, reasonable people stand up in the face of their obnoxious opponents. With that in mind, the BNP doesn't really stand a chance.
I would hope that Oxford is capable of producing formidable opponents for the likes of Griffin and Irving and so I'd encourage the hate-mongering twats to participate in a debate in that unforgiving arena. If the students of Oxford can't rise to the occasion and defeat such worthless adversaries in a public debate, then the British education system should be ashamed of itself.
(Off with the hat!)
Send them to Loughborough Uni I say. The heckles there between comedy performers and the audience are legendarily barbaric. The 'comedians' of the BNP would be torn to shreds on stage. Jo Brand actually quit the university comedy circuit after visiting Loughborough... maybe the BNP would be persuaded to quit politics.
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chart cat has an itch, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 9:33,
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Well done Loughborough!Unfunny, man-hating harridan.
Jo Brand I mean, not you!
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Brand's entire act that fateful night...Brand: "Woo! Good evening Loo-ga-ba-ooga!"
Heckler: "Heard it."
Brand: "Fuck it, I'm off."
Heckler: "And you're ugly"
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 11:03,
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Loughborough UniI feel like I should add a comment as I go to Loughborough Uni and attend comedy club every week but can't be arsed to think of anything witty to say :p
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 13:01,
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"as long as intelligent, reasonable people stand up in the face of their obnoxious opponents"There's the rub, even once you've found said intelligent, reasonable people.
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@Synthesizer PatelI'm an ex-Elvyn Richards veteran, and I heard it was being torn down. That makes me sad...
Towers, on the other hand, is still standing 20 years after it was meant to be demolished. Wretched carbuncle, with its coffin-shaped rooms...
And @Misanthrope: if the world falls into terminal decline because people capable of steering it towards the light choose instead to do nothing, we are all fucked. I've personally always liked Ghandi's quote "...be the change you wish to see in the world"
If I ever get my chance to go head to head with these tossers, I'll verbally tear them yet another arsehole. It's the only proper thing to do.
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chart cat has an itch, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 14:27,
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