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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liberal child forced into 'racism'I think agree with the general idea of political correctness, but...
when I was a baby fawn and in a London comprehensive primary school where 85% of the kids were black or of various other refugee ethnicity (Somali, Kosovan, etc), I was horrendously bullied for the majority of my time there.
I was fat, a swot, and had a bowl cut so it was to be expected really, but I did get a lot of abuse from the Arabic kids about being Jewish (the only Jew in the school). It got worse and worse, and when I told the teachers they helpfully did nothing. So, when I was due to leave a year earlier than everyone else to go to a very prestigious public boarding school I was inordinately relieved and vowed to continue holding in my anger until I left.
But one day the taunts and weird Palestinian abuse got too much finally and I burst.
"IT'S BECAUSE MY PARENTS ARE RICH AND JEWISH THAT I GET TO LEAVE THIS SHITHOLE. ", i shouted. "YOUR STUPID REFUGEE PARENTS CAN ONLY AFFORD THE GHETTO COMPREHENSIVE SO ONE DAY YOU CAN ALL LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING ME CHIPS".
Those were the actual words I said too. I can remember this as it was the only time I ever stuck up for myself in primary school.
The result? I nearly got suspended for racism, and would have ended my comprehensive education with an expulsion.
Luckily Daddy Fawn stepped in and used his Jew claw to make sure I wasn't expelled and I spent the rest of the term hiding from arab children.
Ironically, I went to the West Bank in Palestine for part of my gap year to help an aid organization.
(sorry for the length, it's my first time and I can feel the blood trickling down my legs)
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 8:19, Reply)
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