DISCUSSION - behaving around other races, political correctness
OKAY SO THIS IS EXCITING. lksdhdfsjkdfa. I'm pulling a response to THIS POST and opening up the first of many of these discussions.
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A white person describes a black person as articulate. The black person takes offense, because of the somewhat old stereotype that black people are not as educated and cannot express themselves in a clear, ( Read more... )
question;
A white person describes a black person as articulate. The black person takes offense, because of the somewhat old stereotype that black people are not as educated and cannot express themselves in a clear, ( Read more... )
Back to this. I was a non-Caucasian growing up in western society, so I really appreciate it when people take their time to be PC about things. It may not even be racial PCness, a simple s/he would make me feel so much better than something written entirely using "he." Or "she." However, PCness can get a bit out of hand, sometimes. For example, we were working on this book with another publishing agency. (This only happened last week.) The book has a lot of illustrations in it of people, from all races. The other publishing agency wanted us to change all the pictures in the book that had black people in them, because they were afraid the way they'd be drawn (with slightly thicker lips) might be offensive to some. So we redid all the pictures. However, continuing from this line of thought, would that mean it is non-PC to include racial features? For what reason? Why would racial features even BE considered offensive? Because they differ to Caucasians? Taking a step back, is that presumption--that anything that is different is offensive--more politically incorrect than anything else? Wouldn't that suggest that it is because you think people inferior to you would not want to be reminded of their inferiority so you try to avoid it? If they don't even think that makes them inferior, what is there to offend in the first place? We would have nothing to worry about at all if we all looked the same, but at the same time, wouldn't that be losing the whole point entirely?
I'm sorry this is so long, my thoughts tend to go places I never intend for them to go, so if I have digressed, I apologise :)
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