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Corrie to be investigated over Eva's 'Kunta Kinte' remark
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/26/coronation-street-kunta-kinte-eva-price-catherine-tyldesley
A harmless remark (out of place it might be) attracts so many complaints..........I despair at times! PC gone mad.
A harmless remark (out of place it might be) attracts so many complaints..........I despair at times! PC gone mad.
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What is so sad is that in many countries people are killed, imprisoned, exiled etc by corrupt dictatorships for speaking out about important things that actually matter. Our government can sleep easy in the knowledge that there will never be any need for that over here - we now literally self-censor to the nth degree, even about trivial subjects that matter not one jot, so abject has our fear of political incorrectness become.:(
Free speech doesn't mean you can say what you like without consequences.
Have to disagree with the posters in here - I don't think society is PC enough
My point exactly - but I went with the same scenario with Eva saying "My hairs that greasy - how did they cope at Auschwitz with no proper showers"
I'm usually against PC - but I winced at this....not enough to contact OFCOM however
What an overreaction !
Eva - "I'll stay with you but you have to choose either castration or I cut off half of your foot - worked for Kunta Kinte and it'll work for you!"
Maybe Eva could become obsessed with Kunta Kinte and make constant references to him....lol
I agree. It wasn't making fun of the topic OF the show, it was only comparing it to the show's TITLE and the theme of 'roots' through referring to the main character. There is zero connection between her hair roots and slavery and I don't think any connection was intended in any way, shape or form and its a stretch to try to assume there was.
That's only partially true, and many people think that the level of consequences are often out of proportion to what was said these days.
It's only partially true because you can maliciously say you were offended by something just because you wanted to feel a bit of power, make others bend to your will and basically be a bully. There are never consequences for that anymore. It doesn't matter how unreasonable the claim was, nothing bad will happen to you. You can then just say that whoever you were originally complaining about was dismissive or that they were diminishing your experiences if they don't do as you say.
It results in living in a world where there is no such thing as an unreasonable claim of being offended and people have turned it into a sport as you can actually get famous out of doing it.
Put it this way, if the subject matter of the book Roots was not slavery, the comment would still make sense.
Thanks.
The voice of reason as always. Cheers J-B. :cool:
Don't get me wrong, I think we could all do with standing up against racism more. It's pathetically stupid to hate someone just because of the colour of their skin.
I just think of the boy who cried wolf. If you claim racism at every little thing, it makes it harder to battle actual racism as people are less likely to take you seriously. Pick your battles.
Could they have managed without that line? Yes, So why didn't they?
Maybe they wanted a reaction. Bad publicity is good publicity I suppose.