In relation to the subject: a friend of mine complained about the historical "inaccuracy" in "Who" the other day, i.e. the Venetian people who happen to be black (hopefully not a spoiler for you...) and I explained that we don't actually live in 14th century Venice either... he was irritated that they were more interested in being PC than anything else.
It really irritates me to hear this sort of thing, because it is so clearly racist, but I really don't know how to counter it other than sounding all "PC" myself and saying that it's wrong to discriminate simply because black people back then were slaves... I mean, it's a real wtf thing to say regardless, no?
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Date: 2010-06-28 12:17 am (UTC)In relation to the subject: a friend of mine complained about the historical "inaccuracy" in "Who" the other day, i.e. the Venetian people who happen to be black (hopefully not a spoiler for you...) and I explained that we don't actually live in 14th century Venice either... he was irritated that they were more interested in being PC than anything else.
It really irritates me to hear this sort of thing, because it is so clearly racist, but I really don't know how to counter it other than sounding all "PC" myself and saying that it's wrong to discriminate simply because black people back then were slaves... I mean, it's a real wtf thing to say regardless, no?