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Originally Posted by Damien
It's not about political correctness. It's quite simple:
There is no reason why there should be a ethnic minority character in Midsomer Murders. Yet there is no reason why there can't be.
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But putting them in now would be false. we could accuse him of when he first started the show. he went out of his way to not include a non white because he's a racist.
he's not. it just went that way because it probably never crossed his mind about being PC and including them. and from choosing to cast them on purpose is no better than not in the first place. imho.
it's like literature with the council. they sometimes go out of their way to include on the front page an asian. and anything on the inside, a disabled person in a traditional wheelchair.
it's annoying in the way that these people are specially asked in what I imagine a "hello, you're different. can we take a picture of you so we can put you in our literature?"
how do they feel I wonder?
anyone read any good text story books lately?
(I don't mean the ones where they emphasise how big John is)
do they emphasise John being black. or is John just John?