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Did anyone catch "Is It Cos I Is Black?" last night, on BBC3? A chap from the Asian network set out to discover if Britain was PC MENTAL, by going into Asda dressed as an orthodox Muslim and asking for left-handed toilet paper in a very thick accent. The shop assistant helped him look for the (obviously fictional) product, also for Halal chicken and so on, which apparently proved that Britan was PC MENTAL. Likewise the restaraunt owner who, when asked if his food was Halal, took a moment to explain that he didn't know what Halal was but would be happy to find out, and would be happy to have some meat cooked that the guy had brought in of his own. He wasn't just being commendably open-minded and looking after a customer - no, he was PC MENTAL.
Actually the program did get slightly better - an average white guy, a white guy in a wheelchair, and the aforementioned presenter all applied for jobs, confidently assuming that because Britain was PC MENTAL the average white guy wouldn't get any and the other two would. Actually he got twice as many as they did, which ruffled some feathers, but seeing as Tower Hamlets council provided literature in several languages PC MENTALNESS was obviously still on the rampage.
Later they were going to read out a load of racist jokes, just to prove that they weren't PC MENTAL, but then they found themselves feeling uncomfortable. Which of course had nothing to do with the jokes being desperately unfunny, and the reading desperately unnecesary, but was because, after all, maybe we are all PC MENTAL. |
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