"she was allowed three, four minutes of television time and nobody really got stuck in to say what the rest of us watching wanted to say, which was something like, 'Don't waste our time"
It seems to me that your complaint was simply with the stupid decision of the news broadcast to allow a woman with a stupid point of view time to say stupid things. Those stupid things were by no means "PC" if you and the entire viewing audience recognized them as stupid things. As far as I know, she is not part of a movement that is seriously pressuring anyone to implement her stupid ideas and Dustin Hoffman is still the go-to actor to play someone of his age with Aspergers. Your story might be worth relating, and we can all shake our heads n wonder, but what this has to do with the topic of political correctness is beyond me. I'm wondering how, according to you, we distinguish idiocies that are PC from idiocies that are merely idiocies?
To flog the dead beast further, it seems possible that her foolish views may have resulted not from a desire to advance the disabled, but from artistic concerns. One might believe that it is desirable, to the extent possible, for purposes of realism and authenticity, to have actors who share the qualities of those they are portraying. No one wants to hear an American actor doing a bad British accent. No one wants to see an actor who is six foot four starring as Napoleon Bonaparte. This is not because we want to advance the cause of short actors, but because it would in many ways be ridiculous to portray Napoleon moaning about his height while gazing down on the foreheads of those he addresses.
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