When a stereotype is true, can you report it?
Other than festivals linking a group to stereotypical behavior (e.g. a chitlin cookoff with all black folks or a tractor pull with a lot of country people), most papers avidly try to avoid reporting an event reinforcing a non PC belief that given groups tend to do given acts.
For example, people from India are civil and passive. One of the funniest standup routines I’ve ever heard is an anglo comedian imitating the angriest Indian he’d ever heard. It went something like: “Sir, you have greatly offended me. It is my wish that you leave my shop and never return again. You are not a nice person at all”. Now if that was the worst thing a comedian could think of to offend my heritage, I’d be pretty happy. But it wouldn’t be the Indians who would be offended, it would be the PC crowd who take grave personal offense on behalf of all people on Gaia’s green Earth.
Well a couple of days ago ten terrorists killed about 500 people in Mumbai. The photographer who took the iconic photo of one of the killers said that there were numerous armed police present in the train station, but they refused to engage the terrorists. He even said that he wished he had a gun along with his camera.
And this is actually reported in a newspaper from Northern Ireland. Good to see that the PC virus hasn’t infected all of the British Empire.