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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
OK, fair point, but why do you think they're being politically correct? Surely, they're just following their commercial instincts? There may well be a lot of Asian people in, but they're obviously hoping to attract even more to boost their profits. Can't see anyting PC in that, unlike a lot of the legislation that various governments have brought in!
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Government decisions that have been made in the past have been voted on and brought into force by consent. You or I may not agree with all of them but harking back to previous governments and criticising legislations that happened in the past aren't really productive. The world changes constantly so to my mind it makes more sense to try and learn from what works and what hasn't worked and try to avoid those mistakes again. We've had years of rather silly decisions from all corners based on not offending people, but the irony is that if they'd just left well alone in many instances there would have been no problem.
To an extent, the feeling of antipathy towards positive discrimination is beginning to get itself noticed and this KFC business is a case in point. An attempt to be seen to be faith-embracing and multicultural simply to impress a section of society that already buys their food has caused resentment among the non-Muslim customer base.
I suspect that this little marketing ploy will ultimately not go down well with the majority, including Muslims who will be seen as the instigators.