"Weirdly, it always seems that those people who complain the loudest about political correctness gone mad and how you can't say anything these days are the ones who seem to find a way to let everyone know how they feel. It's almost as though they do protest too much. Poor Sarah. Think how she suffers. Imagine the things she might come up with if only she didn't have to hold herself back."
"Her whole life had been blighted by having to see so many brown and black faces on TV. It was like a form of torture for her. She couldn't even bring herself to pause the ads and then fast forward. Every black face she saw was like a knife to the heart. The number of black and brown faces drove her mad, she said. What Sarah wants is a world of whiteness."
Reform MP Sarah Pochin complained on TalkTV about the presence of brown and black faces in television adverts, describing them as torturous and saying they drove her mad. She said she could not even pause and fast-forward through ads, and compared seeing Black faces to a knife to the heart. Pochin expressed a preference for a world defined by whiteness and cited even bread adverts as triggers. Conservative whip Katie Lam previously won a similar unflattering accolade, but Pochin quickly took a leading position in public criticism for these remarks. Pochin later claimed clumsy phrasing and denied intentional discrimination.
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