'Red Band Society' Ads Pulled from Los Angeles Buses After Complaints of Racism and Sexism

I saw these "Red Band Society" ads running on TV over the summer. They looked hard-edged and risque, although not something that ought to have been banned.

But then, leftist political correctness is destroying basic decency and common sense in this society, and folks can't express disagreement without being tried in the progressive court of public opinion (an Inquisition).

So this is no surprise, at the Los Angeles Times, "Metro yanks Fox TV show bus ads branded as racist, offensive to women":

An advertisement for the new Fox television show “Red Band Society” was abruptly pulled from Los Angeles Metro buses Thursday after activists complained it was racist and offensive.

The ads for the series that premiered this week show actress Octavia Spencer next to the words “Scary Bitch.” Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Marc Littman said the agency decided to remove the ad because that label “denigrates women.”

“That speaks for itself,” Littman said. “That was not acceptable.”

The ads, which have been up for five weeks, will be removed from 190 Metro buses as soon as possible, said Metro spokesman Dave Sotero.

The announcement was made Thursday at a Metro committee meeting where a few dozen protesters showed up to speak against the ads. Among them was Jasmyne Cannick, who said the nickname perpetuates negative stereotypes about black women.

“I don’t know if I find it more offensive because I’m black, or more offensive because I’m a woman,” said Cannick, 36. “I sometimes think our city forgets that there are black people that still live here and call Los Angeles home.”

 The woman is perpetually aggrieved, and milkin' it for all it's worth.