Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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Odd one outAfter I graduated from uni I ended up getting a job opposite the uni and in dire need of cheap accommodation I managed to get a place in the student halls. I'd already lived there 3 years but all my flat mates had moved home.
So I ended up as the 5th person in a flat with 4 Asian lads. Was a bit odd but not too bad.
Anyway, one day my mate in round and we're all having a natter in the living room and got onto the topic of shops and so on when my mate blurts out "Yeah, just nip down the paki shop!".
Everything goes quiet, you could hear a pin drop and in the room are about a dozen faces staring at my mate. I thought he was gonna get lynched!
Then my Indian flatmate pipes up... "Don't worry, I call them paki shops too".
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:25, Reply)
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