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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"Who hires these people?"My client works for a very PC corporation with a US head office based in Atlanta.
They've recently hired a new CEO, who is this very nondescript looking Continental European fellow, but who - according to my client - is actually a pretty funny guy, if a little blunt.
Last week my client was telling me about one of his colleagues - an obese black woman with a reputation for incompetence - who was just fired.
Upon hearing about this the CEO apparently said, in very forceful terms, in his pidgin English (imagine every other word literally being spat with great disgust):
"She's a black, fat, woman. Who hires people like that? You can never, EVER fire them."
The Americans in the room moved like lightning to provide on-the-spot PC training to him, but secretly he's become an instant legend to them.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 15:53, 1 reply)
Irony senses tingling!It's so difficult to fire them because of PC that you avoid hiring them in the first place. Somebody in Racial Harmony PLC will be kicking themselves over that one.
But how do you meet your equality quotas?
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 18:38, closed)
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