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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mid-1990's, anti-racist all day festieIt was in some park in London, I forget which one. Big day festie, bands, DJ's all the usual stuff to celebrate diversity and oppose evil racism. right on.
While taking some shade under a tree, noticed a young afro-caribbean chap march up to a nearby burger van, push through the assembled crowd (of white trendy liberals) and demand his chicken and egg burger from the man at the counter.
Much shuffling of feet from the rest of the queue was apparent, as were a few sidelong glances in the style of 'the evils'. But mostly the guardian-reading types just pretended it wasn't happening.
reply received from fellow betan...
You know that has little do with the fact he's black.
It's almost definitely because the queue were British. If somebody pushes their way to the front of the queue, regardless of colour or creed, the vast majority of people will disapprove but take no action, especially if you do it with enough selfconfidence.
my reply to the reply...
Could well be, us Brits are notorious for queue related shenanigans. I found it ironic given the location however.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 19:24, 2 replies)
You know that has little do with the fact he's black.It's almost definitely because the queue were British. If somebody pushes their way to the front of the queue, regardless of colour or creed, the vast majority of people will disapprove but take no action, especially if you do it with enough selfconfidence.
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 14:24, closed)
..well that......and a desire not to get stabbed.. :-p
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 15:45, closed)
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