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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Rosa Parks would be turning in her grave...I live in Chicago, a city it would be fair to say is ethnically diverse. Specifically, I live on the Southside of Chicago, which is a predominantly black area. What I really like about this is the fact that Bird's custard powder and Heinz tomato soup can be found in the ethnic foods aisle of my local supermarket! Never has being a pasty Brit made me feel so exotic...
A friend and I caught the bus back from the El station (the Chicago equivalent of the tube) fairly late one night and as we boarded the bus, took the remaining two seats at the back. There were maybe 30 people on the bus, and about a third of us were white. By some quirk of coincidence, all the white people on the bus were sat at the back together. This offended a black guy's sense of integration and he came storming up the bus to bawl us out for segregating ourselves as we didn't want to mix with the blacks. He was a bit unhinged and getting sweary and aggressive, so I slunk further and further down into my seat and avoided all eye contact.
Eventually salvation came in the shape of a tiny little black lady who must have been 70 if she was a day. She got up, prodded him with her walking stick and ordered him to...
"Sit back down and stop making all that noise boy, it's black folks like you that mean the white folks still think we're stupid..."
She got a round of applause from the whole bus.
See, I'm so PC, I let an old woman fight my battles for me. No age discrimination here...
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 22:52, 7 replies)
Souds like the red line...about 5 years ago while drunk with some other hooligans and returning from Beverly, we had a man give us some attitude for the same thing...that and we were all sporting cropped hair... once our Jamaican friend sat down with us he was quickly put in his place.
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 8:57, closed)
..God bless fearless little old ladies.
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 10:50, closed)
AntarticaTwas indeed the 55 bus from the Garfield Red Line.
That station scares me...
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 14:12, closed)
The last timeI was in that part of Chicago, my mate and I (both very white) felt very conspicuous, if not actually threatened.
But it was the middle of a summer's day. I wouldn't fancy it much at night.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 16:31,
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K2K6...Well due to those feelings you mentioned...that is why I am a Northsider... life is just better there...
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 18:34, closed)
Oh ayeThe northside rocks, definately. It's the place to go out and no mistake, particularly as there's only one bar near my house. One. And I practically live on the University campus. There's something deeply flawed with that.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 18:55, closed)
Betterthe Cubs than the White Sox.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 8:58,
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