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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Censorship InsanityI spent 5 months in America at the start of this year and have to say that the TV is about 10 years behind the UK in terms of liberalism.
This is funny as fuck. Although they preach to be a country of free speech and bla bla bla, no swearing is allowed even in the evenings. It's really weird.
We were watching Showgirls and obviously only watching it to see a bit of tit. Cue our amazement when they had digitally put bra's on all the girls in the strip club! WTF! What has the world come to me thinks! Digital fucking bra's, they weren't even done well.
+ if people put there middle finger up it's blurred out + people can't say shit or fuck or anything swearwordlike.
Yet they can be openly racist, that's just fine and dandy! Yeehaa!
It makes no sense. Free speech my ass!
Length: so long you can choke on it!
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 9:53, 4 replies)
Is it true you can't say 'period' (in context of menstruation) on telly?Or rather you can, but everyone throws a fit over it?
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Bob Todd whee, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 10:04,
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Internet radioI was listening to a merkin rock station, I can't remeber which song, but they bleeped out the words, "oh my god" or something similar and left in "mother fucker"!!
Interesting and frankly scary priorities.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 10:44,
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ReplyIt's like the priorities in the states are all a bit backward. Violence is fine, but swearing isn't. Guns are fine to carry around with you to dish out vigilante style law, but no boobs on TV. You can't drink until 21, but in some states you can drive at 15 and buy guns at 18. WTF.
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I've heard a number of songs from radio in the statesthat have had things like "god" and "suicide" bleeped out.
and there was that ridiculous apology that janet jackson had to make for (deliberately I reckon) getting her tit out at the superbowl.
america is ridiculous
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 11:18,
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