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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My granHas taken approximately 25 years of her 97 on this earth to get over long-ingrained views.
However, there was that difficult middle period, where PC had started to step into her life but she wasn't yet sure how to apply it properly. Strange, warped compliments were formed instead.
To the brummie-accented bloke in the Chinese restaurant: "You speak very good English"
About her nursing help: "Well, they [black people] make very good nurses. All that slavery experience"
To a friend who couldn't have children: "You wouldn't want them anyway. They ruin your life"
To a gay friend of our family: "Such a waste of a man, aren't you? You'd make a lovely husband"
I almost wish she HADN'T developed a conscience. You were always guaranteed a good, inappropriate giggle of an otherwise dull evening.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 13:08, 2 replies)
Crikey! That sounds almost exactly like my gran...Granny Jackboots we used to call her...
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Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Mon 26 Nov 2007, 13:12,
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My old mateLOL! Yeh, I know that problem, I have an older friend in his 60s who has lived and worked in Ghana, and he feels there's nothing at all wrong with the term 'Darkies', it was fine when he was working with 'em, so why isn't it now!?
The funniest thing is he has a bit of a penchant for them, and often talks of, 'That lovely darkie that works in the chip shop' and such, and I can't help but wonder at how well his chat-ups go.
Lovely bloke and totally not prejudiced against black folks at all, but lordy, the amount of sharp intakes of breath I take at times...
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