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)
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I've just read a Peter Jackson interview...and he says he hasn't made his mind up about Guy Gibson's dog yet. He did say that he wanted to encapsulate the 'spirit' of 1943 instead of doing it in a '2007 documentary way', and acknowledges that people's attitudes were different then. He then said:
"It's a situation where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you go one way, people are going to say we've sold out to political correctness. If you go the other way then you're obviously going to be inadvertently offending people. So, it's a no-win scenario."
The problem, as I read - is that not only was the dog called 'Nigger', but the name was used as a code word for when they breached the bomb, and therefore is more integral to the authenticity of the plot.
Should be quite interesting to see which way he goes...
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