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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Amazing....Peter Jackson is directing a film which features British bombers destroying dams in the Ruhr which resulted in substantial loss of civillian life and didn't alter the eventual course of the war to any significant degree...
And people here are debating about a black labrador dog called "Nigger"!
Yes, the word is extremely distasteful but you have to view it in the context of the times.
A film about the exploits of the Tuskagee Airmen for example (an American squadron of fighter pilots who were exclusively black and who fought with distinction protecting bomber crews during WW2) is allowed to feature the word "Nigger" as it conveys a sense of prejudice. Argueably, the producers of the film about the Tuskagee Airmen would have gotten away with using the word "Boy" in the same context.
My personal view is that I am more comfortable using the word "Cunt" than ever I am using "nigger" - even in this context. However, I still see no reason to call into debate its use in the Dambusters film. You'd have to be pretty fucking dumb to see its inclusion of anything other than a reminder of how times have changed... And we don't exactly send large, four engined aircraft to drop bombs on Germany anymore either.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 15:13, Reply)
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