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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No More ChristmasI come from Birmingham UK. There are quite a lot of people from India and Pakistan living there so Birmingham City council banned Christmas and decided that "Winterval" would be better. Even the Muslim's said it was rubbish and they actually enjoy Christmas.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 13:07, 4 replies)
Exceptthat this isn't actually true is it?
Winterval was all the stuff that they did in the month of decemeber - the food stalls and stuff in town, all the events they held.
They still celebrated Christmas as well...
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:33, closed)
it is true....my friends mom's work makes them call it winterfest and not christmas.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:53, closed)
There's plenty of Christmas cheeron the Birmingham city council website...
www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=78983&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=126
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:32,
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faragher's rightthey didn't BAN Christmas. Nobody can BAN Christmas.
Like most PCGM stories, this one is bollocks. Oh, all right, partly bollocks.
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Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 21:32,
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