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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Job Centre - part 1This, from the BBC, in 2000:
Disabled charities and a government minister have criticised a job centre which banned an advert for a "hardworking and enthusiastic trainee" on the grounds it was discriminatory.
Businessmen Jason Pitt and Bill Wood were told by a job centre in Walsall, West Midlands they could not use the phrase because it could exclude disabled jobseekers.
No - really: see news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/781058.stm
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 13:10,
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Surelythe job centre themselves were discriminating - as good as saying that disabled jobseekers were neither hardworking nor enthusiastic?
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Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websitesCan't you read, man?
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Mitsy, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 10:47,
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