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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PCI worked in a school last year, and attended various staff meetings about acceptable terms. 'Brain Storm' is now unacceptable because it may cause offense to those prone to epilepsy, so we now use 'Mind Map'.
I asked a year 10 student who suffered from epilepsy what they thought about this and he said "It's more offensive that whoever writes this crap thinks that epileptics would get offended by 'brain storm' in the first place!...what the fuck is a 'mind map' anyway!?"
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 13:12, 3 replies)
?aren't they different things?
i though a brainstorm was changed to a thought shower (just writing whatever comes into your head), whereas a mind map categorizes thoughts onto main branches, then smaller branches etc
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 19:04, closed)
I'm also a suffererand until now I never associated the term 'brainstorm' with my condition.
I don't feel offended. I do feel a bit unwell, though....
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Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 21:28,
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My wife has epilepsy...... and she refers to it as 'spazzing out'! If it's not one thing it's another.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 0:05, closed)
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