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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Job Centre - part 2Job Centre part 1 was motivated by a vague memory of a story in which a person was told that they could not advertise a job requiring a sunny disposition because it discriminates against the miserable. Or something. I can't find the exact story, so if someone could enlighten me, that'd be lovely.
Anyway: while searching, I did manage to find this on PersonnelToday.com: "[A] requirement for 'a cheerful and sunny disposition' may exclude candidates suffering from depression or other mental illnesses" - see www.personneltoday.com/articles/2007/01/09/38776/legal-quiz-recruitment-advertising.html for the full, brain-spazzing idiocy.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 13:14,
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See, I dunno.I really hate job advertisements that say that. If I want to be miserable it's none of their fucking business, so long as I get the job done.
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Zuowan, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:09,
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All the jobs I've ever seenwith this phrase included have been minimum wage jobs. You might start out cheery but it sure wouldn't last long!
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:42, closed)
Cheerful and sunny dispositionIt does however include certain doors, I recall.
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 17:11, closed)
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