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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The World's Unfunniest Rag MagI once edited a Rag Mag. This consisted of going to the Printers in Manchester, and selecting jokes out of a big folder, which would then be pasted up.
I say I edited it, because, unbeknownst to me, it was re-edited behind my back to be more "Politically Correct" by a Student Union Officer (Read:Politically-Oriented Stooge). All references which were politically incorrect were removed and substituted, rapidly leaving the Magazine looking like the infamous "politically correct joke" - "Several ethnic minorities walk into a non-racist, non-genderist entertainment centre, and have a good time" - except they weren't even as funny as that.
They left my name on it, though, didn't they? Fascists.
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