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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Stuart Lee..... again - made a perceptive comment on this in relation to the Jerry Springer: The Opera fandango, along the lines that making jokes about the white protestant mainstream is different, because everyone in the UK is fairly immersed in that mainstream, knows how it works, understands it, and so on. That's not the same with, say, Islam, homosexuality, non-whites, etc. His point is that there's nothing wrong with making jokes at people's expense but only if you've got your head around that which you're lampooning. You don't have to be all that fluffy to anyone - but you do have to take the trouble not to be a boor.
That seems reasonable to me. I'll lampoon the idiocy of (say) Islamic extremists, radical lesbian feminists, or anyone else - but that's because of their idiocy. I know idiocy. I'll lampoon their beliefs to the extent that I know and understand them. But I don't think I'd be justified in going further.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:19,
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