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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"Belm"I used to be in the Air Cadets.
Dead keen I went along to a drill hall in Henley-on-Thames twice a week and pretended to be Biggles.
The powers-that-be decided that we needed a little local publicity, so they invited the Henley Standard along to take pictures and write an article on the joys of joining the Spacers.
For some reason, the bloke took a lot of pictures of me pratting about with some old RAF equipment, and went away well pleased.
Come the following Friday, a freshly-printed Standard walloped onto our doormat, and my brother and I raced to see what they'd written about us.
On the front page was the heart-lifting story of a severely disabled lad who had just received a brand new electric wheelchair from a local charity. There he was, in his chair, sporting his protective headgear, a wonky smile all over his face.
On page three, there was Cadet Corporal S Duck striking exactly the same pose in an ex-RAF Canberra bomber ejector seat and a WWII vintage flying helmet. I was - quite literally - lost for words.
"Muh!" I finally managed.
"You spacker," said my dad, a sentiment echoed by just about everybody I met for the next month or so.
The following Friday's Henley Standard letter page was given over exclusively to letters from disgusted readers.
Never ask for fame.
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