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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MonkeyboyMy 8 year old son attends a school with a pretty good mix of cultures. Last year he was reported to the PTA and the local government for a racially offensive remark. I had to attend an interview with the headmaster, fill out forms and accept that this was going onto his record at school.
What horrors had issued from his cherubic lips?
Well, while playing with one of his (many) black friends, the game changed from football to "At the Zoo". My son was an elephant, his friend was a monkey; said friend stuck his ears out and said "I'm a baboon". My son laughed, pointed and repeated "You are! monkeyboy!"
A "midday supervisor" (they were dinner ladies in my day) saw this and reported it.
I'd just like to repeat. He is 8 years old and now terrified of making an inappropriate remark.
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my_cat_has_no_shoes meh meh meh MEH MEH, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:35,
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moneyboy to monkeymanI would bring a case alleging the 'mid-day supervisor' was racist in appearing to associate monkeys as used in the innocent phrase 'monkeyboy' with any race in particular. She (I'm assuming the mds is a 'she') made the racist association, not your son. Start the case rolling (threaten to write to governors, local papers, education authority) with allegations of misconduct against the mds and settle for withdrawal of the remark from his record.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:29, closed)
That's exactly what they wantif the PC mob can get us terrified of saying anything that might be considered discriminatory by some nameless, faceless government body from the age of eight - or, preferably, birth - then they will.
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Shegetz Chris Kamara's comedy moustache, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:16,
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That's appallingSo they think the comment would have some kind of lasting damage done to the boy it was aimed at, but they're not willing to assert the same courtesy to avoid any lasting damage to your son?
Ridiculous.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 15:01, closed)
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