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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ChinkyThere was a kid at school whose eyes were a bit narrower than the norm and so he naturally earned the name "Chinky". One day, as I was trying to extort his dinner money or something, he went crying to the dinner lady that I was racially abusing him by calling him Chinky. I was hauled before the headmaster and warned that it was a very serious charge. And the kid was no more fucking Chinese than I was! How about if I'd gone to the headmaster the next day and said that someone'd called me coon? D'you think he would have taken me seriously? Probably.
EDIT: I should say for the record that am not black. Though I fully support people who are, Or who are not.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:12, 1 reply)
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