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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I used to work for HMRC(no, i haven't got those two CDs, mores the pity - i could tell you some stories about posting information unsecurely but that is for another QOTW)
Anyway, back to the point.
Christmas
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not excactly a devout Christian, but at the end of the day Christmas is a Christian festival celebrated by, not exculively, Christians.
So why the feck were we told that any 'Winter Festival' decorations in our office could not be Christian orientated incase they offended any other culture/religion.
Of the colleagues who i spoke to, Hidus, Sikhs, Muslims, not ONE of them found the CHRIST in Christmas offended, and were deeply embarrassed by the PC in their name.
Anyway, we converted the end of the office into a full size nativity stable, straw and everything. My manager wouldn't let me bring in live farm animals, but papier machee goes a long way.
When anyone complained, a few of us got on our high horses and screamed - we are Christian, let us celbrate our festival.
We won that one - a victory against PC
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O RLY?(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 17:13, closed)
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