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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When I was at college, my class was asked to pose for the front of the ProspectusWe were all the Performing Arts lot, so we said 'yes' immediately, as we loved the attention. It was a fun photo shoot, and afterwards we went to the pub. Lots of laughs were had.
A few days later we were told that there was a problem with the photoshoot. Didn't the film process? Yes, it did. Wasn't there a photo of us all smiling? No, a lot of them were very good photos. The problem was that all five people posing were white.
What?
So, we were asked to come in again. Only this time, we were joined with an ethnic kid who was on the Fashion Course. His name was Dip. All day, he kept rubbing it in our face that he was "personally asked to appear", obviously because "he has the looks of a model". So many times that day I wanted to yell "No! It's because you're black!". Sadly, we couldn't.
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Story doesn't end there. When we were told we had to reshoot with a token black kid, we didn't know what to expect. He introduced himself as "Dip". This was an odd name. "Dip", I asked, "as in, Ip Dip Dog Shit?"
Turned out that phrase was used a lot in his childhood for racist insults. Dip never really got on with me.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:23, Reply)
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