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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PersonallyI think the trick is to treat everyone as a person, regardless of their race, ability etc. Which is why I really hate the crippled wheelchair Greeter at my local ASDA. Not because he's a grinning tit and a bolshy little fuck-pot from what I've seen, but because I don't need to be welcomed into a fucking supermarket by some moron who's paid to say it even if they'd rather see me dead. How hollow and meaningless is that greeting? And when I scowl at him, he just drools at bit and says something cheery like "Have a nice day, sir!"
I consider myself highly PC for disliking him. Everyone else says hello to him, but when some smelly old man who looks like a paedophile is the Greeter, people ignore him (as do I). Fair enough, I'd open a door for him or help him if his wheelchair fell down a manhole ([stifles laugh] but that doesn't mean I have to be nice to him otherwise.
But I do hate gypsies.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:30, 2 replies)
Keep that last phrase quiet, man!I was soundly chastised for saying on a training course that "I don't give a tinker's curse" about whatever! "You can't say that! What if someone here was a tinker?" replied the horrified trainer.
Course, you get a lot of tinkers working in the financial services sector!
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:01, closed)
In my localityIt's perfectly acceptable to call Gypsies 'Gyppos'. However, as I have recently found out, someone took offence somewhere and it's now considered a racist term. Well excuse my mid-Sussex dialect! i have a mind to sue on grounds of regional discrimination...
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:55, closed)
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