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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HullfireWhen I worked on Hullfire, the Hull student paper, we had a night at the union featuring a couple of Chris Evans' sidekicks. Can't remember who they are - but a lot of very beery types thought that this was wonderful. At some stage in the evening, the Evans-alikes invited some girl to come on stage and show her tits - which, being drunk, she did.
This caused a small amount of trouble around the Union - complaints were made to the entertainments officer, for example - and we reported this trouble in the paper. There was no photo, and no names: we merely mentioned that the Union had had complaints about what had happened on stage. The Totty Commi... sorry, Women's Committee took exception to this. To our report, that is. It was apparently sexist to report such events.
They therefore intercepted our entire print-run - something like 12000 copies, IIRC, and placed masking tape over the offending story in every single one. It took them days.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:47,
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Student politicsGotta love it, all of the bureaucracy and even more pointless...
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 15:50, closed)
as a current hull fire reader i am shocked and appalled..exposing students to chris evens?
you bastard!
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willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 17:13,
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25 years laterand we're still waiting for the truth about Sarah Green and the snooker table. Publish and be damned!
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:30, closed)
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