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Freddy 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)

(unknown, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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My dad
Is a traditional racist of the old school, always ready with an offensive generalisation. But even he knows it's no longer acceptable to use racist terms in public. So he calls anyone non-white "an ethnic". As in: "There was an ethnic in the supermarket today buying bananas." He thinks this is politically correct.
(frankspencer, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:05, 5 replies)
My dad
is of the same generation. But he doesn't bother with attempting to be PC, he just whispers so no one will hear and take offence.

Trouble is, he's pretty deaf these days...
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:16, closed)
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My girlfriend is an ethnic. My nickname for her is "National Geographic".
(I helped save b3ta! browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:17, closed)
It took ages...
...to convince my grandfather that the phrase "works like a nigger" might be unwise to use in public, even if he did mean it as a term of approval for the dilligence of his African brethren. Actually, I don't think we succeeded.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:18, closed)
We call
the Co-op in Cambridge the UN, due to its diverse and resourceful employment of staff.
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:24, closed)
i've previosly mentioned that i have worked in a toy store
and we sold white baby born dolls and black baby born dolls. the Black ones rang up on the till as "Ethnic". only i noticed this, and secretly hoped that the shop wouyd get sued, just cos the owner was a pig man.
(electrogirl no one thinks about the implications of a clown su, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 14:30, closed)

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