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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The Alabama threeIn Alabama (god bless em) they'd worked out a way of editing swearing from their tvs, by linking into the subtitles which accompany most programs.
Everytime a subtitle trained computer prog (or something, sketchy on the details meh) picked up (e.g.) 'motherfucker' it overdubbed the voice to say mother funster, etc.
All was going swimmingly, but they had had a few problems, the upstanding pillar of the church conceeded, especially with the name of one of their best loved mockeneys, which came out as Jerk van Gay.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 16:20, Reply)
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