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)
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alsoit's all in the context. if someone calls you a post-it-note but they mean it derogatively, it becomes offensive.
lots of pakistani lads watch the cricket wearing t-shirts that say "proud to be a paki". i think that's quite a nice way of gently mocking the racism.
on the other hand, it's not nice that they've turned parts of halifax into no-go areas for white people. i've been spat at and called a white whore on more than one occasion.
i just don't get why it matters a flying fuck to anyone what colour someone else is. and i don't get why everyone else in the world can't see it that way too. now here endeth the first lesson...
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rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 17:19,
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