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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Sweeties.You cant call them "Midget Gums" anymore,
now they're "Lovely people who are smaller than the average person but deserve the same respect and admiration...gums".
You dont wanna know what happened to Blackjacks
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 18:09, 3 replies)
Shouldn't it be'Restricted Growth' gums? Apparently that's the term now. but it just makes people who are dwarves or midgets sound like restricted growths. Kinda like fungi.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 18:11, closed)
chewyI heard 'Fruit Salads' were being rebranded too.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 18:18,
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I thought......they were just hilariously funny people you and your mates draw straws for, to see who fucks one on a Saturday night in Nana Plaza.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 19:43,
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