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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Work in a big supermarketAnd at the induction, they give us the mandatory list of things you can't call people, like mongo, midget and whatnot.
They are even kind enough to offer up a list of alternatives.
So there I am going down the list, and I get to 'blind person.' And it's on the 'Don't' list.
Instead, you are apparantly supposed to call them 'a person who is blind.'
Now I ask you, what is the point in that?
Oh yeah, I'm sure Stevie Wonder at checkout number 2 feels so much better being referred to as a person who is blind and not a blind person.
Way to strive for human rights, idiots.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 18:36, 4 replies)
You can't call someone a 'whatnot'?That's a bit strict...
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Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 19:35,
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It was actually Asda, but close.And I know, I go around calling people whatnots willy nilly and all of a sudden my jobs on the line? Changed days, I tell thee.
Bonus fact: apparantly at my friend's induction for Morissons they stood up and went "Here is a list of words you CAN'T use...*ahem*...SPASTIC...SPACKA...MIDGET...POOF..." It went on like that for quite some time.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 7:53, closed)
I'd be especially offendedif you called me a "what not willy nilly". You can't make fun of my diminutive penis like that and get away with it!
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 10:14, closed)
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