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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I heard this last yearfrom a colleague (Civil Service). Decided to look it up seeing the idea that "Brainstorming" is offensive.
I found two references from journalistic sources: One from the frequently-discredited Inquirer which refers to an Irish Civil Service Department (and the jokes just write themselves, don't they?) and another from the Hellograph which is also guilty of right-wing tubthumping with alarming regularity.
If any other organisations are actually following this idea, can we have names named so they can be properly ridiculed?
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 19:17, Reply)
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