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 way I see it......the law is like that because, in the UK, if you splash your brains over the road, the NHS will try to put yourself back together. So it is "we'll treat you without presenting you with a bill, but in exchange we'd like you to take a few simple safety precautions".
I much prefer that to a "do what you like, fuck you if you hurt yourself and have no money" approach.
The other way of looking at it is driving/riding is not a universal right, so it's fine for the government to demand things of you; such as passing a test, maintaining your vehicle, and indeed wearing helmets or seatbelts. And only idiots don't wear helmets on a motorcycle.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 19:24, Reply)
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