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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BahI decided to run for 11th grade class president way back in the day. One of my campaign posters had a picture of saltine crackers and proclaimed, "Don't be a cracker, vote for me!".
Cut to a week later, the vice principal called me into her office, and brandished the sign. Suddenly I realized that "cracker" is an offensive term for white people in the American south, where I live, albeit antiquated. I had to take down all the posters.
What makes this so egregious, howevs, is that the baseball team of my hometown was known a few decades ago as the "crackers". Double standard much?
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 19:34, Reply)
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