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'm not normally anti-PC...after all, its effect has been that the majority of people in this country now know it's wrong to call black people niggers, and disabled people can get jobs, stuff like that. You're complaining about having to call a blackboard a chalkboard? Boo fucking hoo, grow up.
HOWEVER I was a bit shocked a few months ago at work when I found out that a colleague had been taken aside by a manager and dressed down for taking the mickey out of a ginger girl in his team. She hadn't complained (because she's got a sense of humour and knew he wasn't trying to upset her) but the comment had been overheard by someone from a different team who'd been passing and had taken offence on her behalf, being a strawberry blonde himself. What really tops it is that the bloke who complained was this big old metaller in his mid-twenties, the sort of person who should have been exposed to enough piss-taking in his life to know what's on and what isn't.
You'd think he wouldn't be too sensitive about the ginge issue - in his case it paled into comparison to his shitty goatee and the bandana, skater jeans and leather accessories he would wear on casual dress days...it's 2007 ffs, and he's a grown man. Ooops, off topic :)
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yes yes yes man oi mate, someone's writtten 'bum' on your neck, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 20:10,
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blackboard"You're complaining about having to call a blackboard a chalkboard?"
Well, yeah - that is possibly the best example of PC gone mad. You're allowed to call a black person black as a descriptive identifying term but you can't call a board which is black a blackboard?! It's not like the colour has ceased to exist or something - there are still many black things and if you're not using it as a negative connotation then what could the problem possibly be?
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 14:40, closed)
gingersbut giongers are a minority and should be protected! surely if you can be in trouble for taking the mick out of someone for their skin colour, sexual orientation sex etc why should hair coour be different, after all gingerness is part of their racial heredity, just like dark skin. equality for the gingers!!!!!!
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 16:45, closed)
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