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)
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My DadUsed to work for a civilian airworks company, based in Saudi. Worked there for over 15 years, until he suddenly rang me one day and announced he'd been sacked for misconduct.
His crime? Wearing a pair of shorts in the base bar. Now, as all of the personnel on the base were Brits or Americans, the bar was an allowable perk. Part of the package for attracting workers to do stuff that the Saudis either couldn't or wouldn't do themselves. So who would complain about one of the staff wearing a pair of shorts (it being a bloody hot country) in a staff bar?
A Saudi national, apparently, had been present and taken offence at my dad's sartorial misdemeanour. So the company had 'no option' but to set an example and send out a message to all the other staff, to not 'offend' their host countrymen. My Dad's arguement that it was bloody hot and a private bar sanctioned by the Saudis cut no ice, and within 48 hours he was back in Blighty.
Apparently management didn't question what the fuck an Arab was doing in an establishment that sells alcohol in the first place. From what I can gather, he shouldn't even have been on the base either.
Fucking jobsworths.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 22 Nov 2007, 20:26,
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.I detest the buggers, Play by their rules in their country, then their rules in our country. Grrrr
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ratman, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 23:36,
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