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 Gollywogs from Noddymade me grow up to hate black people*
*Disclaimer: Not really
My favourite story of PC-ness gone mad is the story of the teacher in North Carolina who was disciplined for using the word "niggardly" - meaning miserly or stingey.
As David Howard once said, "I used to think it would be great if we could all be colorblind. That's naive, especially for a white person, because a white person can't afford to be colorblind."
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 21:27, 1 reply)
It also happenedin Washington DC, I believe some director of communications or whatnot used it too, and was forced to resign, and then when people realized what happened, offered it back, and he told them to stuff it.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 6:02, closed)
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