Political Correctness Gone Mad
Freddy 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)
Freddy 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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Oh. we know...
We know perfectly well what spazz means. We say, "Don't spazz out" all the time--"He's a spazz", Spazzy retard" "Don't have a spazz" Look, it's Spazzman" "Spazzoid" etc. We never use the the word spastic for palsy or crippled, that's a gimp. A spazz is mentally challenged and there are plenty in wheelchairs. Naming a wheelchair model "Spazz' is such as much of a gaffe here as it is there. Those clowns are pulling your leg.
( , Thu 22 Nov 2007, 21:49, Reply)
We know perfectly well what spazz means. We say, "Don't spazz out" all the time--"He's a spazz", Spazzy retard" "Don't have a spazz" Look, it's Spazzman" "Spazzoid" etc. We never use the the word spastic for palsy or crippled, that's a gimp. A spazz is mentally challenged and there are plenty in wheelchairs. Naming a wheelchair model "Spazz' is such as much of a gaffe here as it is there. Those clowns are pulling your leg.
( , Thu 22 Nov 2007, 21:49, Reply)
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