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 a racist"The best test to see if someone is a racist is if someone starts a sentence with "I'm not racist, but..."
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:13, 4 replies)
yup.Or... "I'm not racist, some of my best friends are black... But..." as if having non-white friends somehow gives you a get-out-of-jail-free card to then say whatever the frick you want.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:18, closed)
I know!None of my friends are black though. Or Asian for that matter.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:23, closed)
Uh ohI'm a racist, then.... Do I get any points for living in Detroit?
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:25, closed)
'I'm not a racialist'That's the one to look out for, I think it's standard BNP/NF lingo.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:36, closed)
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