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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A teacher I knowcaught three 12 year old girls cheating on a test. She gave them a telling off, failed them on the exam, and phoned their parents and sent them to the principal.
All three girls were black (as is the majority of the population of the area) and the teacher is white and because of this she is treated like a bit of an outsider. One of the girls and her parents made a complaint of racism, pointing out that no white students had been caught cheating in the class that year. It went clear to a hearing with the School District before anyone bothered to listen that not only were there no white students in the class, but my friend's husband (and therefore four children) are black.
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gracielou, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 0:18,
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