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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Please listen to this.youtube.com/watch?v=1IYx4Bc6_eE
That is all.
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thiswasmyclone, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 2:22,
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HmmmNever thought about it like that, as obvious as it is. Nice one.
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enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 6:35,
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Stewart Lee is awesome.Good post. *click*
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 10:07, closed)
Yes yes yesI understand what he's saying, but it's clear that for many people in the UK it feels that the pendulum has started to swing too far the other way, hence the reprehensible rise of the far right BNP and UKIP parties. And you know what? These people hate PC because they're scared. They're scared because all they have to go on is the scaremongering British press. We don't need more PC in this country, we need simple down to earth education.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 15:19, closed)
too far?He's right of course, but PC should be used to ensure people aren't denigrated for whatever reason (colour, religion, sexuality etc.) - instead it's used as an argument in itself, and that's just as bad. Positive discrimination is still discrimination.
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Fathter Puddytat Kill Kill dat widdle boid is mine on, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 16:56,
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