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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National PrideAparently I wasn't allowed to have a mini Irish flag on my desk when working in a large government building. Because people might be offended... but it was perfectly acceptable for the South Africans, Kiwis and Aussies all to have flags, rugby balls.etc sitting on their monitors.
Something to do with the last 700 years of anglo-irish unpleasantness - and the fact that the IRA spent the last 30 years trying to blow up the very building we worked in. Management didn't appreciate me putting up my 'Guy Fawkes was right!' poster either....
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HSDriver was probably still at work on, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 6:13,
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Skull and crossbonesApparently we aren't allowed national flags (Scotland, England etc), but the union flag is OK. So I now have a pirate flag instead.
- Apparently consistently offensive to all!
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 8:27, closed)
I'm mildly offendedthat an Irishman thinks he's got something to be proud of ;D
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 21:04, closed)
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