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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Dad's co-worker...My dad, whom I have mentioned once or twice before, worked for the NYC Dept. of Sanitation. He had a co-woker in his "section/ district" named Seymor Miles. Now Mr. Miles is black. Made it known he is black. Mr. Miles was an alcoholic, a drug addict (not pot, but coke, and dad suspects, crack and also heroin). Everytime Mr. Miles didnt do his job, or screwed up (which was weekly), his first response: "i'll sue you, the dept., and the city, cause you're doing it because I'm black".
This routine went on for several years. Until one day, Mr. Miles gets sacked. Why? Not cause he was black. Oh No. But because he was so stupid in filling out the renewal for his drivers license, that he reversed the order of his names. So his DL read Mr. Miles Seymor, not Mr. Seymor Miles. In effect he had a fake ID, and that no matter what color you are - is grounds for dismissal.
So despite some idiots out there playing the race card - it does backfire on occassion when people are stupid.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 6:16, Reply)
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