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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CoonaramaOh yeah, this caused a stink a while ago. It's not like `Coon' is a term I ever really hear used in a derogatory sense in Australia.
"Despite a 2003 legal challenge to the name by Stephen Hagan, a regional counsellor for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission[1], the name has nothing to do with the more commonly known racial slur use of the word and is instead named after its creator Edward William Coon, who patented a method for fast maturation of cheese via high temperature and humidity. The original trademark owner Kraft, and later Dairy Farmers, have vigorously defended the trademark, which was created in 1931."
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 7:28, Reply)
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