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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I'm Australian and adopted from KoreaThis calls for much lolz. I love watching people get all awkward when I tell them I'm adopted, or panic when they think they've said something racist towards Asians.
The other day at work, I served a couple who were speaking Chinese. As they walked away, talking rapidfire in a language that I find terribly difficult to understand, my coworker pondered, "I wonder what they're saying?"
"I don't know," I replied, wishing I could understand Chinese.
He did a double take. His eyes darted around in panic as he stuttered, "Oh, no, i mean, I wasn't asking you...cuz... cuz you're Asian.. and they were speaking in an Asian language.. like, I know you're Australian, and... and... yeah... I didn't mean anything cuz you're Asian, and, and, yeah."
I stared at him for a good ten seconds. He was visibly sweating.
"It's okay, dude," I said, and served the next customer.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 8:24, Reply)
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