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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Who says what now?I work for the NHS, which is a veritable hotbed of political correctness.
A couple of things I can think of straight away:
We're not allowed to use the term "brainstorming" any more, because apparently brainstorms are what epileptics have. So now we have blue sky thinking.
Also, our "wonderful" new computer system has (as you've probably read in the news) a few problems and bugs. Occasionally something stops working and we have to tell staff a new (invariably longer) way of doing things.
This used to be called a "workaround".
However, apparently this creates the impression that there's a problem which we're trying to work around (funny that, since this is actually what's happened).
Anyway, we're not allowed to call them workarounds anymore - they're alternate process identifiers.
O_o
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 8:31, 3 replies)
Odd that!I work with that very same computer system... we still call them workarounds.
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jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 23 Nov 2007, 19:17,
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NCRS ?Isnt that "spin" more than PCGM ?
I think NCRS has 5 identifiers for a patients sex - WTF
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 10:09, closed)
Piston, it was Accenture that didn't like the term workaround.And kitescreech, I'm not sure what your acronyms stand for, but there are indeed 5 identifiers for a patient's sex:
Male
Female
Both
Not Known
Not Specified
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 16:05, closed)
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