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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oh! andA lady was asking for some donations to a cancer charity in the city a few years ago. As I looked around in my wallet from some change, she asked sympathetically, "Are things difficult at home at the moment?"
What the hell? Was she some sort of crappy psychic therapist?
I stared, confused.
"Back... home?"
"Yes. In China. It must be hard right now, with the SARS virus and everything."
Bless her heart.
"Oh, no, I live here," I said.
"Then your poor relatives..."
"I'm from Korea."
She stared at me like a deer in the headlights. She'd reached a dead end.
"Have a good day!" I said, and skipped off.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 8:31, 2 replies)
Blimey, that's so patronising!Did you give her any money, or did you snap your wallet shut and stare intently at her for a few seconds before wishing her a good day?
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 8:36, closed)
Maybeyou should have led the silly cow on and got her to give YOU some money to send to your imaginary Chinese relatives.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 10:13,
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