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)
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Buuhhhrrr....I did an ecommerce site for a company that sells welding gear. Someone pointed out that the site wasn't optimised for the blind.
Seriously, how many blind welders do you know?
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Biggus Dickus , it was like that when I found it, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 8:32,
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Could be a blind purchasing clerkat a welding company.
(serious, not joking)
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Sat 24 Nov 2007, 12:12,
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