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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...and Political INcorrectness!Having said all that I said in my post below, I discovered the other day that our new computer system, in the section where you can specify a patient's religion, offers the option "Moonie".
Mainly due to a colleague asking me what a Moonie was, I looked it up and found this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonies
Basically, Moonie is or can be an offensive term; to some people it's as offensive as nigger!
I've let my manager know, we're going to get it changed apparently =)
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 8:35, Reply)
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