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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PC Conspiracy TheoryIf anyone wants proof that builders are secretly funding the whole 'politically correct' movement - consider recent building projects and all the extra cash spent on pointless 'features' that a supposedly there to cater for people blind or wheelchair bound people.
Take Hastings Railway Station - opened two years ago... above the ticket office is the traincrew depot for Drivers and Guards. A lift has been installed from the ground to 1st floor. All the light switches are 2ft off the floor and all the doors have signage in braille. How many blind, train drivers in wheelchairs can there be?
Maybe a little common sense needs to be used in certain circumstances!
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HSDriver was probably still at work on, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 9:31,
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The problem isthat the blind, disabled cleaner would complain!
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 9:34,
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using common senseis unfair to people that don't have any.
gives you an unfair advantage
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 9:35,
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Certainly explains alot :)*places leaf on track*
*delays*
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 9:36,
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Building RegsIt's Part M of the Building Regulations - every public building has to be accessible to disabled people, and there are no exceptions.
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Umm, they have to do that nowadays...... it's the law.
The Disabilities Discrimination Act (DDA), I believe...
If you make the disabled feel like their experience of using a building is any different to an able-bodied person's then you can be held liable - I think it's a criminal rather than civil liability as well which sharpens the mind
Of course, the fact that the Act itself is discriminatory seems to have slipped everyone by...
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Lightswitches.If they're too close to the ground, what about those with bad backs? Aren't they being discriminated against? :D
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