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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Political Correctness hasn't even started to go mad in SpainHere in Spain, the little children don't get Christmas presents from Santa but from the Three Kings, who turn up on January 6th. One of the kings (Balthazar) is thought to have been black.
Since there were hardly any black people in Spain until very recent times, in the King's Day processions Balthazar has always been played by a white man painted up like Al Jolson; big red lips, the works.
Immigration is increasing in Spain, and I asked a friend recently if the department stores and offices that organise the Three Kings events have started recruiting actual black people to play the Balthazars.
"Some places did try that," he said, "but it didn't really work. The guys just didn't look black enough."
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somegreybloke, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 9:48,
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