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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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...
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 10:04, Reply)
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