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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Generation gapPeople of an older generation it seems were brought up in a society where casual rascism was rife, and to my mind even though they now know that this was wrong they can't quite exorsize they're feelings completely.eg
1. A freind of mine was looking for a cleaner and ask his middle aged neighbour if they could recommend one. "I can indeed" he said "I would recomend my cleaner, she's Iraqi, but she's alright"
Alright how exactly?
She did'nt lay an improvised bomb by your driveway? She didn't decapitate your beloved cat Mr. Killmouski and post the video on the internet demanding that the RSPCA release Barry "scurge of the west" Gerbil immediately?
2. My friend was talking to her little old Welsh granny who, in her defence was rather cut off from the world in the depths of the Welsh mountains. Anyway, a black chap came on the television and Granny leaned over (pfft) and asked if everybody knew that "they" were allowed to buy houses now!
Unbelieveable.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 10:57,
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Old peopleHa ha my 90yr old nan is always saying stuff like that.
At Sunday Lunch the other week she suddenly announced, without being prompted, that she "had read in the paper that immigrants are taking OUR jobs" and that this was the reason that my sister was unemployed.
The reason my sister is unemployed is that she's a lazy arse!
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 11:11, closed)
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