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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I entirely agreeMy mates constantly fall for this "political correctness gone mad" stuff.
We had a big debate not long ago about the "super mosque" planned for london. Among the things they had heard about were the fact that it was going to "dwarf st pauls" and would cost the taxpayer 100k.
Literally 30 seconds searching on the internet and i discovered that 1: It would have a larger square footage than st pauls but would be on 2 (or 3, i forget) levels, so it wouldn't "dwarf" anything. 2: the 100k was being put up by a private backer.
Most "PC gone mad" stories are like this. When you look at the facts they don't seem quite so bad.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 11:15, Reply)
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