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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The mother of one of my best friends has Scoliolis.Nowhere near as bad as your mum, but she is in a lot of pain, and it's getting worse all the time. She's also a fiercely intelligent academic, who lectures in physics. All of her students and colleagues respect her no end.
But when shopping (I used to go to the supermarket with them frequently as we shared lifts into town), she would get stared at, people spoke SLOWLY AND LOUDLY to her, thinking she was retarded, and get the local chavs who hang out at Tescos shouting things ("hag", "cripple", "munter", "freak") at her because they think it's funny. Twats.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:13, Reply)
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