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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Multi-faith Christmas cardLast year, the head of marketing had a designer trying to come up with a Christmas card that wouldn't offend international customers. The design guy must have spent three weeks jizzing about only for her to knock him back each time:
HER: You can't use a tree - that's a Christian symbol.
HIM: How about a bauble?
HER: It goes on a tree, doesnt it.
HIM: Yeah, as naturally as Jesus goes on a cross.
HER: [Missing irony] Quite right.
HIM; How about a present?
HER: Not all cultures give presents at this time of year.
HIM: OK - some kids playing in the snow.
HER: The customers in Nevada won't identify with that.
HIM: True - seeing snow might traumatise them. What if I use a reindeer? Rudolf and the sleigh...
HER: Santa Claus - He's Christian.
HIM: He is?
HER: Oh yeah. He was a saint.
HIM: Wait a minute. Isn't the whole idea of sending a Christmas card Christian? It's a Christian holiday. You don't even send a Christian card to someone who would be offended by Christmas!
HER: If we only send it to some, the other's will be offended.
HIM: So you're telling me that we have to send a non-Christmas card to people who may not be Christians. If it's not about Christmas, what's the occasion?
In the end they used a tree with a star above it. Nobody complained.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:25, 5 replies)
Bloody hell FrankI could feel the will to live ebbing from my body whilst reading that, and being an accountant, I didn't have much in the first place.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:32,
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Afternoon.The company I work for has just chosen their design for this year's Crimbo card:
It's a line of brussel sprouts against a white background (chromatically white, that is, not racially), each bearing a letter making up the legend: "HAPPY HOLIDAYS!"
You know, if I didn't despise Christmas for the hollow sham it is, I might be offended by that. As it is I'm just bored.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 13:32, closed)
I've never understood this...Why the f**k would anyone be "offended" by Christmas?
I'm not "offended" by Ramadan. If my Muslim colleagues want to celebrate it then what on Earth does that have to do with me? Why should I be offended?
So.. why should people in this country worry about others being offended by Christmas references? I simply don't get it.
I'm not even a Christian myself anyway: I'm an atheist. Does that mean I should be offended by the idea of EVERY religious person referring to their respective celebrations? Of course not!
It boggles the mind.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 14:21, closed)
That's why..... they shouldn't have let a woman become head of marketing.
(oops, I did it again)
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 17:10, closed)
We dont have a Christmas party///Its a holiday party. Granted there are some Jews who celebrate Hannukah (forgive it if its mispelt), and Ramadan was celebrated in October this year.
Calling it happy holidays, and showing a wreath, lights and bells, and all Christmas items, doesnt make much sense. Call it what it is.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 2:39, closed)
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