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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This isn't about political correctness, so don't vote for it. Some of the answers reminded me of it though...A few years ago, a regular in my dad's pub beckoned my dad over and asked for some advice. The conversation went like something like this:
(I swear on my mother's life this is a true story...)
"Rich, I need some advice"
"Ok"
"I've got this new girlfriend, and she's black"
"Right..."
"Thing is, I don't know where to take her apart from here"
"Bring her here then"
"Well yeah, but we can't shag in the pub can we?"
"Take her back to yours then"
"But my dad will freak out if he sees I'm going out with a black girl"
"So go to her place then"
"I can't do that, coon's houses stink!"
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:39, Reply)
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