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've just seen it mentioned further down the page......but asking for sexual orientation/race/creed on job application forms is always accompanied by words to the effect of "so that we can ensure we have a good mix".
Does that mean that they recruit to quotas?
"Sorry sir, you were the best candidate but you're Indian and we were looking for Jamaicans today..."
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:43, 1 reply)
The JoysAs far as I know here in Ireland it is illegal to even ask that on an application form.
Also the equal status act also applies to positive racism (Ie, even though you are less qualified I am hiring you because you are x and the government said we need more xs)
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 13:50, closed)
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