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)
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Happy holidays...I really bloody object to that phrase! Grrrr. As does my Jewish friend, who happens to be Merkin - as you can probably imagine, a (large) Merkin Jew living in a fairly insular north east backwater former mining town is a recipe for some distictly hostile behaviour from the local chavs (or charvas as they are known here ). She celebrates Christmas as much as she celebrates Hannukah or any other Jewish festival. Christ, you should see her at the pantomime...
Good grief, if you can't celebrate a recognised festival within a recognised cultural context for fear of offending a minority, what hope is there?
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