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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It's also worth poiinting out...... That if someone uses the word "disabled" around her she has no problem at all... after all, she is not as able as other people...
Lass behind a till referred to her in a shop as a "disabled lady" and the lass's manager harshly repremanded her infront of my mother saying "It's not right to refer to this poor lady as disabled, you must refer to her as "mobility-challenged""
My mum nearly shat herself laughing and told the manager not to be so bloody stupid, and then added as an after-thought "Referring to me as a "poor lady" and discussing me as though I wasn't here is by FAR the most insensitive and insulting thing that has happened to me all year: You're clearly in no position to lecture others in etiquette"
The grin on the till-lasses' face as my mum winked up at her was priceless.
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Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Fri 23 Nov 2007, 13:06,
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