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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Non-racial 'attack' ends in marriage and unemployment.A few years ago my best friend (who I will call 'Donald', even though his name is Simon) got an office job in England after returning from a year in Japan. Upon starting work, he found that the next desk belonged to a cute Japanese girl named Naoko. He quite liked this girl, and after a few days of indecision, finally decided to try and impress her with a little bit of Japanese.
"Konichiwa," he said. "Hajimemashita, Donald des." This means: "Hello. Pleased to meet you. I'm Donald."
Naoko was clearly quite taken by this, and things looked good. That was until he was called to his manager's office later that day and summarily fired for a 'racial attack'. It seemed one of the other workers in the office had assumed he was taking the piss and made a formal complaint. As Donald was on his three month probationary evaluation period, he could be fired in this way with no negative effect on the company, and the company was not interested in the pitiful defense attempts of a racist.
Quite pissed off, Donald packed up his things and left, pausing to say goodbye (but NOT sayonara) to Naoko.
Eight months later they got married and are still together, all happy, the bastards. Donald also got a much better job almost immediately, for more pay and less work. I don't think anybody at that office ever mentioned this to Naoko, probably worried the same would happen to them.
Still, not a bad outcome to a 'racial attack', eh?
Apologies for my considerable length, and for the fact you've been staring at it for the last minute or so.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 13:48, 2 replies)
What's the bet....... that the complainant was a jealous type that fancied her, or else just didn't want Donald in the job for some office-politics reason?
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wangmaster2000, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 14:47,
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Donald and I......have discussed that. We came to that conclusion, but he never found out who had complained, and neither did Naoko. So, theoretically, it could have been a deaf, blind, Albanian gypsy Jew lesbian single mother with one leg for all we know.
Whatever the reason for the complaint, though, it was the PC hammer that was used to strike him flat and brand him a racist. Political correctness is like anything else - it's fine until you abuse it.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 15:56, closed)
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