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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Schoolyard racistMy last boss got called into his daughter's school one afternoon because she was due to be disciplined for a 'racially-aggravated' insult.
Turns out she'd been overheard calling her (white) friend a "pooh".
She's 9.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 14:36, 2 replies)
buggerDoes this mean I've got another four years of my youngest (5) calling me a great big fat pooh at every opertunity. Last week he even rang me up to tell me so.
I wouldn't be surprised if he came on here and said it.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 14:53,
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Could be...Of course, if you get fed up with it, you could always report him for racism.
:)
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 14:28, closed)
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