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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This stuff pisses me right offI'm not racist (I have black friends!!! - not really but that's just circumstance) but all these forms seem to have about 20 options for variations of black or asian and usually only 2 or 3 for white.
I too usually identify myself as Celtic/Norse. As a Geordie, I live just north of Hadrians Wall, making me a Celt, another famous historical period of my locality was the Viking invasions of the local coastline. I did wonder about getting one of those DNA tests or doing a family tree to see if this was all bollocks and I'm actually German or something....
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 15:32, Reply)
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