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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some terms have a loaded meaning in one countrywhile being a harmless contraction in another. when i came from australia and first started working in london after watching a cricket match on the weekend, I yelled across the office to a south african work mate: "Did you see us beat the Pakis on the weekend?"
I got put in front of a disciplinery board and tried to explain that "paki" had no more negative association than "aussies" or "windies" in australia and was used in cricket ads on the telly. But each time I used the word I could see them cringe like i'd flung a turd on their desks. I kept my job but it was a quick lesson.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:15,
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ouchthat'd be a real nasty way to lose a job :(
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rhebus ac201fd270c3b96beab24f2829780ab2, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:57,
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dubyadid that on a tv interview once, he was in a question/answer session with journalists and he said, 'yeah, the paki's are giving us a lot of help in the war or terror' or something like that. the guardianistas over here were up in arms.
Incidentally, is it true that the use of the word 'oriental' in the US is offensive?
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 20:04, closed)
Wellthey certainly like to avoid "black".
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 18:07, closed)
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