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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ive produced e-learning for the police and the bbclike the opening post, you know that if you choose the wrong characters and dont "reflect diversity" it will result in costly changes. so to play it safe and reduce risk, in most titles ive ever released they have about 75% ethnic characters. Black welsh-speaking females central characters, endless background pics of sikh coppers, you know they will fly and the same rules that force you to put them in also prevent anyone from complaining about them or that the ethnicity of the majority of users are totally under represented. Always go black or asian, why take the risk?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:32,
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could you...Start making use of some of the most minority of minorities within the UK please?
I'm thinking, some aborigine, perhaps native american figures there... You could slip in a Mongolian crowd scene. Then post links.
Thanks.
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 2:21, closed)
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