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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My brotherBless him.
My mother had a very colourful vocabulary when we were of the more tender ages. Things had nicknames. The general rule was to mix the types of swear words up.
*button pressing* *sigh* "CUNTING STEREO"
and her favourite "Fuckshitbollockscunt".
As much as she liked her French, she did not use one racial swearword. Ever. It just wasn't what she did. Which meant my brother and I had a very politically correct upbringing. We were rather shielded, which isn't half bad for kids from a naff area who went out and caused mayhem every day in the local estate.
Now, the brother, he has Aspergers, and went to the special school on the other side of town, which was a bit posher than mine... He was sent home... for racist language.
The problem? He'd abbreviated the term "packed lunch" to "packey" and didn't see the problem. In fact, his rather bright head (but one devoid of social skills at the time) actually started arguing with the teachers about his right to use it, seeing as it wasn't a bad word to him.
Eventually he was persuaded not to use it. He grew into a rather normal teen, who was reprimanded from boarding (special) school... this time for shaving "666" in a friend's head.
I love him loads. He's excellent :-D
(A less politically correct area of my mother's brain was the hilarity caused from making light of disabilities. We were taught at a rather young age how to do a "thalidomide fight" - which involves being on your knees, holding your wrists to your shoulders and attacking the opponent with cushions... oddly people seem to find this funny now rather than offensive... maybe I'm mixing with the wrong people? )
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[Arthmelow] I r done b3ta entry www.b3ta.com/questions/politicalcorrectness/post102360
[noctu] That's funny, I always called my packed lunch a darkie darkie nig nog.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:39, 1 reply)
Thalidomide fightHaaaaaaaaaa
Oh god. That made me laugh so much.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 20:33, closed)
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