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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Dear PC brigade :- guess what. Your helping isn't helping.We had a kid at school, let's call him Tarquin, who was a spa... I mean, he was 'physically challenged', to wit, he had a withered right arm which he used to carry folded across his waist.
Today, he would be protected from playground abuse by the PC brigade, and would have grown up in political bubblewrap, being politely and embarrassedly skirted around.
Basically, nobody would have been allowed to call him a spacker because of his right hand, and therefore nobody - including Tarquin himself - would have ever found out just how tasty he was with his left hand.
And he was. Oh yes. You only ever called Tarquin a spacker just the once.
See how it works now?
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 17:00, Reply)
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