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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How would it have been...if the PC crowd was around in WWI? Would we be refering to Kaiser Wilhem II as the physically challenged monarch because of his arm?
Cause you know he was.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 17:04, 6 replies)
Charles I... was 5 feet 0 inches tall. These days they wouldn't have been allowed to chop his head off - instead they'd have had to stick an extra head on top of his original one.
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And...FDR was in a wheelchair. It is amazing that he didnt let his handicap stop him. whats even more amazing is that he took great pains to make himself appear normal. How many people are like that today?
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What's more amazingis that we live in a world where he needs to hide his handicap from his voters and people.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 17:16, closed)
Nah.We'd be referring to Kaiser Wilhelm as Billy the Flid.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 23 Nov 2007, 21:17,
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Kaiser WilheimWas also Gay as well as physically challanged- Just thought I'd let you know
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 23:40, closed)
he was?I never knew that. I guess his cover of a Frau mit Kinder went over very well
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