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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the golden compasswhy would you bother to make a film based on a book critiquing religion and then remove all of the references to god in it?
durrr
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 17:09, 2 replies)
becausebig film studios prefer to be able to sell their films to all markets to maximise profit
what is amusing is the false pretense that people will buy the books under having seen the film. think of all the outraged religious types!
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 21:03, closed)
And why change the title?And what's with the changeing of the title, it's not even a compass, it's an aleithiometer!
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 11:36, closed)
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