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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Just rememberingWhen I was kid growing up in the 70s and 80s. There were no kids with ADD - there were slow kids, but guess what they got a little extra attention from the teacher and worked a little harder. Problem is, everytime something is not right, someone has to assign a condition to it.
sucks.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 17:12, 2 replies)
Quite.ADD has become a convenient label for what used to be known as 'F*ck-Witted Parents'.
(Those parents whose kids do have ADD should indeed feel upset - at the hijacking and trivialisation of their kids' genuine condition by all the FWP's.)
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 17:28, closed)
Its the old Type I versus Type II error debateThere were also plenty of kids in the 80s who didn't recieve the extra support, who were considered lazy and stupid, and who ended up leaving school with no qualifications and their self-esteem in shreds, before going on to problems at work and financial difficulties as adults, all because no-one recognised a neurological difficulty that can be overcome with some understanding, hard work, and yes, maybe some medication.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 0:25, closed)
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