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 for Holistic balanceDo you think there are poor working class coloured kids in Kingston, Jamaica who dress in Gap clothes and talk with a bad Surrey accent to balance out all those middle class white Kids in Surrey who dress up "in da hoodiez" and talk with a bad Kingston Town accent. ?
I like to think so.
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RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 18:32,
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BizzaroIts kind of like that comic book "Bizzaro World" where there was a bad Superman and children were praised for dropping trash wherever they felt like it.
Basically it was an opposite universe.
Brilliant observantion. People like that are generally referred to as Whiggers.
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Citadel Because the world needs less morons, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 20:44,
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Teddy BoysWere mostly working-class, and their 'uniform' was based on the clothes of an Edwardian dandy (hence the name), so that sort of thing has actually happened.
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whiggersyou cant say that, they are pigmentally and geneologically challenged members of the ethnically diverse community
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