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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Harmless Gloucester racismThis story took place during the floods, when we were without a water supply. A friend of mine was working at some kind of warehouse, lugging boxes - anyway, talk got onto the issue of the bowsers which supplied us with water, and how some of them had been stolen. One worker says "Well, you know who's stealin' 'em, don't you? It's them pakis". There's a brief moment as everyone tries to fill in the logical steps in their mind. "Obvious, ennit? They wash their feet like five times a day. I bet if you go down to one of them mosques it'll be full of bowsers".
The worst thing, my friend says, was the fact that everyone there seemed to think this made perfect sense and had to be right.
Ah, the West Country...
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Pretender, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 23:34,
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