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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My maternal grandmother was Catholicand my maternal grandfather was nominally Anglican. When they got married, his brother said he was sick and couldn't make it. It turned out later that he wasn't going to set foot in a Catholic Church. Conclusion: there are worse things than pretending Kwanzaa is a real holiday...
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 1:01, 2 replies)
dearly beloved...When my Catholic and Protestant parents got married the first priest they spoke to refused to marry them, my grandparents on both sides were horrified, and my grandfather had to sit in the church car park because he'd recieved death threats saying that if he entered the church to give his daughter away it was bye-bye grandad. Northern Ireland, 1970s. Nice.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 9:41,
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Eh, mine just elopedGot married in England, lay low there for a bit, and it was okay. Although they were both Catholic, it was still the whole Ireland thing... I believe Grandad had been working for the British or some such, and thus Granny's family received death threats.
Indeed, bring on the Kwanzaa celebrations.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 4:55, closed)
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