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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As someone...who works for a very large transit agency in the States, I can tell you that even though our bus fleet is 100% wheelchair accessable, and we have what is called Access-A-Ride, which is door to door service for those who have qualified all for the same fare as the regular bus and subway $2. We have about 65 Accessable stations. When we in the states passed the laws to give those who are "mobility impaired", they pretty much made any new building built from that point forward accessable. Now the tricky part. It costs lots of money to make a station accessable. Some subway stations are going to be nearly impossible to make accessable, due to alignment of the station. If the agency was to have made every station accessable, it would have cost over $85 BILLION in 1990 US Dollars. This would have bankrupted the Agency, and the state of NY. So the Feds cut a deal, 100 stations to be made accessable by the year 2020. Of course we are going to try and make as many as we can accessable after that, but some will be damn near impossible.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 1:04, Reply)
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