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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Pelican CrossingWhen I was a kid I remember being really excited about the Harry Enfield show.
One day we were walking home from school and imitating the sketches... As we were crossing a pelican crossing (this is the UK) I was doing some impression of "Loooadsamoney!!" or something like... after we crossed this "afro-englishman" kid (Im a pasty white computer geek) then acosted me and straight up wanted a fight.
To this day I do not know why as I'd never seen him before in my life and I never saw him again AFAIK. I wasnt taking the piss, just messing around with my mates.
I must have only been 13 at the time and it scared the life out of me. I think the confused look on my face defused the situation. The only explanation is he thought I was taking the piss out of him straight to his face as he was crossing in the other direction and had run back across the road to confront me.
I can only presume that he must have had a pretty hard time in his life to kick off like that.
Not sure how this lies with the question subject, I just had to get that off my chest.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 1:10, Reply)
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