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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PC isn't all bad, you know.I work in a small office with two other people. Both are ill-informed racists, sexists and general Sun readers with only enough firing in their frontal lobes to grasp that every Muslim across the globe was, at any given time, waiting feverishly to pounce on them personally, explode themselves, rape their women and steal their job. Then explode again and give the money to the Jews.
This is supplemented by a third moron who likes to wander in from his own office to tell us about either a) a news story in which somebody white has been the victim of crime at the hands of somebody who isn't, or b) about how sensible and reasonable he finds the manifesto of the BNP.
One of these men (not the third) is my immediate boss. All three are fans of the band Screwdriver (Wikipedia it). One is obsessed - and I use that word in a very real, literal sense - with launching a nuclear attack on China, earnestly believing this will create more jobs in the UK and bring down the price of petrol.
I've complained about this to the General Manager and was told to stop whinging, as this was a factory environment and was to be expected. Of course, they pretend this isn't the case to the public. There's an earlier post on here from me about our Christmas cards which shows the two-facedness of it all.
I wouldn't mind PC to go mad in my area for a day or two.
Sorry for length/rant/rambling/pumps.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 10:18, Reply)
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