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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Thought showertwiceydrinkey has already posted this story first:
b3ta.com/questions/politicalcorrectness/post101195
Namely that people have been told not to use the term 'brainstorm' because it my be offensive to epileptics. While this was originally a made up story, it has filtered through as truth (a bit like when comedians joked decades ago about the idea of privatising water (H2O Co was the gag, can't remember the comedian). Five years later the govt did).
Anyway, so on being told that brainstorm was potentially offensive by our touchy-feeley and right on 'learning & development' resource, we were then told to use the substitute term "Thought Shower".
"Isn't that potentially offensive to the incontinent?" I said.*
*Three days later when I finally thought of it.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 11:03, Reply)
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