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)
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do you ever wonderWHY you don't see many people in wheelchairs travelling on the underground? Accessibility for the underground is still a pretty new thing and although a lot of those station are now technically possible for a person in a wheelchair to get in and out of... it's a long way from straightforward.
As soon as a person in a wheelchair can get from A to B on the tube without having to pre-book their journey, arrange for assistance, allow an extra hour's travel time, and go via C, D and E as well... then you might see a few more. Until then, it's so much easier to just get a fucking taxi - costs a bit more but at least you retain your dignity and get where you're going same-day.
As for the "accessible toilet" business, part of that whole palaver was because of it so often being the baby-change room as well.
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