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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On the subject of holidaysthe word itself is actually a contraction of "holy days". Basically the whole idea was that on certain holy-days you would take time off work and go to mass and such like, sort of like a couple of extra sundays thrown in to the year for various saints.
On the subject of hallow'een (note the apostrophy EDIT: in the wrong place but what the hell) november the 1st is all saints day (at least in the Catholic church. Don't know about any others). Saints can be referred to as hallows-something to do with them being holy. October the 31st is the evening before all saints/hallows day and can be referred to as all hallows eve, in the same way as december the 24th is Christmas eve. This is contracted into hallow'een, although most people leave out the apostrophy.
So "The Church" as you call it isn't really hijacking holidays as it pretty much invented them. However, for most people they aren't religious at all any more, Christmas being the prime example. And you didn't have to respond to the invitation to Candlemass. Just throw the flyer in the bin if you don't want to go.
And I agree with you about the "Rainbow Festival". I'm guessing that it is rainbows because ghosts might scare small children. Rubbish, all the kids I know love all the spooky and gory stuff!
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 12:49, Reply)
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