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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Malteezers and ChickenI was working in a secondary school the other day, trying to teach some 15/16 year olds to play Samba Reggae. They were having particular difficulty with the bossa nova clave. The students were getting frustrated, and went off on a tangent, telling me that their whole year group have been banned from saying the words "Malteezer" and "Chicken" - I later discovered that this was something to do with mixed race people - brown on the outside and white on the inside and vice versa... To my delight, I realised that these two words together fitted perfectly with the bossa nova a clave and got the whole group chanting Mal_ _tee_ _zer_ _ _chi_ _cken, thus enabling the group to learn to play in time. Huzzah!
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 15:33, Reply)
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