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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back when i was at schoolI did an evening class for special needs kids on a Friday. It was all races, playing with balls, dancing that kind of thing.
In the summer we did a week long course and twice a week we would go from the leisure centre where the course was held to a nearby school to use their pool.
Now this meant walking alongside a fairly busy road. Many of the kids had behavioural problems, many were Down's or autistic. They'd quite happily run into traffic if the mood took them, or one kid spooked another or something. Simple problem to fix you'd think? Just hold the kid by the hand and then you can make sure they don't go anywhere near the road. No. Because some muppet at the council had decided that this constituted 'innapropriate touching' of the children. So instead we had to use stern words and cross our fingers. It's a small miracle no-one got hurt
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 18:11, 2 replies)
Playing with balls?Ooh er...
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 11:08, closed)
...put them on leads?
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Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 16:53,
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