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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Try living in Switzerland...I'd heard that in some respects, Switzerland is a bit, well, backward. Y'know, compulsory church tax, laws for no working on Sunday without special permission, etc. When we got here we found that a lot of it is true to an extent and being a bit behind the times, there's not too much PC about.
Then we found out that a lot of that is down to the biggest party here being the equivalent of the BNP with computer games on their site where you can shoot EU ministers and stop (non-white)foreigners from getting passports...
It's like Germany, 1936...
Now, a lot of my Swiss friends here disown this lot and go to great pains to say that their only supporters are inbred farmers in secluded valleys, but when our boss told one of the Ph.Ds (whose studying quantum mechanical simulations, no less) to clean the fridge out because it's women's work he was honestly surprised when she objected.
So instead of looking at his opinion again, he got one of the secretaries to do it...
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 24 Nov 2007, 18:24,
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Swiss OdditiesYep, just take a look when wimmin got the vote in Switzerland- 1971 FFS. Oh and over a third of the all-male electorate voted that they shouldn't get it too.
My other half nearly got a job there and I was not remotely sad when it didn't come through.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 18:29, closed)
I can sign under every word of that.My girlfriend went to university in Switzerland and she says the racism is shocking; proper 1960s-in-Harlem stuff. That said, to call Swiss people a bunch of racist bastards is surely a bit of a paradox. Even though it's true. Which surely makes it a bit more of a paradox.
Oops, there goes the vortex.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 0:18, closed)
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