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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Polish bloke, social scientist, found himself in a small island group...... off the coast of Papua New Guinea back in 1914. Technically he was an enemy alien (that neck of the woods was under British control, Poland was controlled by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on opposite sides in the Great War). But the Brits were happy to let him wander around doing his fieldwork. After the war he got a job at the LSE and produced a series of books in the 1920s, the most celebrated of which was The Sexual Life Of Savages - a key text for Social Anthropology departments up and down the land well into the 1980s (and probably still).
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