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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HuzzahA wonderful post. I've just started working in a far more PC environment than I'm used to. As a working class labour voting lesbian from the Black Country I am myself a "minority" and also grew up around sufficent amount of kids of Asian/Afro-Carribean/Yam Yam descent to not be constantly on the lookout for things that might offend.
I was doing an event the other night when two of the women I worked with had a tut that there were ham sandwiches, as it would "offend Jews and Muslims". I was gobsmacked. I've yet to meet a Jew or Muslim who gets offended by ham in their presence, unlike the said vegetarian ladies.
As middle class straight white Guardian readers they are terrified they might offend someone, but have lived for so long in their white middle class Guardian reading enclaves that they're not quite sure how they might end up doing it. I still can't get my head around it.
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 2:33, Reply)
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