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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Well then, how 'bout this one?www.blackpeopleloveus.com/
(Yeah, I know it's just a link, but well worth a look, especially at the "Your Letters" section.)
Is that roof high enough... or does it need to be raised?!
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sun 25 Nov 2007, 7:43,
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just been looking at the site...That's damned hillarious. I'm surprised that there are so few ranting messages: I'd have expected the irony to pass many more people by...
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Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Sun 25 Nov 2007, 11:46,
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Great WebsiteSomeone should send it to Ken Livingstone.
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Genius...I used to have two lesbian friends, but they're not lesbians anymore and thus my minority friend quotas are below government required levels again. *sigh* it's back to the detention centre for me.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 10:58,
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Fucking funnyThat's fucking hilarious. Just burst out laughing in the middle of my office. not supposed to be having fun in offices, all very serious.
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best thing about that pageis that on the letters page there's a guy saying (and here I paraphrase) "I used to work in a comic book store, and I can tell you that contrary to popular belief, black people don't just read comics about other black people, they read comics about white superheros too!"
amazing
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 11:36,
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i seem to remember seeing this a while backi think it was in the newlsetter, many moons ago... i laughed as much that time as i did this one.
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