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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What was I supposed to sayI had a job one summer teaching English to foreign kids in Bournemouth. There was one black teacher at the school, but since this was the Dorset coast they were pretty lucky to have found him.
One day he left his car keys in the staff room, so another colleague went around all the classrooms to find the owner. When he came to me, I told him "They aren't mine, but they look like Matty's".
"Who's Matty?" he asked
"You know, the black guy." I replied
Said colleague looked at me in utter disbelief, as though it was racist to point out the one feature that distinguished Matty from every other member of staff, and therefore render him recognisable to someone who didn't know his name. From the look on the guy's face, you'd have thought I'd used the n- word. Like it's hightist to describe someone as "tall" or eyesist to say someone has blue eyes.
Every black person who I've told this story to has laughed like a drain and said "What else were you supposed to say?"
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 16:35, Reply)
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