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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well its trueI used to work in a team of about 10-12 people.
3 of us had the same name. Mike.
The team lead was Mike, I was using the name, and so was an Kenyan guy working with us.
The team lead was dead small, I'm 6'2 and 20 stone, and the Kenyan guy is black.
When someone was sent up to ask us for something they'd usually be told to go as me or the lead... so they'd walk in and say "I need to ask Mike something"
I'd usually shout "The little one, the fat one, or the black one?"
At least you would tell us apart!
(, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 18:30, Reply)
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