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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Bikini ApeAs part of a misguided viral campaign for the magazine I used to work for, we sent out this image
with something along the lines of "send this on to any female colleagues who need a shave".
This ended up in outcry after one recipient took it as a racial slur. We had to put out an apology because she thought of herself as a ape?!
This then got worse when having left my keys in the office one night and therefore locking myself out of home, I returned via the pub to our office building. The security guard, who had seen me regularly leaving late, refused to let me in as I didn’t have my pass. He didn't respond well to me calling him a "fucking monkey", again as he was black. I really didn't mean it racially at all, but if I'd called him a clown perhaps he'd have thought I was referring to him as a minstrel or something. Anyway, stern words from the Editor and apology letters to both the building manager and said "security" buffoon all because he had some kind of simian complex.
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@><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 20:08,
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You're not awarethat calling a black guy a "fucking monkey" might be taken as race-based bigotry?
Wow. Just wow.
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somegreybloke, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 0:23,
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