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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Spotted.Have you noticed on Ballamory how the opening titles go through each character in the programme in an 'introductory' way...and then for no reason whatsoever cuts to a Pakistani lady getting her kids ready for school?
It's like the Beeb thought 'oh bollocks, we thought we'd ticked every single PC box but we've forgotten to include any Pakistanis.
Nooooo!...what can we do? We haven't cast anybody...the show's been passed for broadcast....We.are.fucked....Quick - TO THE EDITING SUITE!'
Smacks so much of a knee-jerk reaction that was completely unnecessary but purely and patronisingly emphasises the Beeb's fear of being non PC.
(btw - I always thought the inventor was Scottish but was just trying to talk posh...shows what I know)
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