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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Has anyone mentionedthe über-PC Jasper Carrott sitcom from a couple of years ago... All About Me? I don't think I need to say much more than that.
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Maladicta, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 11:02,
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Nobodyhas, so you're the first. I could not bear to watch it.
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mr_wicksy is.... old., Mon 26 Nov 2007, 11:07,
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Why is it uber-PC?Because he had a disabled kid and an asian wife? Are disabled people not allowed on tv? Should the races not be mixed in your world?
I don't get it.
I agree, it was shit. But why should these two things make it "uber-PC"?
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 11:09, closed)
The kid trying to play footballSorry, its brought back memories of floods of tears
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 13:36, closed)
IIRCOne episode had the dad contemplating whether to smash up an old Victorian fireplace that he thought looked rather pretty. At which point the ghost of the guy who made it appeared to him and pointed out that the owners of the fireplace had been rich bastards. So that was OK then.
Basically the programme was as subtle as getting hit over the head with a lamp-post.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 15:25, closed)
Don't forget...... the episode where husband and wife had a big fall-out cos he called the ref at a football match "black bastard" and genuinely couldn't see what the problem was.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 18:15, closed)
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