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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GhostbustersFollowing on from Pooflake's post about Turtle Power, anyone remember the animated spin-off of the Ghostbusters film, "The Real Ghostbusters"?
What a cracking cartoon. But then, they did a spin-off of that, called "Extreme Ghostbusters".
Call me old-fashioned, but I would've thought that busting ghosts would have been exempt from the Disability Discrimination Act.
As usual, Wikipedia says it best:
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Some Ghostbusters fans often criticize the show for its new graphic style and also for abruptly replacing the original Ghostbusters with a new team. Other detractors of Extreme Ghostbusters have criticized the show for "pushing political correctness" due to how diverse the new team members (a black person, a latino person, a female, and a disabled person) were.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 12:57,
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I remember that showIt sucked.
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 0:27, closed)
No it didn'tdid it? I remember liking it at the time.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 16:52, closed)
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