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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Back in my school daysI think it was Primary 5 or 6 and we some how (this still boggles my mind) got two student teachers. we ended up with them for quite a while, one was not exactly attractive but she was no pile of rhino shit and the other way really quite attractive but more uptight than even the strongest conservative.
So it gets to christmas time once again and we were all asked to bring in music for the chrismas party (primary year 1 - 7 got a day for their own christmas party) so the week before said day was to arrive I had a few frinds round and we we're going through our tapes and I happened to did out a copy of "the very best of Ray Stevens" now it was full of funny songs (not all of them PC) but anyone who had any ethnic variety (all 2 of them) had heard the tape many times before and enjoyed it. So I took the tape to the christmas party.
On revealing it to the teachers they were quite keen to put it on until little miss tighter than a mousies lug gets a hold of the cover and sees one of the song is called "Ahab the Arab" and declaires that the tape can't be played because it could be seen as being racist.
Now the only kid who could have taken any reall offence to it told her to shut up and play it coz he liked it. He was very quickly sent home with a letter of complaint to his parents. Suffice to say most of us were a bit pissed of and started moaning that she was ruining our christmas party.
Most of the parents of the kids I knew got wind of the events that transpired on that day and the barrage of complaints that were launched againt the student teacher was mind boggling. Some of the comments written in those letters of complaint still make me laugh.
She was very quickly dismissed from the school and never seen again (thankfully) by any of the kids.
I'm just glad she read the top bit of the song list, had she gotten any further "Bridget the Midget" might have made her explode. Personally I think she had a grudge against me because I tried to be nice to everyone, I have since changed my way and am only nice to people who deserve it.
Length? about 16 years of bitterness because of that.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 12:58, Reply)
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