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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Living in Portsmouthback in the 80s, and we always used to get our fruit and veg from the market on a Saturday. At the time my parents were doing the honourable lefty thing and boycotting Cape fruits because of Nelson Mandela's treatment at the hand sof his own country...
So, we're at the market, Dad's getting various bits and bobs and the market lady tries to give him some Cape apples. "Oh, no thanks, I'll have some of those ones instead, we don't eat South African apples"
To which the bloke in the queue behind us pipes up, in a very well spoken accent, "Oh yes I know! It's the thought of those horrible black hands all over them isn't it!"
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Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Mon 26 Nov 2007, 13:09,
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*Groan*last time I heard that one I fell off my Grifter...
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..wil, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 13:49,
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fantastic!I remember them barrow boys well-when the old man died they stopped the traffic for his horse n cart to pass thru'
not even that loony wot used to direct the traffic (and slept under the carts at night) was silent-remember him???
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 13:52, closed)
Sadly I was too young to really take much of this inso the days of Charlotte St. Market are lost on me...
As for WiL - my Dad swears blind that this is what happened... if it's not, blame him!
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Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Mon 26 Nov 2007, 14:30,
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