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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Being fair to people is rubbishI recently read in a newspaper about how schools were being forced to rename 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' to 'Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep', as it could be construed as racist. Political correctness gone mad, I tell you.
Oh wait, hang on - could it be that the usage of the word 'black' was never outlawed in said nursery rhyme, but that 'rainbow', along with 'green', 'happy', 'puzzled', etc, were simply introduced to help expand schoolchildren's vocabulary? And could it be possible that the paper made the whole bleeding thing up, in the same it had when it reported exactly the same story back in the 80s and 90s?
Yes. Yes, it could.
Fucking Daily Mail wankers.
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the_other_jeff_lebowski Croutons on my tits, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 13:57,
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