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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If you think we're racist now......I advise you to read the "Mass Observation" diaries written by UK people just after WW2.
Mass Observation was the blogging of its day. A collection recently published was written in the late 1940s by men and women of most ages and classes.
The amount of people who wrote - and this is *after* they knew of the atrocities of the concentration camps - that Hitler was right and should have killed off all the Jews - was shocking. Not just the elderly people, younger writers who were enamoured of the then socialist government.
So we have come quite far in several generations - not far enough maybe, but PC in its extreme forms is making things worse, not better.
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