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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Black RobWe had a mate, via a mate, at Uni called black Rob. Now this was Norwich in the mid 90's and honest to god there was only one black person in the city whom wasn't a curry restauranteur or waiting staff. Now its not a big city, and the Uni only had a about 5000 students.
Even he used to say on the phone " Its me Rob" "rob who?" "You know, black Rob" "Aaaah. Hi mate ......"
I bet we would get chucked of the Union bar for that these days. The Non-smoking bar was called Winnies - as in Mandela. It was ok to be a provocative conflict mongering terrorist but actually to call someone by their own nickname could have ended your degree right there.
Crazy times. I would not have objected to Pink Bazza, although i am not gay. Or even snowflake. I only object to c*nt. Even though i can be one.
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bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Mon 26 Nov 2007, 16:12,
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it's still like that now...i'm at UEA, and there's about 3 black people in the whole place. lots of east asian students on exchange programs, but very few of our afro-caribbean bretheren.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 18:16, closed)
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