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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There are places for political correctness, and places where it should be left behind,pretty much any situation that's in the public eye dealing with folks in a non-friendly more professional way is the place to use a modicom of it, but any situation like close-knit workmates, friends or family probably isn't the place to worry about it, the trouble is many times the edges can get blurred, as that silly bitch that said Nigger on Big Brother learned a while back.
However, places where it definitely isn't a worry include between consenting adults in private, and any toilet wall graffiti.
A friend of mine told me this tale on the latter:
He was sat in a gents cubicle at work, and someone unknown had scrawled 'Muslims wear turbans!!' on the wall. This is, of course, incorrect, and my friend proceeded to correct this chaps error by adding the graffiti, 'No, Sikhs wear turbans,' then, as an after thought due to the fact that wasn't very funny, added, 'Muslims wear backpacks!'
Stop wincing and pretend this is a pub! ;)
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..wil, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 18:28,
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