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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But 'speech which incites racial hatred' comes in many formsAnd although the BNP have dressed their message up with a pinch of respectable politics, they are still racist hate-mongers. 'Mong' being the operative word.
Also, freedom of speech is a double-edged sword. If people like Nick Griffin and David Irving should be allowed to have their say without being attacked, so should the people who are protesting. As I said, it's difficult to know where to draw the line...
And yes, inflateable, I did say that. Did you read my reply, or just the headline?
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 23:20, Reply)
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