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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This is a tale from NorwayOnce in a while, Norway gets its mediafocus in the "big" countries, like England, USA and well basicly any other country where they are sofisticated. (this includes, but is not limited to France)
We give out the Nobel Peace Price. But what do we do in between our brief stays in the media limelight?
Well off lately there has been a big debate in the media, about racism. Where do you draw the line on racism?
Accourding to people who have nothing better to do than to read old (but darn good) childrens books from the sweedish author Astrid Lindgren, you draw it at the word negro. And you draw it in the past. Result? Printing new copies of tons of old childrenbooks where words including negro is written. (he was a negroking iex this particular one was if I remember correctly replaced with a norwegian word for Southernsea-king)
Now I know that colour of skin is a very sensetive issue. (and a very confusing one, counting all the Wangsters and Wiggers at my school, but I shall not be racist against them due to theyre lack of pigment(its not theyre fault they where born white) If you want to be black, be black.)
But as I am white, my brother is black, and my sister is half-pakistanian, I my self is no rasist. But I do draw the line when we start removing the freedom of speech from authors that are long gone, in boks where the word is used in a positive way etc.
Lenght: My brother is 184 cm
*edit: Hey I feel its like saying: He´s got glasses or his hair is red. But the generation older then me seems to think that its a serious harasment.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 23:25, 1 reply)
it's a tricky issuebut revising old texts for a new audience is potentially worthwhile, because they do not see the outdated attitude when young, so get to enjoy the story. and when they're older they can learn about old attiudes and why they're no longer acceptable.
As long as we're open about change, it's possible to move on.
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mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 23:42,
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