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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I enjoyed this bit:"Yhis isn't like the Iraq War, showing opposition doesn't mean a damn thing." I think you missed the result of that protest. 2 million people marching through London didn't mean a damn thing, and we're still in Iraq.
But I agree with your sentiment, and I'm surprised at some of the replies. A post further up says "So David Irving should be allowed to have his say, and the protesters shouldn't?" No. His post says he thinks both parties are idiots. He's not attempting to stop either party from speaking, he just thinks both are misguided.
And you can, apparently, tell a policeman to fuck off, as long as it's not agressive. There's a legal precedent, though I don't know where.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 23:53, Reply)
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