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)
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PJMWell, it ought to. But it doesn't: that's the problem. People are not rational and disinterested debators: they are emotional, liable to the confirmation fallacy, and so on. Hence your optimistic faith in reason isn't reliable - which is a shame, because, although it's the best we have.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 9:33,
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