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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BlackUp in these parts, the word 'black' can also mean 'dirty'. So if for example a (white) mate appears at the pub in an unwashed state, he would take a ribbing for being a 'black bastard'.
I don't think that would go down too well in other parts of the country with a higher black (skinned) population though.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 13:54,
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^ Thismy mother routinely commented that we looked like "Black Boab" when appearing home more than a bit grubby as kids. I have no idea who Boab was or why he may have been filthy, but it definitely wasn't racism.
Not sure I'd say it to my kids, mind you.......
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Black BoabYes, my mum has been known to use that phrase too.
But my gran preferred 'black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat', when describing anything particularly dirty.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 14:07,
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Black affrontedwas one of my gran's - meaning mortified. Why???
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over here (the north of irelandia) the police are refered to by the local hoodlums and shitholes as "black bastards"
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