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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How could I have forgotton this?I have a mate who's surname is Sampson (who used to be a b3taphile, and may or may not be reading. *waves* just in case). He was introduced to me as "Sambo", and not being one for using racial epithets it had never occured to me the potential and obvious disaster waiting to happen.
Said disaster happened not less than a month later on a lunchtime maccyd's and doobage run, when, after going on ahead while he parked up we spotted him trying to locate us from the middle of a large gaggle of black students loitering just inside the door.
"Oi! Sambo! Over 'ere!" I bellowed, waving my arms in the air. I didn't stay long, and fortunately there was not only another door, but a very long and quiet period of shock from said coloured ladies and gentlemen.
I still go a nice shade of beetroot whenever I hear the word sambo as an epithet.
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 15:03, 2 replies)
YeahI called my brother 'Sambo' for years before I found out the meaning (it being a modification of his first name. Bet you can't guess ;) ). Though it could be worse. My mum calls me B.J. (my first and middle initials) and theres no way she could not know what it means :/
On the casual racism subject, we had two lop-eared rabbits when I was about 7. One was white and mottled-brown, the other black and brown. Their names?
Mighty White and Darkie.
I named Mighty White after the bread. I had no idea and nobody corrected me...
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mr_wicksy is.... old., Tue 27 Nov 2007, 15:30,
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I know a guy who has been known as "Sam" for over thirty years nowdespite his real name being something totally different...apparently when he was young he got some kind of disease that made him get scabs on his face and his lips swell up, so he acquired the unfortunate nickname of "scabby sambo" and it stuck...
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 19:15,
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