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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but that was then ...My old man had a black African colleague in the RAF who was affectionately known as Corporal 'Chalky' White. Nobody seemed to mind.
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 15:26, 3 replies)
From memory...If his surname was White, the word "Chalky" would be added, the same way that a Miller would become "Dusty." It is RAF tradition number 37628. Corporal White would have been called Chalky even if he'd been 16ft tall and bright green.
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 15:44, closed)
Yep, Leonard's rightI have two mates with the surname White and they're both nicknamed Chalky, irrespective of racial origins.
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 19:11,
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Plus...Nobody seeming to mind is not the same as nobody minding. The forces being what they are, an' all, my guess is that noone would admit to minding even if they did.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 10:59,
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