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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If only I were mad I could have Mad PrideI have ME/CFS, you should see what utter bollocks people with this have to put up with every day and not just from ordinary twats but the medical professionals (ha!) who are supposed to help us. Apparently, we have a suggestibility virus and want to be sick (live in poverty, etc), so the only treatment is to convince us that our sickness beliefs are wrong (CBT). Then if we don't get better it was our fault for not believing/wanting to get better. This means that any person anywhere, if we are actually well enough to venture outside for a welcome sojourn, can verbally abuse us at will because we are malingerers, even described by one medical professional (government approved bloke) as "the undeserving sick" (because of our hypochondriac malingering and fake illness beliefs). It's so much fun. I kind of wish there was PCness for ME/CFS.
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 16:19, Reply)
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