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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'nuther quickieon the subject of ethnic origins on application forms.
I've never seen a box marked "PINK" which surely is a more appropriate descriptive colour, (unless your David Dickinson then "ORANGE" would be more suitable.)
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 16:27, 3 replies)
Orangeis also the normal skin colour of teenage girls working as beauty counter assistants in department stores.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 9:36,
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