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Freddy 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)

(unknown, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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About 15 years ago I ran a pub with my dad
I had a cat who lived there with me, called Snowy*.

She was as black as night. If she ever appeared anywhere near the bar someone would be bound to beckon her over and stroke her, and then usually ask me what her name was.

The looks on their faces when I answered "Snowy" were generally priceless - some people just didn't understand, but a select handful kind of clammed up and looked scared, as if I was making some kind of racist judgement on their reply =)



*I was merely being ironic by calling her Snowy, it wasn't any kind of racist comment.
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 9:09, 5 replies)
Fact!
The owner of the two kittens I got years ago called the mother Nigger. I was only going to get one kitten but I couldn't leave the other in the hands of that women.
(I helped save b3ta! girlinthehole, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 9:33, closed)
Much like the dog in the Dambusters as I recall
To a certain generation there's nothing wrong with that...

As my dad once explained:

White cat - snowy
black cat - sooty
ginger cat - ginger
black and white cat - tom
(I helped save b3ta! Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Wed 28 Nov 2007, 10:41, closed)
also applies to fish
The black one was called "Goldfish"
The ginger one was called "Finger"

QED
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 11:21, closed)
Your snowy bloody cat thing
People like you shouldn't venture out of your cave's you racist bugger.
And I bet you look like B.E.R.I.F.
(I helped save b3ta! porky, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 12:41, closed)
Haha porky, it took me a minute to remember what B.E.R.I.F. stood for =)
So did you get the email I sent you the other day then or what?
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 13:00, closed)

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