Political Correctness Gone Mad
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)
( , Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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)
( , Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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Where The Mrs Works The Christmas "Do" Has Been Renamed.
It shall henceforth be referred to as the end of year lunch so as not to offend the only brown person of muslim extraction on the team, who
won't be attending this year anyway as it is being held on a Friday, even though he won't be at the mosque, either, as he's non practicing.
So, that's all right. Isn't it ?
( , Wed 28 Nov 2007, 18:32, Reply)
It shall henceforth be referred to as the end of year lunch so as not to offend the only brown person of muslim extraction on the team, who
won't be attending this year anyway as it is being held on a Friday, even though he won't be at the mosque, either, as he's non practicing.
So, that's all right. Isn't it ?
( , Wed 28 Nov 2007, 18:32, Reply)
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