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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Talk about topical!I JUST got the 2008 Holiday schedule for my company. And then, about 30 minutes later I got the following correction email:
"The holidays are the same however I changed the name of Christmas to "Happy Holiday"."
What a crock of crap. They included Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and as a Catholic, I am offended by the mention of Martin Luther.
WTF?! I am considering sending her an email saying that.
Christmas is, I guess, offensive to too many people. What a crock of bullshit.
Citadel
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Citadel Because the world needs less morons, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 20:51,
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"As a Catholic I am offended by Martin Luther"This is brilliant! I think you should. Really. It makes just as much sense as half the crap people object to.
I once had a balck student report me to Race Relations cause I said something about Florence Nightengale being "tarred with the same brush". I was almost fired until I proved it didn't have anything to do with being black.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 23:03, closed)
martin luther or martin luther king jr?the revolutionary protestant or the baptist black rights campaigner? obviously the day is named after the latter, but if i were catholic the former would be worse for me.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 0:06, closed)
latter/formerThe latter is named after the former, meaning that the day, being named after the latter, is also, by proxy, named after the former.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 11:14, closed)
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