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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"You can't say that!"I work in a warehouse attached to a factory. The stores supervisor is a bit racist, but you can tell he doesn't mean anything by it. He just doesn't like anyone.
We get a lot of drivers coming in, and one of them is asian. He's a good laugh and is always joking with us, all in good fun, right?
Anyway, a few months ago, our purchasing manager (fat, stupid, useless) was sending her laptop back. She was over chatting with us, waiting for it to be picked up. The driver who turned up to pick it up was the asian guy, and he was talking to her. Jokingly, I said "watch him, he's a dark horse", meaning, obviously, that he probably gets many ladies, and not relating to his ethnicity in any way.
This prompted an exclamation from her "You can't say stuff like that!"
I was offended by this, and just to make sure I hadn't said anything wrong, when he came back with her laptop a week or so later, I told him of this, and he just laughed. The he said sometimes when he delivers parcels, he gets people saying "Is it a bomb?" and then getting all embarrassed, because they think they might have been racist.
Sorry it's not very funny, just if it had been offensive, surely he would have said something.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 22:23, Reply)
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