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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????What's with the altering of children's nursery rhymes, songs and stories so as to be politically correct?
Leave 'Baa baa black sheep' alone!
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 0:01, 3 replies)
I like this questionIt allows me to pick out the Daily Mail readers amongst you
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The Coast Of Yemen, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 7:22,
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I'm going to be very dull - worse than usual - so here goes:The problem with Baa Baa BBlack Sheep is not in the words, but the origin.
The three bags full is a reference to the triangular trade routes, and guess who the black sheep to be shorn were.
However, not a lot of people know that and less care. Those who make a fuss manage only to stir up old shit which no amount of PC can put right now.
Perhaps if they turn instead to making nursery rhymes addressing todays ills - simple stanzas to halt the panzas.
Hold on a minute. I smell a compo.
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Farmer Geddon - is on his way., Thu 29 Nov 2007, 9:51,
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^^^^ThisThe whole "Yes sir, yes sir" bit is also meant to convey subservient slave talk.
So it's a bit dodgy on the whole, really.
(, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 12:01, closed)
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