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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blackface performers...
It's all a bit more complicated than just writing off blackface performers as racist. There were some really interesting challenges on racial stereotypes made through minstrel shows, and plenty of african-americans would also blackface up - not to mention the multitude of traditions that have nothing to do with race at all.
But yeah, bless those Daily Mail readers...
( , Sun 25 Nov 2007, 2:17, Reply)
It's all a bit more complicated than just writing off blackface performers as racist. There were some really interesting challenges on racial stereotypes made through minstrel shows, and plenty of african-americans would also blackface up - not to mention the multitude of traditions that have nothing to do with race at all.
But yeah, bless those Daily Mail readers...
( , Sun 25 Nov 2007, 2:17, Reply)
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