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)
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Reminds me of BBC 'bleeping'I heard an absolute classic a few years ago when the BBC tried showing 'Beverly Hills Cop' before the watershed (What the point of that is I'll never know). Yes there were the usual 'muddy funster' changes etc but in the scene where Eddie Murphy is called a 'foul mouthed jerk from out of town' and he replies 'Foul mouthed? FUCK YOU MAN!' it was replaced with 'Foul mouthed?......and you have a pig face' Brilliant and accidentally way funnier than the original script. I could only wonder what Eddie Murphy thought when he was asked to reshoot scenes such as that and say the alternative lines...
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