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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I work next to a SikhLovely guy. Initially I was a bit nervous as Guildford isn't the most multi-cultural of places, being a Daily Mail reader stronghold and I really didn't want to accidentally offend him. Instead I just started asking him questions about his religion and so on. I learned loads, he got to explain it so somebody actually understood without treading on eggshells and everybody won.
The most offensive thing about racism and about unthinking political correctness is in forgetting that the person on the receiving end is, in fact, a person. How this gets forgotten boggles the mind.
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