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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DirtySupposedly the first the first time I saw an african-english/african-american/black person I was very very young an on a tram with my mum. This guy was standing next to us and I turned to my mum, and not very discretely, asked "mummy, why is that man's face so dirty?" Ooohh she was embarrassed.
(, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 12:26, 4 replies)
A friendat school did similar. He pointed at the man and said 'Look Mummy! Chocolate man!'
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mr_wicksy is.... old., Wed 28 Nov 2007, 12:34,
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A bit similarwe had a barely-female PE teacher at school whom one of my friends called "sir" at the first meeting...
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 12:45,
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My old boss' daughter......saw a black guy in a chip shop queue years ago and asked her gran very loudly why he was doing an impression of a duck, whilst pushing her lips out to mimic his
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Near enoughmy nephew (on a bus) asked me "Why is that woman so fat?" Mind you, she did take up the whole double seat so the wee guy had a point!
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