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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Crossing the border.A few years ago, I was travelling in East Africa, and was in a queue of white tourists waiting to have our passports stamped to get into Zambia from Zimbabwe.
While we were waiting, a busload of American tourists turned up, all of whom were black, and all of whom forced their way to the front of the queue. Complaints followed, and were met with the rejoinder, "Hey, you're in our land now! You can't treat us like slaves!"
The Zambian border guard looked at us apologetically. I'm assuming that that's not the first time something similar had happened. And I'd wager that, while stamping their visas, he was thinking "Now I know why my great-grandparents were so keen to sell yours to theirs." Possibly.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 14:25,
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That's not because they were black.It's because they were merkins.
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