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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i onceheard the phrase "Political Correctness Gone Mad" referred to as "the distress call of the thwarted bigot"...which at the time I wholeheartedly agreed with.
But now I'm not so sure...If many of these stories are true then I may have to reevaluate my standpoint!
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 19:48, 3 replies)
Don't worry, they're not.It was Christopher Brookmyre; he also suggested that the phrase 'political correctness' was made up by old Tories and the like to bitch about the fact that you can't treat dykes, niggers, spics, wogs and shirtlifters the way you used to. (I'm paraphrasing, but not by much.)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 19:54, closed)
Brilliant!Brilliant, brilliant - I love that quote. I'll be using that one!
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Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 21:53,
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HmmmI wouldn't worry, most of the stories here are the same old recycled urban myths used by unreformed bigots to somehow justify their beliefs... Only now they can also claim to be anti-authoritarian and edgy by defying some crazed (yet entirely fictional) "PC Police" that somehow enforces all of these things...
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 21:59, closed)
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