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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Book ClubNot sure this story is completely on track but...
As a well behaved student of my Secondary School, I was asked to help out in a pilot scheme where those of us who were considered to be of a slightly higher intellect were requested to help those students who had trouble with their studies.
The scheme involved the "thick kids" reading a book to us and we'd have to help them when they got stuck. I think the idea was that the more they read, the more intelligent they would become.
As I was the only member of the "Slightly More Intellectual" that had a foreign name (I'm half Italian if anyone cares) I was paired with a young Indian boy with an equally tough name to pronounce.
On the second day of the scheme my Indian friend was struggling with his reading quite considerably and I had to correct him on a number of occasions, other than that I was feeling like the scheme was going to be a success.
The next day I was asked not to return to the scheme as I would no longer be needed. I was then called to the Headmasters office who explained that the young Indian boy had complained to his father about me, who had in turn complained to the school. The complaint was something along the lines of me unnecessarily correcting his son and only doing so because I was racist. But I didn't. I only corrected him cos he was Stupid! I knew the head quite well as I was one of the school goodie-goodie's (a prefect to boot) and explained that I would never do such a thing and I certainly wasn't Racist. The Head agreed but told me that even though he knew I wouldn't do such a thing, he had to remove me from the Scheme to prove to the Indian Father that the school doesn't mess around when it comes to Racism and Bullying and to prove they can deal with any situation.
I missed out on 10 Merits because of that, but at least I got my Lunch breaks back!
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 10:38, Reply)
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