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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At work, the play-out system runs on two computers simultaneously: the 'master' and the 'slave'.These are terms now deemed un-PC (although when, by who and why has never been discovered, so it's probably untrue). Still, we now call them 'butcher' and 'mincer'.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:04, closed)
For"Probably", read "almost certainly".
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 16:10, closed)
MincerCouldn't that be offensive to camp people?
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 18:22, closed)
That's the point, Charlie.(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 16:34, closed)
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