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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PC..I work for an American company and suffice to say they take PC seriously. We have courses on how to behave, ethics, financial goody goodyness, ethnic acceptability etc etc. My favourite line was, "When you see someone who is new to the company for the first time, do not look at how they look". Now... call me thick... but... how do you look at someone without looking at them? Were we supposed to guess how they looked?
The saddest thing is the idea of having to have specific numbers of certain ethnic groups hired per percentage applicants. This is shocking to me because it means we are hiring people based on how they look rather then their ability to do a job. That in itself is racist; we may not be able to hire someone from the prevailing ethnic background regardless of their ability over the other candidates.
The only thing I'll add is: Racism is a true evil in any form, whether it's against a minority or a majority. Ability counts. colour does not.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 21:12, Reply)
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