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)
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And another thing...Remembered something a bit better than my previous post on this.
I spent two summers working on Camp Spolit Weasel in Pennsylvania as an archery and paintball instructor (free paintball! archery practice all day!).
After two weeks of team building and getting the camp prepared go by, the kids turn up for the summer. Things started to go downhill rapidly. After a few days we realised we were in fact worthless foreign slave labour. It wasn't long before we started to get the jibes about being foreign, then about not being in their tightly-knit (and massively inbred) social circle, then finally, because we weren't Jewish.
A good chum of mine (RIP) was of German decent and let it slip once during a chat. Word got round and he was known as 'The Paintball Nazi' from then on.
Now as it happens, I have quite a steady hand and neat writing, so I used to make t-shirts for the kids with names and numbers on as well a few for the adults. Lots of jokey stuff (including one shirt for a really fat kid and the number I gave him was 3.14159265...), but after all the hassle and harrassment we recieved it was all I could do not to make up a request from The Paintball Nazi.
"I want a shirt."
"OK, what do you want on it?"
"'The problem with this camp is...' on the front."
"OK, and on the back?"
"'There's not enough concentration'."
I felt for him, I really did, but as over half the kids on the camp had grandparents who had been Auschwitz, I thought it might be a bit off...
Inexplicably, I went back the next summer and met a girl who's now my wife.
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 24 Nov 2007, 22:54,
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YouSpoilt the word "spoilt" by spelling it "spolit"
Quite spoilt the story for me.
No spoliers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 9:05,
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