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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A pub in Soho of my acquiantanceHas a chef, who I'll name as Dean, because that's his name. He's lazy, incompetent, insubordinate and unpleasant. He told the manager that she was "looking really fat today", by means of casual conversation. He's taken six weeks off without notice because of his "studies" and still walked into a job when he came back. Last time I ate there (not knowing he was working in the kitchen - I wouldn't have ordered food if I'd have known he was going to make it) I ordered "ham and eggs" from the menu. The meal arrived without any eggs because he "forgot". When they did turn up the yolks were rock hard and almost white.
The management of the pub have been told by head office at the brewery that they can't fire him because he's a black African and they don't want to face a racial discrimination charge. He's a millstone around their necks and they can't afford to get rid of him, whereas if he'd been white and English he'd have been out on his ear four years ago.
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Sun 25 Nov 2007, 0:46,
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