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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My old mateLOL! Yeh, I know that problem, I have an older friend in his 60s who has lived and worked in Ghana, and he feels there's nothing at all wrong with the term 'Darkies', it was fine when he was working with 'em, so why isn't it now!?
The funniest thing is he has a bit of a penchant for them, and often talks of, 'That lovely darkie that works in the chip shop' and such, and I can't help but wonder at how well his chat-ups go.
Lovely bloke and totally not prejudiced against black folks at all, but lordy, the amount of sharp intakes of breath I take at times...
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