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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Useful shorthandI find the phrase "It's political correctness gone mad!" and its close cousin "I'm not racist but..." to be fantastically useful verbal shorthand for "It's ok, you can stop listening to me now as anything that follows this neat and catchy phrase is going to be utter bollocks, probably racist and/or sexist, possibly made up factoids, probably inspired by right wing wank like the Daily Mail and entirely and irredeemably fucking pointless."
And breathe...
I'm sure that someone has already posted this sort of comment but I'm too lazy to check. This is probably because of the deplorable education I received at school in nanny-state* Britain.
*'Nanny-state' that's another 'stop listening' wank-word.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 11:29, 1 reply)
I wouldn't mind a nanny...It's worrying that all the people who decry the "nanny state" seem to be hankering for a "drunken stepdad state". I'll take too much caring rather than not enough, thank you.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 11:48, closed)
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