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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Naming names and naughty body parts.....Aberdeen Uni 1977: a cafeteria full of bored students half listening to a political hustings imposed on their ham and cheese toastie lunch in the name of "student democracy". One after another, future leaders of this country (some actually did run our lives later) went up and made boring, worthy speeches.
Not Neil though - a member of the Trotskite Socialist Workers Student Society - he went up immediately after a smart if reactionary guy (and a future well placed Tory) called Peter Young. Neil went up and announced:
"Peter Young is a CUNT".
Neil hardly got back to his seat before he was engulfed by a lot of ill fitting dungarees, doc martins and bad hairdoos. The Women's Voice caucus had got him.
It was a chastened Neil who returned for the follow up question a few minutes later. Clearly the hectoring he had received from his female comrades had had an effect.
He went back up to the microphone and standing still for a few moments (looking I remember well like a slightly dummer version of Sid Vicious about to shoot his audience after singing "My Way") before apologising:
"I was told I had to come back up and say I was sorry for calling Peter Young a CUNT. I'm sorry for saying that...."
"... after all a cunt's a nice thing."
I don't remember ever seeing Neil ever again after that. I do remember the scrum as the various furious women fought each other to get to him first. Perhaps the feminites buried his body at a crossroads somewhere with a sharpened speculum pierced through his heart.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 22:29, Reply)
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