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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What's wrong with actively trying to dissuade people from smoking?You shouldn't be allowed to smoke anywhere in public IMO.
Yeah, sure, it's great that you can go inside a pub or wherever and you no longer walk into a cloud of smoke but, as has been touched upon already, to get in and out of anywhere you still have to walk through a cloud of stinking carcinogens.
Then how about driving - you're not allowed to use a phone, fiddle with the stereo, put on make-up or do pretty much anything whilst driving but you are allowed to smoke.
Lighting a cigarette is a distraction and God help you if you drop the damned thing on your lap.
Why should people be allowed to do that when it's just as likely to be the cause of a lapse in concentration as any number of other, illegal, activities?
You choose to smoke, so you deal with the consequences. Same as everything else in life.
Yes, the consequences are somewhat stricter with smoking but given the detrimental effect to your health and that of everyone else around you, it seems only fair.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 19:43, Reply)
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