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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We tried this too...Hatfield Poly also had a Mandela bar, which was barely ever used. One of my friends was expelled from the local chapter of the Students Union for asking innocently if it was called the Mandela bar because it was permanently locked up.
Anyhow, then they let Mandela out. So, as above, rename the bar. So they put it to a vote. They had the biggest meeting ever, and large numbers of people, like a 90% majority, voted to call it the "Rolf Harris bar". Sadly, not my idea, but I did rally another few dozen voters behind the proposal.
On finishing counting the votes, the ruling SU council... decided that the vote was invalid, because "we weren't taking it seriously enough", and named it after some other PC hero. We continued calling it the "Elehouse Pub" anyway.
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 3:16, Reply)
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