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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Retard Unit...... and other fun names.
Being that I live in Sweden and haven't yet had to deal with the blithering foolishness that is "PC gone mad" I have fun playing with people who've got it engrained in their systems.
I work for an engineering company which has branches in Italy Germany the US and Sweden. When making engineering drawings we have a large database of names and words that are translated into all four languages automatically. This allows for standardisation and fewer confusing moments as we try to work out what a "Soina di ritardo" ... according to my database, it's a "Retard Pin".
We also have "Bottom-up filling pumps" and "Suction lips", but the real killer in meetings with USA-based designers is the anything with "retard" in it. I refuse to stop using a perfectly good word like "retarded" to describe the slowing down of something (usually a motion in my case) JUST because someone thinks I'll offend a someone of lower mental processing speed.
Watching pious do-gooders choke on their coffee and complain that you "can't use that word" is a joy. Usually followed up by me dragging a long and painful explanation out of them on why exactly we should abandon/change perfectly good English words... And then I usually ask if they're offended that I've spelled "Aluminium" correctly...
*Humpty potters off to tune his Retard Gate*
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Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Wed 28 Nov 2007, 10:21,
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Reminds of BoratWhen he's attending the dinner with some American hosts. 'What do you do'? he askes one elderly gent. 'I'm retiirred' comes the reply.
'You are retard'? counters Borat, as the bloke tries to explained that he no longer worked, and wasn't, in fact, lacking in mental faculty.
Brilliant movie, and so, so wrong in so many places. Love it.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 28 Nov 2007, 12:21,
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it's science! science is exempt from PC language changes... or should be
I wonder if American physics depts teach about retarded potentials or if they just skip that bit.
Out of interest, did they have any suggestions for alternatives?
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catness, Wed 28 Nov 2007, 14:35,
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