History Main / PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad

** Speaking of which, SpeedyGonzales was a victim of this, as his cartoons were taken off the air for many years due to the idea that Mexicans would find the stereotyping offensive. The irony of it all is that [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales a whole lot of Mexicans actually]] ''[[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales love]]'' [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales Speedy]], and a few years and several petitions later, he's back on the air.

* Subverted: when the Smithsonian "Museum of the American Indian" opened, a petition quickly pulled up to change it to "Native American". It was quashed by request of none other than the Muscogee High Chief. Most of the complaints for Indians aren't made by Indians. Furthermore, the museum is not about "Native ''Americans''" but is about all of the people indigenous to the New World.
** By the way, the New World is North and South America. 'American' does not have to designate a citizen of the USA only.

** Relatedly, the NFL has gotten a lot of flack for the Washington Redskins, which has largely died down since a poll found that about 94% of actual Native Americans don't have any problem with the name.
*** Really, the main image problem the Redskins have is the fact that their original owner, George Preston Marshall, who was one of the founders of the modern National Football League, pressured all the other team owners not to draft or sign a single nonwhite player until 1946 (this despite the presence of black players in the original NFL in the 1920s), and also because Marshall himself refused to sign any black players for his team until 1962. Despite these marks on his character, Marshall is still in the Pro Football Hall of Fame (he's too seminal a figure in American football history to be omitted) and the Redskins still have his name proudly displayed on one of the many banners decorating the perimeter of [=FedEx Field=] in Landover, Maryland.

* The 4Kids release of ''DragonballZKai'' had the removal of halos from dead characters (too religious, presumably). Instead, they were replaced by small glowing orbs. Also, blue Mr. Popo[[note]] What about him? We may never know.[[/note]] . Heck, 4Kids in general could be put here.

* In the John Byrne relaunch of Superman in the mid-1980s, Krypton was portrayed as a sterile society where all Kryptonians were placed in isolated chambers upon birth and interacted only with automation (robots and other devices) so that there was no chance in any of them being offended by ''anything'' another one did or said. When Jor-El removes Kal-El's "birthing matrix" and attaches it to the escape rocket, he seeks out Lara, the female who provided the other half of the genetic material. The meeting of these two Kryptonians was said to be the first in several thousand years. Also, since Kal-El was still "developing" on the trip from Krypton to Earth, he was "born" on Earth, in Kansas, making him a true citizen of Earth and the U.S.

* From the [[http://www.radiolab.org/2010/jun/28/be-careful-what-you-plan-for/ July 7, 2013]] episode of [[Creator/{{NPR}} WNYC's]] Radiolab, crossing over with the ScunthorpeProblem: A right-wing Christian publication replaced every instance of "gay" in an article with "homosexual". Sounds okay, right? Not when the article is about a guy whose last name is "Gay".

* In a recent episode of WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons, Ned Flanders is shown watching EVERY TV show and finds something "offensive" or just something to complain about on all he sees, except for two shows. If that's not Political Correctness literally Gone Mad... It doesn't stop there; even his sons tell him, in their own way, that he's gone off the deep end.

* In the remake of the film ''TheLadykillers'', one of the characters (a foul-mouthed, "gangsta" black teen) is fired for hitting on a female customer. When he hears he's fired, he says his boss is doing it because he's black. The entire cleaning staff is black, and the guy doesn't fall for it until they bribe him.

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** Season one had an episode called "Sense and Sensitivity" which gleefully parodied this trope. A demon used magic to cause the L.A.P.D. e to become politically correct beyond the point of lunacy, not only in order to control them, but to cause general mayhem. In a day, all the police are "sharing their feelings", that is, babbling incoherently and pathetically about all the injustice and pain in the world, and showing weakness and an aversion to violence in front of hardened criminals. The entire precinct is almost overrun.

* One of the early issues of the HeroesReborn ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' series has a scene where a {{SHIELD}} agent mentions that there are some people who are upset with the lack of racial diversity in the Avengers line-up. NickFury scoffs at this and proceeds to insult anyone who would actually hold such an opinion, even though [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall diversity continues to be a hot button issue in comics to this day]].

** Even crazier political correctness than that, [[MoralGuardians insane social justice warriors]] forced the company [[ExecutiveMeddling to edit away]] a fan ShoutOut silly nonsense name (leaving her nameless in the interim despite still selling merchandise around her) and mangle said pony's voice to Inoffensively Generic level with no uniqueness at all. Meanwhile, the majority-agreed-upon-name they focus on [[CompletelyMissingThePoint IS an actually insulting slur]], and the removal of her tics and visually recognisable cues [[TheMentallyDisturbed implies that not only are people with strabmisus retarded]], [[DisabledMeansHelpless but also that the mentally disabled shouldn't be allowed to be seen at all]] and [[UnfortunateImplications cannot do anything without coddling and handholding 24/7]]. [[StopHelpingMe And how is this supposed to aid anyone in understanding anything, exactly]]? Similarly to the Speedy Gonzales examples, an outpouring of support [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales from the afflicted and groups related to their awareness]] ensued, but unfortunately since the studio had already eaten the cost of the initial PR nightmare, [[TooSoon it seems some time will need to pass]] before her reintroduction and regaining her original form. This also may have the unintended consequence of [[HeWhoMustNotBeHeard making them reluctant to give speaking roles to background characters ever again]], especially since they already have a workaround for whenever they can't find an appropriate voice for a character. (The scene begins just after they would have spoken, such as beginning a scene immediately after a main pony completes a purchase.)

* In one later season ''KingOfTheHill'' episode, a "diversity expert" was brought in to Tom Landry Middle School by the school board to make sure all the different minorities were "cooperating". He singled out Bobby's carnival committee to do a few experiments and eventually just heaped racial guilt on each member for things their respective cultures were responsible for. When Bobby insisted the students get back to work on the carnival, the expert made a comparison to the Nazi holocaust, and given that Bobby's grandpa Cotton is a WWII veteran, it really got to him. Instead of a carnival, the kids decided to just announce their "guilt" of various global atrocities until a riot almost started because they didn't finish the carnival. Hank, Peggy, and the other parents finished putting together the carnival, and the diversity expert weaseled out of any punishment by claiming it was his idea.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts have been victims of this for a long time. Many older shorts are sprinkled with content no longer considered suitable for children, which means that some scenes get cut and leave the overall effect pretty disjointed. Others are never shown on kids TV at all anymore, only to adults who seek them out and are assumed to be able to understand the context they were written in.

* There was [[http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/01/20/utah-school-rejects-cougar-mascot-to-avoid-offending-older-women/ one school in Utah]] that was forced to change its name from the Cougars to avoid offending ''middle aged women'' (for whom "cougar" is a term)

* Common problem with "The Nigger of the Narcissus", a novel by nowadays classic JosephConrad... It has it in its title, so it is quite frequent to rise really heated debate in public libraries and schools. No racism intended in the novel, nigger being a completely acceptable term at the time for any black person.

* [[spoiler: Kankri]] from ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'', as a parody of {{Tumblr}} and the OverlyNarrowSuperlative sect of the LGBT community, overly defines every potential facet of his caste system and tries way too hard to make sure nothing he says offends anyone in the slightest, often asking people for a detailed list of what would offend them before going into [[WallOfText one of his monologues]]. He seems to be [[{{Irony}} blissfully unaware]] that his attitude comes off as incredibly sexist and bigoted to his friends. It gets to his point where he actually [[BitchInSheepsClothing criticizes a mentally-challenged person for wearing a helmet]] on the grounds that [[SlipperySlopeFallacy it implies that all of the mentally-challenged should be forced to wear helmets]]. Another character suggests that [[DeconstructedTrope his political correctness is just a ruse to get away with backhandedly talking about his friends's flaws to their faces.]]

* The ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Cigar Store Indian" has Jerry insulting his Native American girlfriend with the eponymous item, and spending the rest of the episode struggling with things like telling her he made a "reservation" at a restaurant. Eventually she dumps him when he offends an Asian mailman by asking where a good Chinese restaurant is (figuring that as a mailman he'd know the neighborhood).