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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Multiplex Cinema BluesI work for a very large, well known chain of cinemas.
My particular cinema is based in Manchester.
At the time of this occurence, I was beginning to get excited about the release of "The Assasination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford". It also happened that I was in charge of the display of promotional materials around the cinema and the local area. So naturally I began my campaign to plaster the faces of Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck in any conceivable space.
The following week I received an e-mail from our regional office stating that all promotional materials for the film must be taken down immediately so not to cause offence to the family of a boy named Jessie James who had been shot and killed in the Moss Side area of Manchester the previous year.
However, I was also told (not quite so publically) that the film wasn't expected to bring in much money at our site and that we could probably gain more revenue and spare any potential bad press by showing an alternative film aimed at our main target demographic of children and young families.
Overt political correctness annoys me as it is, but when it is used as a corporately responsible facade for making more money, then it just needs to stop.
Sorry, I know this isn't funny. It just annoys me.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 19:16, 2 replies)
Evil corporations being all corporation-yYes, it's outrageous that a company should decide to release a product that it thinks will make more money, instead of one that it thinks won't.
(, Sat 24 Nov 2007, 14:20, closed)
Who the hell calls their kid Jessie James anyway?Why not Joe stalin, or Pol Pot?
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 14:57, closed)
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