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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Dull, sorry, but completely true.Just after the war in Afghanistan had started I was in my first creative writing type job (pharma marketing - ironically second only to the arms trade in terms of ethics) and loving the freedom to say new and - at last - interesting things. I'd had 9 months working as a technical author before this, and there's not a huge amount of room for imagination in a standard operating procedure.
Anyway, one of my first assignments was a review of a marketing technique (I forget which), the point being that it was very, very targeted. As opposed to broader techniques.
The phrase excised with some vehemence by my boss for being "politically insensitive given the current climate"?
...gives better results than untargetted "carpet-bombing" approaches...
Hmmm. Perhaps I can see the point, but I'd rather cut it out for being a terrible bit of writing than for fear of offending someone...
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 19:20, Reply)
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