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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beer advertsBeer adverts are very PC - once you notice this, it's hard to not laugh at beer adverts.
Blokes drinking in pubs - in adverts, there is always 3 of them. Two white guys, and one black.
Two blokes - hmmm, nothing wrong with being gay, but we've got a target audience here...won't do.
Four blokes in a pub - whoa, bit intimidating, almost a gang...four blokes on the piss.
Right, 3 blokes then.
Hang on, three white blokes, in a a pub...shades of BNP there, we don't want to be seen as racists..
Fuck's sake. Right then. THREE blokes in a pub, one of them is black.
What about asians?
Fuck 'em, they're all muslims and don't drink beer anyway.
I'm CERTAIN this conversation has taken place in some marketing meeting somewhere - any marketing bods on here want to confirm my long held theory?
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:54, 3 replies)
Alternatively:OK. Let me see... Do you think the discussion goes:
"Oh no, we can't have three white people here, because we'll look racist, and the PC police will be on to us"
Or:
"Well, our market research shows that a significant proportion of our customers aren't white. Why don't we put a black person into the advert to represent that section of the consumers?"
It's not all a "PC gone maaad!" conspiracy you know, in this case it's just basic capitalism.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 0:08, closed)
I know.......but it's still funny
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 7:32, closed)
Your long held theory?Held since May 12th, 2007, presumably, when this point was made, almost verbatim, in The Guardian.
www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,2076491,00.html
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 13:07, closed)
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