Monday 9 March 2015

Second thoughts on the postcard wording

It currently reads,
You have been logged using the phrase ordinary people, thereby implying that you are better than ordinary. As you are a politician / journalist, that seems unlikely. Please stop using this patronising phrase.
This is fine for politicians and journalists (and it is these groups that cause the most offence), but less satisfactory for other categories such as non-journalist-broadcasters and academics. My current approach is to cross out politician / journalist and write in 'other'.

There are 92 postcards left and I'm sticking with those but for the next 100 (if the campaign continues), I might have an alternative,
As you are a politician / journalist, that seems unlikely.
As a(n) ______________ , you should know better.

There's plenty of time to mull this over.

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