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Q&A Writing about real people - not giving offence

It's impossible to write anything about anyone at all without offending someone, potentially. Say you're writing something positive about a person, let's call him X. Now, X has a detractor named Y...

posted 5y ago by jwenting‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T13:02:33Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/48229
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar jwenting‭ · 2019-12-08T13:02:33Z (almost 5 years ago)
It's impossible to write anything about anyone at all without offending someone, potentially.

Say you're writing something positive about a person, let's call him X. Now, X has a detractor named Y who seriously, seriously, dislikes X.

She's likely to be offended by whatever you write about X that's not offensive to X himself. And maybe the reverse is also true.

And that's just 2 persons. It gets worse when religious groups are involved. Or entire countries. Write something positive about say Chang Kai Check and the PRC government is not going to like it at all.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-09-27T04:37:05Z (about 5 years ago)
Original score: 1