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Political Correctness

Is Political Correctness Real

  • Yes

    Votes: 82 82.8%
  • No

    Votes: 8 8.1%
  • Other

    Votes: 9 9.1%

  • Total voters
    99
But the left wing is getting worse all the time. I'm not one to push books, but I just finished reading The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech by Kirsten Powers and even she, a liberal, has recognized how awful the left is becoming when it comes to free speech.
Ok, I looked it up on Amazon, and it looks very interesting. It's scheduled to arrive on Tuesday.
 
PC teaches people how to feel offended by minor air vibrations.
 
Real or not... some think it isn't and they are generally the ones guilty of being Politically Correct. :lol:

Thoughts....

Oh I think political correctness is real. I just laugh and shake my head when some on the right think it is exclusively practiced by those on the left, when righties are just as guilty of their own versions of political correctness.

"Can't call a gay marriage a marriage, gotta call it a civil union or else it'll offend all the REAL hetero marriages out there!"

"Can't criticize aspects of my religion or my country, cause if you say anything bad about Jesus or Murica you're an unpatriotic commie atheist hater! And if you don't like it then leave! WAAAH!"
 
I think being pc is starting to become something other than that. Its a term used as a weapon when someone speaks freely what they really think and feel and if it does not mesh with what the majority thinks and feels....the labels come out that you are this or that. Being pc is fine if it means trying to "polite" in expressing oneself without being offensive. It's when being pc turns into one big fat lie that causes the problem. Fear to express. Hesitation to say what one truly feels.
 
Sure it exists, but is that always a bad thing?

You can speak your mind without being wildly politically incorrect IMHO.
 
I bet you are just the kind of cowboy to walk up to these two and ask if the crip could push his wheelchair back so not to block your view.

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Don't be an idiot.

And to expand on that a little. What does a kid in a wheelchair have to do with:

a - entitled people who think that the world owes them anything and,
b - people who think that they have an inalienable right to not be insulted?


I usually tell fat heads who are full themselves to move because their over inflated egos block my view.
 
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No, it's just the notion that people should the treated with respect, even if they are a minority, foreign, or traditionally lack power. Sometimes it's taken to extremes and sometimes people disagree on what is or is not respectful, but the core idea is about treating people well.

By making rules about what is correct and not correct to say and if you say what is not "accepted" you are treated poorly or insulted... seems like curbing free speech to me.
 
By making rules about what is correct and not correct to say and if you say what is not "accepted" you are treated poorly or insulted... seems like curbing free speech to me.

Are you suggesting that society should not have any notions of good ideas or bad ideas? That's the only way that no despicable notions are going to be treated as such. The only rules here are social ones, not laws. Obviously, there are going to be social rules of conduct. We, as a society, deem it unacceptable to use racial slurs against black people. People who violate that rule quite rightly face derision. Is that "curbing free speech"? If it is, then how can the majority hold any opinion and speak it without "curbing" the speech of a minority?

Nearly all of the whining about political correctness is just nasty bigots realizing that their opinions are no longer popular.
 
You're worse than even that.
Extremist, fanatic, maniac, zealot, chauvinist, die hard, doctrinaire, dogmatist, enthusiast, fiend, monomaniac, partisan, persecutor, puritan, sectarian, segregationist, sexist, stickler, and opinionated person, just to name a few on just the bigotry side of things. Prolly a homophobe too. Maybe even a microbe. Personally, I'm glad the PC Police are here to protect me from this junk.

:lol:

What is worse than dealing with a liar? Dealing with the ignorant who lash out blindly at what they don't understand. That would be you... whoever you are. :lol:
 
Are you suggesting that society should not have any notions of good ideas or bad ideas? That's the only way that no despicable notions are going to be treated as such. The only rules here are social ones, not laws. Obviously, there are going to be social rules of conduct. We, as a society, deem it unacceptable to use racial slurs against black people. People who violate that rule quite rightly face derision. Is that "curbing free speech"? If it is, then how can the majority hold any opinion and speak it without "curbing" the speech of a minority?

Nearly all of the whining about political correctness is just nasty bigots realizing that their opinions are no longer popular.

Nearly all are... I agree. I am one of the few who would go out of my way, as most do, to not be offensive, to be sensitive to others, to be empathetic, etc. BUT who also sees that Political Correctness is a tool used to silence what is not popular. I am certainly not advocating that walking around calling mentally challenged people retarded is the right thing to do but demonizing THAT but not admonishing calling a person a ****ing asshole like we see in movie after movie is the essence of curbing free speech because it CLEARLY is not about being polite. Heck, they made a movie called Get Shorty and it was a comedy... how is calling short people shortie polite or sensitive? We all know that a movie called "Get Retard" would be met bomb threats.
 
I don't like it. I remember it started with "chairperson" and just kept going, and now the heart's been pulled out of everything. I don;t that most people like it, and I hope it just runs it's course.

I accidentally said "stewardess" during my last flight to my daughter and a guy showed up and I thought "I am glad nobody heard me"... how stupid is that just because I am older and that WAS THE TERM FOREVER back in the day.
 
Oh I think political correctness is real. I just laugh and shake my head when some on the right think it is exclusively practiced by those on the left, when righties are just as guilty of their own versions of political correctness.

"Can't call a gay marriage a marriage, gotta call it a civil union or else it'll offend all the REAL hetero marriages out there!"

"Can't criticize aspects of my religion or my country, cause if you say anything bad about Jesus or Murica you're an unpatriotic commie atheist hater! And if you don't like it then leave! WAAAH!"

I don't see that as Political Correctness although it is just as bad as Political Correctness...
 
I bet you are just the kind of cowboy to walk up to these two and ask if the crip could push his wheelchair back so not to block your view.

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Question: What does that have to do with Political Correctness?

Answer: It has NOTHING to do with Political Correctness.
 
Nearly all are... I agree. I am one of the few who would go out of my way, as most do, to not be offensive, to be sensitive to others, to be empathetic, etc. BUT who also sees that Political Correctness is a tool used to silence what is not popular. I am certainly not advocating that walking around calling mentally challenged people retarded is the right thing to do but demonizing THAT but not admonishing calling a person a ****ing asshole like we see in movie after movie is the essence of curbing free speech because it CLEARLY is not about being polite. Heck, they made a movie called Get Shorty and it was a comedy... how is calling short people shortie polite or sensitive? We all know that a movie called "Get Retard" would be met bomb threats.

It's not a tool to silence the unpopular. It's a tool to silence the cruel, bigoted, and that which is just plain wrong. It is merely indicative that those things are no longer popular. That which is condemned by political correctness is that which is both unpopular and wrong.
 
It's not a tool to silence the unpopular. It's a tool to silence the cruel, bigoted, and that which is just plain wrong. It is merely indicative that those things are no longer popular. That which is condemned by political correctness is that which is both unpopular and wrong.

So you admit that it is a tool used to curb free speech. Got it.

It's not a tool to silence the unpopular.

That which is condemned by political correctness is that which is both unpopular and wrong

Might want to rethink that one... ;)
 
I accidentally said "stewardess" during my last flight to my daughter and a guy showed up and I thought "I am glad nobody heard me"... how stupid is that just because I am older and that WAS THE TERM FOREVER back in the day.

It was odd being on a flight and seeing a male flight attendant, because in my mom's day they were all young women who looked like models
 
:lol:

What is worse than dealing with a liar? Dealing with the ignorant who lash out blindly at what they don't understand. That would be you... whoever you are. :lol:

I'm worse than that, and a liar too, just for good measure. I'm so bad that even the rest of the bad won't claim me. I do PC stuff just to get away with the bad stuff behind everybody's back.
 
It was odd being on a flight and seeing a male flight attendant, because in my mom's day they were all young women who looked like models

Why would it be odd to see a male flight attendent today when in your mom's day they were women?
 
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