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Ok, I looked it up on Amazon, and it looks very interesting. It's scheduled to arrive on Tuesday.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.
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....
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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Two people had different opinions. News at nine.
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.
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.
Yes and it's a disease.
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.
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.
Got that right! Its an epidemic! Having to live with political correctness is driving me out of my mind
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 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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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.
That which is condemned by political correctness is that which is both unpopular and wrong
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.
Real or not... some think it isn't and they are generally the ones guilty of being Politically Correct. :lol:
Thoughts....
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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 serious?Nice deflection... :lol:
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
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