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"Political Correctness" is the current rallying call of partisan politics.
From Wikipedia: Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct, commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term primarily used as a pejorative to describe language, policies, or measures which are intended not to offend or disadvantage any particular group of people in society; in pejorative usage, those who use the term are generally implying that these policies are excessive.
On the one side, you have the Dems and their supporters...it's about hurt feelings. We don't want to hurt their feelings even though sometimes it seems more along the line of a "solution" looking for a cause...
We can't name a team "Washington Redskins"... because that is somehow demeaning. Suggested alternatives don't seem to hit the mark - for example Paleo-pigmented Indiginous American Warriors has a certain zing but is too much of a mouthful for the average fan to cheer in a stadium rally.
Not that the left is alone in utilizing Political Correctness for their cause - Freedom Fries comes to mind.
On the other side you have the Repubs and their supporters...it's about hurt feelings. We have a right to hurt your feelings so suck it up.
I always wonder about that "right" and how it is conflated with "free speech". The attitude seems to be - we have a right to behave in a bigoted fashion without being called out in it - racist, anti-semite, islamophobe, misogynist. The implication is - being called out on it, is the enforcement of "political correctness" - that the "right to free speech" means there is no recipricol right in return to denounce it because that would be "political correctness".
Political correctness can and has gone to ridiculous extremes but it's opposite side, the anti-political correctness faction is just as extreme. What used to be called "good manners", common decency has become "political correctness" and something to be denounced. And it's politics.
From Wikipedia: Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct, commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term primarily used as a pejorative to describe language, policies, or measures which are intended not to offend or disadvantage any particular group of people in society; in pejorative usage, those who use the term are generally implying that these policies are excessive.
On the one side, you have the Dems and their supporters...it's about hurt feelings. We don't want to hurt their feelings even though sometimes it seems more along the line of a "solution" looking for a cause...
We can't name a team "Washington Redskins"... because that is somehow demeaning. Suggested alternatives don't seem to hit the mark - for example Paleo-pigmented Indiginous American Warriors has a certain zing but is too much of a mouthful for the average fan to cheer in a stadium rally.
Not that the left is alone in utilizing Political Correctness for their cause - Freedom Fries comes to mind.
On the other side you have the Repubs and their supporters...it's about hurt feelings. We have a right to hurt your feelings so suck it up.
I always wonder about that "right" and how it is conflated with "free speech". The attitude seems to be - we have a right to behave in a bigoted fashion without being called out in it - racist, anti-semite, islamophobe, misogynist. The implication is - being called out on it, is the enforcement of "political correctness" - that the "right to free speech" means there is no recipricol right in return to denounce it because that would be "political correctness".
Political correctness can and has gone to ridiculous extremes but it's opposite side, the anti-political correctness faction is just as extreme. What used to be called "good manners", common decency has become "political correctness" and something to be denounced. And it's politics.
