Political Correctness.....maybe!

This PC thing confuses me and I think at times contradicts itself! Isn't it enough to be polite/correct/respectful? Your views?

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[yorksauce]

I think Stewart Lee puts it best when he describes PC "as an often clumsy negotiation towards a more inclusive language", but one that has stopped the lazy recycling of unchallenged prejudices.Sometimes, these can be quite subtle. For example, I'm sure that most old men when they say "my dear" or "pet" to a wife or friend just mean it as a term of affection, but in a different context - for example, a male manager referring to a female manager - it sounds patronising and inappropriate.

[gleegirloz]

I totally see your points and they are extremely valid.Trust me I would never attack equality! I did this ver tongue in cheek and it was more,the outright silly stuff,I had in mind..some of the percieved equality in all thespians being known as actors,I dont see anything wrong with acknowledging gender..person holes,instead of man holes and gingerbread people for gingerbreadmen et al. I too dislike those denigrating words we're well rid of!

[mmmmmarcus]

Im not going to be PC to some asshole calling me a gringo, or a cracker. Why the hell should i respect and tolerate that crap!? Political correctness is a weapon which ultimately ends in genocide. Im not going to just sit here while people tote the double standard around like a fucking religion. As a white male, im the single most hated person on earth. At least in fascist USA.

[gleegirloz]

I agree,it's all gone much too far..not correct,more ridiculous.

[TheBNPrenaissance]

Political Correctness is another Marxist tool/weapon for paralysing or striking fear into westerners who resist the destruction of their country or culture.That is the goal of Marxists and communists, to destroy borders,cultures and nations resulting in their dream of a one world government.

[megaleach]

@yorksauce Trolling 2 year old comments, really?

[TheDustpile]

@TheDustpile ...it was the African tribes who hated each other who organised the slave roundups. But everything's always just whitey's fault.

Plenty of examples abound. Just Google LUNATICS OF THE NEW LABOUR STATE for a roundup on where PC came from, what it does, why it's mind control from literally cradle to grave and how it breeds the inequality it claims to cure.

[TheDustpile]

@yorksauce PC is essentially Marxist, with its mania on 'equality' so extreme that it even rules that schoolkids can't be split off into groups based on learning ability, as that would be 'stigmatic' and 'discriminatory'.

The guilt trips continue unabated as white schoolkids are made to feel a collective guilt over the African slave trade, although all but some of the rich kids' ancestors had nothing to do with it, we were the first to stop it and the last to join and that ... (continued)

[yorksauce]

@megaleach

Wow, you've discovered acronyms. You're so not worth the limbs and functioning organs you were given.

[yorksauce]

@TheDustpile

I don't see what any of this has to do with PC, which was a liberal (and I think, necessary) initiative. It is MARXISTS who believe all property is theft, it is CATHOLICS who peddle the guilt trip you refer to, and the liberal press and media are a lot more balanced than the right-wing media (I hope we never have anything as disgustingly bigoted as FOX here in the UK).

By the way, political correctness was primarily about LANGUAGE.

[TheDustpile]

@yorksauce The politically-correct Left are funny folk. All property is theft (except when it's theirs), all people are of equal worth (except the ones they want to constantly guilt-trip for the sins of the fathers) and all points of view are valid and worthy of protection (except those they don't like).

Very unequal these 'Equality' people!

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[TheDustpile]

The politically-correct Left are funny folk. All property is theft (except when it's theirs), all people are of equal worth (except the ones they want to constantly guilt-trip for the sins of the fathers) and all points of view are valid and worthy of protection (except those they don't like).

Very unequal these 'Equality' people!

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[wolfieman2003]

People who preach Political Correctness tend to be not very intelligent and lack the basics of common sense. I find PC offensive and patronising and will NEVER be PC. The best way to deal with this 'crap' is to ignore it, ridicule iit and teach others not to be PC.

[yorksauce]

As I say, I can see the thinking behind "actor", but there are examples of PC (or rather inclusiveness) going too far. There was an "inclusive" sitcom in Britain which starred a boy in a wheelchair who could not speak or move. You heard his thoughts as a voiceover. For me, this completely backfired, as the boy just seemed like a hopeless object in the context. Being able to speak and move are unfortunately minimum requirements for an actor.