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Rock on number 2
Being politically correct is overrated. Requiring people be “PC” is asking them to hide their true feelings in favor of popular sentiments. I’m not suggesting anyone should ever go out their way to be purposefully mean and hurt someone else’s feelings, but if you feel strongly about a subject, and your opinion differs from the popular opinion, you should express. Only close-minded jerks would dare to silence you. After all, if they are so “PC” and open-minded, they will respect the diversity of your opinion.
I find it really sad that the idea that you should take care with the words you choose and not use slurs and insults has become such an insulted idea simply because it was called “Politically correct.”
On the plus side, people feel more free at insulting being PC in public while they reserve their use of slurs for private moments, which means I have an early warning system for people to be careful around.
I don’t think that slurs, particularly those of the racial type (are there any other?) is being un-PC. I think that what this person is talking about is being able to express an opinion that might upset someone, and that being un-PC. Racial slurs are just plain hateful, ignorant, and ridiculous. If you can’t express an opinion about something without using an ugly word, then your opinion is likely not very intelligent to begin with.
And that is my un-PC opinion.
Um… I hate to tell you but… nothing you said was un-PC.
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It’s a shame that the folks posting and leaving comments on SL Post Secret feel that political correctness is forcing them to hide their true feelings in favor of popular sentiments. Must be a terrible burden to feel you don’t have the freedom to be a big honking bigot. And you there, Holden Caulfield, any time you want to have an original idea, that would be awesome.
I think the phrase “politically correct” gets thrown around without defining what it means. In my view, using PC language means making an effort to avoid biased, offensive and objectionable terms for people and groups. It does not mean stifling my opinions about people’s actions or ideologies.
Just as it’s good manners not to call someone by a nickname if they ask you not to use the nickname, it’s good manners to call people as they wish to be called. Political correctness is basic good manners.
When the phrase “politically correct” first came into common usage, George Will wrote a satiric column mocking it and said pretty soon short people will be called vertically challenged, etc. For some people incapable of recognizing satire, they took that seriously and a flood of foolishness ensued from a few adopting his satiric suggestions to the anti-PC insisting that those satiric ideas were actual practice.
However, the worst result is those who insist that that common courtesy and good manners are censorship and defiantly use words that offend people and think it shows they are brave. Of course, all it shows is that they are rude. And in my opinion, that whole “i am not going to be censored by the PC Police” is a screen. They are bigots but refuse to own their bigotry and instead claim their bigotry as some sort of example of personal courage.
#1…i am SO with you on that…but remember, those “sl mean girls” are the girl who in rl are so insecure and unhappy that the only way the can seem to find their personal power is through being mean on sl…
So folks who aren’t PC are bigots? I choose not to be censored by the “PC” crap because it’s ridiculous and stupid, not because I’m a bigot.
We can replace words all day long, that is not going to make people stop THINKING that way and keep them from using those same words against everyone. Changing words doesn’t change thoughts and IMO it’s a waste of time and far from intelligent to find another “new” word to replace the other “new” one that is now an insult. Linguists call it the euphemism treadmill. A word is used for a while until it becomes used offensively, at which point it is dropped and replaced with a gentler-sounding term. These “nicer” words are used only until they also gain a negative connotation. And they always will gain that negativity because what they are describing is seen as negative.
For example, the word lame was used as a neutral term for centuries to mean anyone who was physically challenged. It then gave way to the word crippled, which was adjusted to the word handicapped, which then yielded to disabled. Finally, the word disabled itself came to to have a negative connotation, and “differently abled” is now used in its stead.
Instead of running on this treadmill, replacing one word with another until it becomes negative, more could be achieved by removing the stigma of the term rather than by disguising its meaning in order to be “nice” and we’d at least be being honest with ourselves and others instead of hiding behind “approved” terms.
my mom bought a treadmill that is motor driven, i still prefer to jog and run the old fashioned way.-;’