Political Correctness

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There’s no hate speech exception to the First Amendment. Hate speech is free speech.
 
“There’s no exception for hate speech under the First Amendment’s protection for freedom of expression, unless the speech is direct, personal, and either truly threatening or violently provocative.”
 
Isn’t calling someone a racial slur unprotected under the first amendment? That’s direct and personal.
 
It’s not illegal in and of itself. If you combine if with a direct threat you could probably be charged with a hate crime, or harassment if you persist.
 
The world in many ways has become worse and I don’t think it’s any coincidence that political correctness is on the same trajectory. It’s more akin to a disease and suitable for a dystopian society.
 
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The dog trainer? I don’t see it either.

Actually, training someone else’s dog to do something for the purpose of annoying the owner seems like interfering with their property rights regardless whether what you train them to do is harmful or offensive.
 
Political correctness is far less prevalent in The Netherlands. The Dutch are known to be very frank, likely more than any ethnic group in the word. Some outsiders often find it to be rude. But I think this is just a reflection of their straightforward, no-nonsense practical way of doing things. I find it refreshing.
 
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There are fairly strict hate speech laws in The Netherlands, so you can’t be that frank.
 
Yes, it is. But good luck defending the use of those words in the court of public opinion. Unless they are direct at minority conservatives, I guess…
 
That’s good. But, how strict are speech laws? A man almost went to jail in the UK over a joke and I’m wondering how the rest of Europe is in regards to freedom of speech.
 
It’s negative in its modern form.

It’s a false and poor attempt at morality and ethics.
 
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Positive? It is an emotional, mental, spiritual, intellectual black hole. Much worse than the 80s or 90s too, a lot dumber and more bitter.
 
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That’s right, there’s liberal and there’s “Liberal.” It’s the capital-L Liberals who are responsible for the neo-fascism of the left.

When I was in University, there was one Christian girl who was already married at about 22, had taken her husband’s name, and planned to finish only a 4-year degree because she wanted children. I witnessed an argument where another girl said she “wasn’t really feminist” and was saying she was just going to be her husband’s property and stuff like that.

Now, I’m actually left-leaning. I liked Bernie Sanders over Hillary and Trump, for example. I’m very much for civil liberty-- if someone is gay, for example, that’s between them and God, and I don’t have to be their judge. I favor giving Latinos who grew up in America a clear and easy path to citizenship, because I don’t feel that we should horde the good luck that God has given to certain countries.

But PC correctness is a plague on freedom. If someone was against gay marriage, or against certain immigration policies, I wouldn’t want to use social pressure to mock and humiliate them, to get them fired, or to damage their business-- I’d debate them!
 
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I was just curious how people on this site feel about the wave of political correctness we’re living in. Do you guys think it’s a positive or a negative?
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I think in the long run, it’s damaging. People should be convinced to do things because it’s the right / moral thing to do. Not out of fear of attack.

The PC police is a form of tyranny
 
Political correctness makes me nervous. What we say affects how we look at things, and terms are so powerful. I am aghast at the use of the offensive term “Negro”. Yet I have heard many educated black people use that term. (I am a white lady from the South.) And it bothers me to be always wondering if I am “up on the latest” terminology. I just had to look up what the last letter in LGBTQ stood for, and I thought that was supposed to be offensive too. I think I will just give up trying to get it “right” and hope for the best. I really liked it better when we used the technical and dictionary words for things - less guessing, less prying my foot out of my mouth.
 
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