Political Correctness

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What you’re describing isn’t racism. But the depictions of the dim-witted dad in sitcoms have also come under scrutiny, and there are talks about how it’s problematic.

Thankfully you have tons and tons and tons of other examples of the white middle class father to look to. South-Asians don’t. You didn’t read everything I said, it seems. But I’m sorry fr your white fragility. It’s patently absurd that you think your example is comparable to what they’re saying about Apu. But, that’s what happens when you won’t walk a mile in someone else’s skin.
 
Do you really find that to be the case, though?

Just as one popular example, I see a lot more tearing-out of hair about people who don’t say “Merry Christmas” than about people who do.

Conservative Christians have our own shibboleths and habits of “virtue signaling,” our own version of “political correctness” in the negative sense, and we can be just as sensitive and shrill about it as the most self-righteous college freshman on Tumblr.
 
political correctness is a negative tool used by liberals and the democrat party which is in turn feared by the republican party which does not know how to use it at all.
 
In my experience, the simple term “Political Correctness” has become a pejorative. For some reason civility and charity in word and in deed is now seen by some as a bad thing by those of a certain political stripe.
 
It’s not unique to liberals. Try wishing “Happy Holidays” to a right-wing snowflake before sitting down during the national anthem.
 
Yes, I do. The mere fact that it even gets discussed is ridiculous. I didn’t say people flip their lids - I said that you can’t walk around on eggshells.

I know some of it is hype. But where there’s smoke there’s some fire. Even just hearing about it gets old. The hype should disappear - but it doesn’t.

I’m not sensitive. I tell everyone “Merry Christmas” because I mean it. I lived in Saudi and didn’t lose my mind when I got told “Eid Al Adha”.
 
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Apu was created to mock stereotypes and racism. Our society has taken such an anti-intellectual bent that irony and nuance fly over everyone’s heads.
 
I don’t want to offend anyone on purpose but I’m not going out of my way to not offend either…you know what I mean.
I guess I’m just an unapologetic American! 🇺🇸😄
 
Yes. Virtue policing. Because it’s bogus that my saying “Merry Christmas” to someone who takes offense is somehow my fault and I’m meant to be able to read their mind - or just say nothing.

To put it blunt, it’s stupid.
 
When I think of political correctness, I think of those who are offended by “cultural appropriation” or BBC dropping the use of the terms Before Christ (BC) and Anno Domini (AD) and replacing it with before common era/common era, The push to remove God from the pledge of allegiance to please others. Getting riled up for someone saying “you fight like a girl”. Believing EVERYTHING is sexist. Those who get offended for calling someone a woman who is a woman but claims to be “genderless” but doesn’t even have gender dysphoria. The list goes on and on. This isn’t about the use of the word “retarded” because that is a genuine concern. This is more about even being afraid to voice your opinion for fear of being considered a “bigot”.

Sadly this is how a democracy runs. The majority thought takes control of others.
 
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TheLittleLady said:
In my experience, the simple term “Political Correctness” has become a pejorative. For some reason civility and charity in word and in deed is now seen by some as a bad thing by those of a certain political stripe.
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Yep! Exactly right. Pejorative.
 
Hello.

I think it’s positive in that it gets some of us to think before we open our mouth or keyboards.

I think it’s negative in that it’s dangerous for some groups of people, especially those in power, to think they can regulate how & what people think and how they express themselves.

My two cents…
 
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Apu was created to mock stereotypes and racism. Our society has taken such an anti-intellectual bent that irony and nuance fly over everyone’s heads.
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You do realize that things that were good intentions can totally miss the mark, right? In other words, good intentions can have unintended consequences.

There is nothing anti-intellectual about acknowledging this. Actually, the idea that good intentions justify anything is simplistic and therefore anti-intellectual.
 
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People don’t have to look up to who look like them. In fact, it would be better if people chose their role models for things other than outward appearances.

I have never looked to many female characters on TV or in real life, not for lack of represention: they just aren’t appealing. A lot of them espouse politics I’m against or are just Hermione Granger clones. But, I’m not going to demand such characters be taken off the air. It would be more productive to create shows with alternative characters instead of taking something away that a lot of people enjoy.
 
or watch them when a Confederate statue they never even knew existed is taken down.
 
Or California sending kids home for flag tshirts.

Or “Song of the South” being banned (the Uncle Remus stories were written by a black author AFTER the Civil War, and in the stories Uncle Remus speaks in the vernacular.)

Or people saying the computer terms “master” and “slave” are derogatory in nature.

Or the fact that in 2007 in Australia Santas couldn’t say “ho ho ho”.

Or the bus driver who stopped a school bus to tell a child that disagreeing with Obama’s views on abortion is intolerant.

Or the fact that the US Army knew the Ft Hood shooter, Major Hasan, was spreading anti-American rhetoric before the shooting, but they didn’t want to be accused of “profiling”. He was even cited by coworkers as being a ticking time bomb. In this case PC killed 13 people.

All of this is accurate, and it all happened. It’s easily searchable.

This is the kind of garbage it creates. The extreme.

It is destroying the concept of free speech - because it’s free as long as the other person isn’t offended.
 
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Or, just last week, a man in Scotland, Count Dankula, almost went to prison because he posted a video on YouTube of him teaching his girlfriend’s dog to give a Nazi salute and react excitedly to “gas the Jews” to piss off his girlfriend who always talks about how cute her little dog is. Nobody reported him because they were offended by it: the authorities themselves deemed it to be offensive. Jewish community leaders in the U.K. even gave their support to Count Dankula. Last time I checked, he got off with a 800 pound fine.

What political correctness ultimately leads to is the squashing of free speech and the authorities themselves deciding what is or is not offensive, even if nobody complains.
 
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