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I don't understand what anti-PC people mean when they say they're anti-PC. Back in the 90s, political correctness was the "people first, description second" sort of language, like "woman of color" or "sight-challenged" instead of blind. Today, people who rail about PC-ness just seem to want to be jerks without being criticized for it. People are going to be offended no matter what you do, but it's not necessary to try to be deliberately offensive.
If someone is truly blind, and cannot see, they are not "sight challenged"...seeing is not a challenging event. They cannot see at all.
Now, some have very limited eyesight.
Calling them "sight challenged" is nothing positive. Just words. If you gave them an operation so they had vision, or better vision, that would be "positive".
I don't understand. I think that Western society accepts that any opinion is acceptable.
Then please explain your topic.
You're contradicting yourself.
Go ahead and hate whoever you like. Hopefully, it won't affect me; but hatred has a way of hurting a lot of people.
It hurts the person who hates (bigots) most of all.
Don't complain when people point it out. After all, you wouldn't want them to be PC.
If someone is truly blind, and cannot see, they are not "sight challenged"...seeing is not a challenging event. They cannot see at all.
Now, some have very limited eyesight.
Calling them "sight challenged" is nothing positive. Just words. If you gave them an operation so they had vision, or better vision, that would be "positive".
George Carlin has a bit where he talks about words and the subtle power that slightly modifying a word or two...... how the whole subtext and be slightly slanted.
A perfect example is calling illegal aliens immigrants.
Takes the negative spin off of it doesn't it, or at least it tries to.........
Bigotry is hatred. It has nothing to do with PC - other than it is considered ignorant to spout bigoted hatred.
People have biases and preferences and bigoted tendencies . . . it might serve to investigate the origins . . . were these ideas handed down from ancestors? Do they serve you in your current life? Are they in line with your values (example: "Christians" who hate atheists, gay people, abortion doctors, whatever) . . .
Then please explain your topic.
You're contradicting yourself.
Go ahead and hate whoever you like. Hopefully, it won't affect me; but hatred has a way of hurting a lot of people.
It hurts the person who hates (bigots) most of all.
Don't complain when people point it out. After all, you wouldn't want them to be PC.
I lived for much in my life in a Western society, and we think that whilst bigotry is wrong, we have a right to be so. I don't hate anybody, but I have biases as do all persons.
I simply think differently. I simply believe that if we in the West value a free society, then this extends to what we can believe or adhere to. I don't think we should ban opinions (for one, what defines a good opinion/belief)?
It's a fine line between being PC and being concerned with the ethical treatment of people who are not like you.
To me, the line gets crossed when someone who takes such pride in his or her piety that they cannot suppress the desire to parse every word that comes out your mouth and then lecture you on how they interpreted what you said.
I submit a motion to move this thread to the political forum.
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