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Showing Original Post only (View all)Political correctness, good or bad? [View all]
I tend to be a very liberal when it comes to speech and expression. That doesn't mean I run around using filthy or rude language, far from it, but that it doesn't bother me to read it or I don't have a fit or faint due to hearing or reading something deemed "offensive". PC in a way, makes people dishonest because social pressure stops them from saying what they really think. At least if they say what they think and are honest, then it is easy to understand they are jerks or racists or whatever. If they are trying to be PC, it can allow them to hide behind it in a way, by cloaking their true feelings. Anyway, I know my take is a bit unusual, and probably not the same as most here. But I was interested in making a poll to find out!
32 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited | |
I love political correctness! | |
0 (0%) |
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I think PC is a good thing in general, but can go too far sometimes. | |
4 (13%) |
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I\'m lukewarm toward the whole concept. | |
3 (9%) |
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I think PC is an artificial social construct that just promotes dishonesty. | |
7 (22%) |
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I am strongly against the concept of political correctness in general. | |
16 (50%) |
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Other (explain, if you would) | |
2 (6%) |
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How dare you make this poll! Questioning PC is a grave offense, you are being a disloyal citizen! | |
0 (0%) |
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0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
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I know..... Go fuck yourself! You're right this feels liberating. nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Mar 2013
#29
The word-police wars are one of the favorite ratfucking techniques used by the trolls.
backscatter712
Mar 2013
#4
As an animal rights activist, I find your use of the term "ratfucking" highly offensive.
Nye Bevan
Mar 2013
#63
i view them as human beings, but I'm also aware that there are social structures in
fishwax
Mar 2013
#160
Most people who hate PC are just mad they can't tell racist and/or sexist jokes.
denverbill
Mar 2013
#27
Every single person I know who whines about political correctness is racist and/or sexist, period.
denverbill
Mar 2013
#107
Political correctness is a term the use of which in America was invented by the extreme RW
baldguy
Mar 2013
#13
Perhaps these angry white male Republicans and other angry white males complain because ...
spin
Mar 2013
#73
Look at the poll results--most DUers (likely heavily white and y-chromosomed)
geek tragedy
Mar 2013
#39
I'm always baffled when anyone other than the site owners claims any kind of insight
Nye Bevan
Mar 2013
#69
"I think PC is an artificial social construct that just promotes dishonesty."
LittleBlue
Mar 2013
#36
Generally the people being described get to determine whether it's offensive or not.
geek tragedy
Mar 2013
#54
Yes, most white males, who aren't, by condition of birth, vulnerable to insult & bigotry
whathehell
Mar 2013
#139
dishonest? tell me how many people you have seen faint because of a word used. nt
seabeyond
Mar 2013
#53
Not sure. Here in Mississippi its considered "politicaly correct" to call African-Americans "black"
Rowdyboy
Mar 2013
#56
Walking in to a room of tall, physically fit black athletes and saying, "What's up my Negroes?"
Herlong
Mar 2013
#67
Something is offensive if I find it offensive, and it's politically incorrect
geek tragedy
Mar 2013
#118
There's a big difference between being a bigot and resisting excessive PCness.
Nye Bevan
Mar 2013
#128
I think 'PC' basically means good manners and etiquette, extended to the less powerful groups
LeftishBrit
Mar 2013
#158