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In reply to the discussion: Political correctness, good or bad? [View all]BainsBane
(57,680 posts)on the EXTREME right, with white supremacist groups, and has now filtered down to people who consider themselves liberals. The idea that whites, and white men in particular, are oppressed by women and people of color because they have to share the public sphere with us and are asked to take our concerns into account threatens their privilege, and they hate it. It appears to me to have grown more pronounced under the Obama presidency, since conservative whites now feel victim to an African-American President and a Democratic Party that represents the interests of all Americans. Fox news advances that idea frequently, and now we see it displayed among people who do not consider themselves conservative.
As for this particular OP, the polling questions are absurd. They reflect no effort to think about what politically correct means or to problematize the issues surrounding the terms and the kind of language it evokes. I, therefore, did not vote at all.