(December 15, 2015 at 1:22 pm)TheRealJoeFish Wrote: But I don't think "political correctness" is a thing. I think it's a term that lets us use less nuance and make discourse more divisive and promotes both intellectual dishonesty (by people who say "be politically correct!") and needless bigotry (by people who say "don't be politically correct!"), both of which are bad but easy.
Firstly, PC is certainly a thing -- and abstract thing that see concrete usage. Secondly equating PC with intellectual dishonesty or non-PC with needless bigotry are both equivalences which need support. Are you really saying that people who prefer blunt speech are automatically bigots?
