Political Correctness

[KevinM1]

Be polite in public.  What a hard thing to grasp.  Seriously, everyone was taught this shit as a kid, and now it's a big deal.

You don't want to be jumped on for your opinion or your joke or whatever?  Then have some general awareness of your surroundings and audience.  To butcher Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park: "Everyone was so busy with the idea that they could share their thoughts, no one stopped to ask if they should."

This is a non-issue to anyone with a functioning sense of how to act in the public sphere.

Do you believe political correctness can go too far though? And where would that line be for you.

I honestly don't know. Nearly every time someone whines about political correctness run amuck, it tends to be a situation where someone does or says something shitty, gets a justifiably negative response to it, and then complains that the response is unjustified.

Are there some overreactions to things? Of course, but it's not limited to those who believe political correctness is okay (see: the overreaction to Colin Kaepernick and NFL players kneeling during the national anthem). Are there some people just looking for an excuse to complain about things, no matter how small or unimportant? Again, of course, but that's also not limited to political correctness.

But none of that means that political correctness - which, really, is just "Hey, some of the things you say and do are actually prejudiced against marginalized groups of people. Stop it." - is bad.

Then again, I'm one of those weirdos that doesn't have a problem with safe spaces. I mean, this forum is a safe space for atheists, right? We can be open and free about our unbelief, free from (most) threats regarding it. I don't see an appreciable difference between an internet safe space and one IRL.