Political Correctness

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

Could you give an example of what that would be?

Well I gave mine earlier in the thread. Imagine working in an office, you are extra super on good behavior, g rated humor, minimal flirting, etc. If the political correctness of an office environment leaked into normal life, into entertainment or comedy and everything about our regular behavior was expected to behave like the rules of an office, all G rated and sanitary, that would be too far for me personally.

I'd imagine other people have different threshholds, but

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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.

I don't think that's all political correctness is, see my office example. It's about a type of behavior, a way of speaking. When people say 'oh it's just not saying racial slurs' that's just not true. If it were, than we are living in a politically correct society already.

There is obviously scales to it, from just not dropping N-bombs would be like, a 1 on the politically correct scale to totally censored 1984 style societies where they never said anything other than what was officially permitted to talk about and nobody was ever offended that would be a 10. So you should be able to identify somewhere in the middle where it's too much for you.

Not offending people is impossible anyway let, since people are offended by different things and there are 7 billion of us. Some people are so easy to offend. Should one have to censor their speech to not offend the most sensitive of groups.