What does politically correct mean to you?

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If we go by the early definitions then Stalin's Russia was a politically correct regime as is North Korea.

It was less about being unoffensive politically and more the singular political narrative, but they have the latter in common.

However are these old and new definitions really that different? One is softer the other is harder in implementation, however both attempt shut down debate by creating a taboo around certain subjects. Not based on what the positions are, but simply by straying outside of an accepted narrative.

The 'new think' part is accepting the only possible 'truth', which often it adherents couldn't possibly know nor to they hope to find out.

Oh so you hate women then, and puppies, and babies.

I'm ok with puppies, but I couldn't eat a whole one.

Lol

I take you have heard of the 'Frankfurt school' and 'critical theory'

Another dumbed-down political buzzword to avoid like the plague...

To me PC means changing words and replacing them with other words and changing the past to avoid offending others which is a bad idea IMO because then it makes our history inaccurate then and no one will ever know how things really used to be. It also means censoring out comedy to cater to the audience who can't change channels or make the choice about what shows to not watch and also because some people can't take a joke. Yeah I know sometimes bad experience will make you more sensitive but then again there are people out there with PTSD and they have triggers but they certainly don't expect everyone to bend over backwards for them like what if someone was sensitive to the color red due to trauma, they are not going to try and make the color red illegal and try and pass a law about the color red and force everyone to repaint their red cars or their home and get rid of anything red outside their home. I feel that is what people who take offense to try and do. I believe if something is offensive, go somewhere else but don't try and censor it.

Not being able what to say what you'd actually like to say, because it may offend people, even though everyone else is thinking the same thing and knows it.

It means mob mentality. The collective telling the individual to comply. No surprise, then, that governments love fomenting this social expectation among the "useful idiot" class.

Why aren't more autistic people criminally minded? I believe that autistic crime is low compared to the general population, but why? I think it's because most autistics don't associate with criminal scum, and many have a code that inhibits criminality. Are there pull factors that cause autistic people to be criminal, or are they the same as the general population?

I want to write a thread about Black Lives Matter, but I think I'd get a banning. Basically, I think they are whining crybabies that can't respect law.

In the modern western context, political correctness serves a progressive agenda. Western progressives are against most forms of bigotry. This is good, but, whatever else is meant by progressive, it's also a kit bag of persuasive techniques used by interest groups to manipulate the public into accepting what they would not accept were they to reflect on it with the full light of reason, and without coercion.

Last edited by Nebogipfel on 26 Mar 2016, 3:54 pm, edited 2 times in total.

It's the left-wing version of right-wing "family values". Personally, I can't stand either.

i think it's just being considerate unless it's taken to extremes.

Outside of totalitarian social prescriptions, like with communist Russia or North Korea, it tends to be a prescription aimed less at finding truth than stifling certain societal behavioral tendencies that are seen as worse than the medicine being applied to them. It's really a 'ends justify the means' tactic that doesn't show a whole lot of faith in human capacity for critical thinking and self correction - for right or for wrong.

According to George Carlin Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be manners...

I don't really like political correctness, I think the intentions are good, but it doesn't work in reality.

People start wanting everything THEY find offensive banned, and that is just stupid.

This.