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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
In this case, devout treating people with respect doctrinaires demand all sorts of crazy things, e.g. medical professionals can't give medical advice if it'll upset someone, professors of classical literature can't teach Ovid because of the presence of sexual assault in the narrative, evolutionary biologists can't write papers describing inherent differences in the behaviours of women and men, or the classic cultural relativist schtick that the moral practices of other cultures can't be criticized because to do so would be somehow insensitive or racist. When someone then says that treating people with respect is resulting in some highly objectionable, and in some cases batcrap insane edicts, they'll then retreat to the motte: "But treating people with respect just means treating people with respect!"
Then once everyone agrees that treating everyone with respect is a good thing - because that's obvious, and no one short of a sociopath would object to that statement - the proponents can go back to calling people misogynists for suggesting that the phrase "rape culture" is a bit much.
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