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Originally Posted by jammies
It's idiotic when you use the same arguments as idiots. Arguing something being "too PC" is what idiots do. I'm not sure I can make this more explicit, I am not saying you can't argue against bad ideas, I'm saying calling something PC is not a good argument.
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If you've read the last couple of pages and still can't figure out precisely what my argument is, I don't know that there's any point in continuing. But just for the sake of clarity, it is this.
Political correctness, as a concept, involves altering the way we talk about certain topics to avoid offending certain groups of people. When taken to its extreme, however, it has been used to prevent certain subjects from being discussed at all, or worse, for factually incorrect dogma to take precedence over reality, in order to spare people offense or discomfort or cognitive dissonance.
This culminates in a weird moral community where everyone is afraid of transgressing any boundary that anyone might set up for fear of causing offense unintentionally, no matter how benign the comment was intended to be.
Further, suddenly being offended has some currency, and this is exploited to suppress viewpoints that one doesn't agree with ab initio - some of which viewpoints are likely worthy of rejection, but others that may not be. Because of this, everyone's essentially competing for a higher victimhood score, to demonstrate their lack of privilege and grant them entitlement to speak more authoritatively on certain important social topics while dismissing the views of others for reasons other than the merit of those views.
This is a
mess. It's obviously well intentioned in theory - not causing offense to people is a laudable goal. But it's taken on a life of its own, and resulted in some really bad ideas being advanced as being ideologically pure and righteous, and people who question this dogma are cast as on the same side as the bigots, as if any criticism is tantamount to a desire to just be an #######... as you're implying now by saying this is "what idiots do".
If this isn't resonating with you, well, it's the best effort I'm willing to make in this medium to get you to see my perspective, so there's not much point in continuing.