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I'd be more interested in a more granular analysis of what people are actually talking about. Do they think that not being able to call a mentally challenged person a ###### or not being able to call a homosexual person a fag without sounding like an idiot is a real problem? Or do they just dislike the vague idea of political correctness?
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There's a difference between calling people 'fags' and worrying if you're going to be scolded for missing the latest letter in the LGBTQ acronym chain. I'd wager the great majority of people who don't use the word 'fag' are also puzzled by the distinctions of the various letters in LGBTQ, and resent the presumption that everyone in polite society has a moral obligation to be up on the latest terms and taboos that emerge from activist culture.
There's a treadmill of language around social issues that never ends. It emerges from academia and then is rapidly adopted by progressive activists as a signal that they're alert and responsive to the latest thing. It's like any other kind of jargon - it's main purpose is to identity yourself as a fellow-traveller who is in the know. And once the jargon becomes mainstream, the tribe creates new jargon, because like all cutting-edge fashion, the whole point is to distinguish yourself from muggles.
As the article remarks:
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The study should also make progressives more self-critical about the way in which speech norms serve as a marker of social distinction. I don’t doubt the sincerity of the affluent and highly educated people who call others out if they use “problematic” terms or perpetrate an act of “cultural appropriation.” But what the vast majority of Americans seem to see—at least according to the research conducted for “Hidden Tribes”—is not so much genuine concern for social justice as the preening display of cultural superiority.
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There's a reason only 25 per cent of black Americans self-identify as liberal.
As for dismissing the article because it doesn't define political correctness, I'll leave this comment from reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/c...ctness/e7jg3pg