Silentpony said:
Oh yeah, no. Not at all what I meant to say. There are total shitheels on both sides of the pro/anti PC divide, absolutely. And both sides could be considered bigoted. Its just the non-PC people who wash their hands of the whole business I consider to not be bigots.
Which is stupid. Most times being 'politically correct' is simply being pleasant, diplomatic, or open -minded enough to at least not pretend your opinion needs to be spewed out over those with primary evidence or that it's not at all productive to simply dislike peope over what ridiculous emotional, social, or cultural baggage you and your parents persist to make a thing in the world.
And no, that is not some new fangdangled definition of politically correct. That's how it's always been. That you treat people as people with inalienable rights to their self-construction and existence, and you remind yourself that prejudices that inadvertantly turn individuals of some ethnic, LGBTQ, or religious group into some amorphous statement of humanity ultimately has nothing to do with them ... it has everything to do with
you.
... or as Becker puts it;
I suggest you watch it
all. Because his statements easily pass for anybody pretends tha PC is some Nazi regime, or that being PC is somehow bigoted. Being PC is solely about reminding yourself not making generalizations on gender, or age, or racial expression. That's all it ever meant. It was about recognising that humans are fallible and unless we seek to modify our behaviour, be better people, then we get nowhere and that we default to genuinely unpleasant people to others .... entitled, lazy, and selfish.
Being 'PC' is like making sure you put your trash in the bin, or you don't play music with all your windows open, or you don't smoke on a friend's couch if they hate the smell of tobacco. Evolving rules of cordial coexistence. Nothing more. You certainly don't pretend you're somehow immune to being called an arsehole if you choose to make other people's lives worse for your personal belief how much couches are designed for smoking on.
So much so the term only gained traction when religious conservatives in the 90s pretending people calling them out as arseholes because of their espoused homophobia and transphobia, and other points of 1st grader reasoning with Biblical insanity, was somehow wrong. Which is why you had people in the 90s turn it on those religious conservative whackos who used it as such. Only witless morons have recycled the term yet again to use it as a complaint about people calling them arseholes, committing the same garbage rhetoric as the stuff you're pumping out right now as they did 30 years ago.
We've not merely come full circle, we've had to stop off at the mechanic for standard servicing and inspection to get our pink slip. Apparently we're so attached to it as a vehicle for 'discourse' that being an arsehole isn't necessarily a refutation of a First Amendment thing, but a social thing, that we're going to be taking this puppy for a spin again.
It's not about PC vs. Anti-PC ... it's about the entitled and the retarded complaining about people who don't share the belief others serve as a floormat for people's egos. And there are legitimate criticisms of this, but none of it I have ever heard from anybody who bandied about 'PC' unironically. It's the same shit I heard when I was growing up from bullies thinking religion is immutable, but my sense of self wasn't. Circular logic and childlike tautologies of thought, and anybody that thinks those that stand up to these reductive reasoning bullies are 'PC police' can kiss my ass, too.
The best way to describe 'being PC'? It's about making sure life doesn't turn into a Youtube comments section. Where discourse and discussion is merely transformed into hateful diatribes and ponderous illiteracy of thought and noise.