What does being " Politically Correct" mean to you?

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WhiteSteve · Accepted Answer

It’s about people trying to tell me who I can and can’t work with😒 (jk🤣)….

https://www.youtube.com/embed/A72YwLvvqSU

In seriousness…. its kind of a dated term these days, at least where I live. People more say things are “woke” now, which isn’t what woke even originally meant, but that’s another topic for another day, haha

But I’d say it’s a buzzword to encompass a greater societal endeavor to be kind, respectful, and inclusive, to everyone, particularly in a country as diverse as America. Like anything else, it can be misused or taken too far, but the general spirit of it is supposed to be positive.

The American Constitution guarantees our citizens the right to free speech, which is great in many senses. But there are unfortunately some people who really want to abuse that right as a permission slip to say any old thing that should rightfully get you punched in the face.

Whether that’s allowed under the Constitution is debatable; but I’m pretty sure the authors of it didn’t make the rule in the spirit of fostering unbridled shit-talking to anyone random person or group of people in an otherwise hopefully polite society. It was most likely to ensure you couldn’t be beheaded in the town square for shit-talking the government like you could’ve been under King George III of England whose rule they just fought a war to free themselves from being under.

Simply put: a green light for bigotry or whatever other piss-poor attitudes to decide to burden society with is a weird way to interpret it.

I think if I have a beef with political correctness, it’d be that they won’t just settle on what proper terminology is. It keeps changing😒😂

Like that video I posted…thats not PC, but as someone who is mostly PC-by-accident-just-by-way-of-not-wanting -to-be-a-jerk, “retard” doesn’t bother me. My half-brother has “special needs” or whatever the PC term is these days, but I’m old enough where when I was a kid, his condition was just officially called “mentally retarded”, like that’s what doctors called it, lmao.

It was more contextual, the PC of it all. My friends could call me a retard for doing something dumb, and I’d laugh with them. Call my brother a retard mockingly, especially to his face….. run upstairs and go put your pajamas on, you’re going to sleep early😵💥🤛

But anyway, somewhere along the line, because too many people said “retard” disrespectfully to folks with special needs or within earshot of them, we decided that wasn’t ok anymore. Fine, that’s cool. I think we changed to “mentally handicapped” next. Alright, whatever they say, I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings unnecessarily. It’s no inconvenience to me to NOT be a jerk, lmao.

But then after a little bit, that was no good. (Yet I think we still call parking spaces for disabled people “handicapped parking”🤔) I forget what was next, maybe “mentally challenged?” And then I think “special needs”, and that was it for me, that’s enough vocabulary change and mental retraining for one lifetime, lmao. PICK SOMETHING AND STICK WITH IT😤

Now I think it’s “developmentally disabled”, and at some point you’re asking for too many syllables out of me. I’m cool, I promise, I’m my brother’s legal guardian for the rest of his life. But enough with nomenclature adjustments. We can do “developmentally disabled” if you promise this is the last time, legally in writing, I just can’t keep doing this, lmfao. PLEASE😂 The Asians asked us to stop calling them Orientals, ONE TIME, and we all said “cool”, and they haven’t made any changes in like 35 years since then, lmao.

Anyway, enough out of me😅 But yeah…. PC shouldn’t be anything deliberate, it feels like a base level of human respect should always be satisfied, independent of any supposedly “earned” respect. Like anything you can’t change about yourself should be accepted without any real exception I can think of.

Respect for a fellow being drawing breath on this planet, and respect for a fellow human going through the human experience, granted automatically, and only under the most extreme circumstances of Level 99 evil behavior could it even be considered to be revoked and disregarded, and possibly just never, no matter what they’ve done.

So with those more extreme parameters set, the basic, effortless action of just being kind and treating people in the same way you would want to be treated should come extremely easily.

WindAtMyBack · Accepted Answer

That term started being used back in the early 80s, maybe a bit later than that.

Political correctness started in the 70s, but the term wasn't used until the 80s.

Political correctness was about changing the language to change all words perceived as derogatory or somehow negative to various groups. It largely started as gender neutral words. Hurricanes were no longer only female names, but alternated female and male names. Stewardess become flight attendant. Draftsmen became drafter or drafts person. Mrs and miss became Ms.

Oriental became Asian.

Indians became Native Americans (or First Nations in Canada)

There are a whole bunch of words like this. "Politically correct" was a term used to mock the change in vocabulary. It's intentionally ironic. Politically correct has meant politically incorrect since the beginning. It's totally mocking the people who came up with that stuff.

Simslover92 · Accepted Answer

Being censored and not able to really say what's on your mind because of how sensitive some people are.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Telling the truth.

Hal2002 · Answer

Politically correct to me means, that I can not be honest and tell the truth. Because you have to worry about hurting someone feelings, well screw that I have never been politically correct. The truth at times can be hurtful, it can hurt feelings and at times there is no way to soften it's impact.

Political correctness, is about censorship. I can not be against them teaching homosexuality to children, because I am homophobic and being anti gay is a hate crime. I can not say that a trans woman is not a female, because that is hurtful and disrespectful to the trans person.

Thank you Donald Trump, for killing political correctness.

exitseven · Answer

It means that you have to follow the rules that the democrats make up. They have a narrative that white people are evil, The pilgrims stole the country from the natives, and everything Trump does is wrong.
I imagine most would say that I am not politically correct.

Grlpwrrr · Answer

Political correctness basically means supporting corruption and deception with lies. Examples of “political correctness”: J3ws are good and innocent (truth: they are evil) Men and women are equal (truth: men are superior and there is nothing wrong with it) Sunlight is bad for you it gives you cancer (truth: sunlight is necessary because it provides perhaps the most important vitamin called vitamin D) Fasting gives you cancer (truth: fasting heals you) and many more

Summeroflove · Answer

What’s politically correct today is offensive tomorrow. What was not politically correct yesterday now is. It’s okay when certain people say things just not others.

Just people wanting to be offended by stuff mainly. But then those same people say offensive stuff

Zack-Bann · Answer

It means being a sheep and never challenging the higher order

I don’t want to love and respect people just because I’m afraid of the consequences of not doing it

That’s not respect that’s faking

I want to chose to love and respect people myself and form my own opinion based on a person’s behavior

Grond21 · Answer

The term originated in the Soviet Union where someone would say something that is factually correct, but not politically correct. In other words political correctness is a tool where you need to say something that is factually false but supports those in power.

Fireguy17 · Answer

something that I will never be, so don't even try.
I am not changing who I am so someone won't get butt hurt, because if I had to do that then I would not be a happy camper.
So, whose rights/feelings are more important than someone else's?

DonaldDarko · Answer

It's a scam, a trick. Listen to The Gulag Archipelago when you're commuting. It's on youtube. I also recommend Uri Besmenov

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

It means fascists are manipulating people and marginalizing those who won’t be manipulated. Controlling political dissenters through rule of law is a fundamental tenet of fascism.

Gospeedracer · Answer

It's about only discriminating against white people. Censoring fact checkers and true tellers on almost every form of media. Taking the knee and apologizing to a black football team as they form a line Infront of your wife on a bed.

Shiprex · Answer

Speaking in a way to avoid offending anyone and everyone.

fonduegirl · Answer

Some guy telling he's morally superior to me

Anonymous · Answer

Doings things that will prevent offending minority groups

FreyaRed · Answer

Telling people what they want to hear. Depends on the audience

lorenzomichael · Answer

It means that I cast my vote on every election that I can so I have a say so. Because if I don’t then I can’t agree or disagree with anything political.

HighValue · Answer

It mostly means to agree with all the liberal bs lies and hate White people and the USA.

RavVid · Answer

Conforming to liberal precepts despite them being inane.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

Trying to piss off as few people as possible. It is a pipe-dream because there is nothing you can do that will piss zero people off so stick with the audience you want to attract.

worldscolide · Answer

Censorship and submitting your self to delusional idiocy, and woke bullshit.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

You need to be able to insult someone, and make them say 'thank you' in return.

Anonymous · Answer

It means pandering to and coddling weak minded people with thin skins.

cavedweller1973 · Answer

It means trying to say something in a way that no one gets offended by the way I believe in speaking the blunt truth

msc545 · Answer

Not ever using the N word or anything like it, and never being rude to people because of their color.

Arcadian222 · Answer

Being emotionally intelligent and stating something that's not giving away too much or harming/triggering anyone

Anonymous · Answer

It means not insulting people based on political subjects (nation, race, ethnicity, religion, who are they voting on the elections etc).

Surely · Answer

Saying things so the democrats don’t loose their minds over it!

beefcakebradybatson · Answer

Being a bit too sensitive about certain situations involving people.

AngryCarl2 · Answer

Following the unwritten laws that control your "free" speach.

Anonymous · Answer

For me, PC means to behave in the wrongful woke way that the Democrat Party platform wants you to follow

Static_In_The_Attic · Answer

It’s a bunch of bullshit!

Paige90 · Answer

Voting Republican

qwerty2469 · Answer

Being factually wrong.

shortster · Answer

Communist/socialist word police.

Hulk30 · Answer

Pg-13 instead of Hardcore Raw transparency

SamWinchester058 · Answer

Being afraid to hurt people's feelings.

Pterodon · Answer

Censorship

Bunnybuny · Answer

Kissing up to people

DrPepper12 · Answer

Not Gen X

Anonymous · Answer

Not mentioning diversity.

jimmy2 · Answer

Racism

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