PC definition

[fatbaldguy]

I didn't research to see if this is true or not.  I like it nonetheless.
“Political Correctness” - A long awaited definition …

There's an annual contest amongst Australia's University community calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.  This year's contest term was “political correctness”.

 

The winning student wrote:

 

“Political correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional illogical minority, that is enthusiastically promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end.”

[fightingquaker13]

ROFL!

[tombogan03884]

Political correctness is intellectual censorship.
It is directing you to certain conclusions by labeling particular words and ideas as "hate speech".
For example referring to homosexuality as a perversion, or an abomination to God instantly opens you to the label of "homophobic bigot"depriving your side of the debate of the moral high ground .
If you have any form of principal at all PC can and will be used to under mine it.

[fightingquaker13]

Political correctness is intellectual censorship.
It is directing you to certain conclusions by labeling particular words and ideas as "hate speech".
For example referring to homosexuality as a perversion, or an abomination to God instantly opens you to the label of "homophobic bigot"depriving your side of the debate of the moral high ground .If you have any form of principal at all PC can and will be used to under mine it.

Or you could take the libertarian approach and say its not my business, why are you so uptight about it, something to hide? and piss both sides off.

[Magoo541]

Or you could take the libertarian approach and say its not my business UNTIL it affects my business, why are you so uptight about it, something to hide? and piss both sides off.

FIFY, or rather clarified what libertarians mean when they say that 

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[Solus]

FIFY, or rather clarified what libertarians mean when they say that 

I don't see it affecting their business until someone, on either side of the issue, makes a big deal out of it.

[tombogan03884]

Or you could take the libertarian approach and say its not my business, why are you so uptight about it, something to hide? and piss both sides off.

The reply to that comment is as simple as the mind that would make it.
This is America I can voice an opinion on any subject I wish and if you don't like it you can either not listen, or you can GFY.
There are a couple of items in your post that are not true, first off I never indicated that I was "uptight" about the subject, I simply stated an opinion as an example with out ever even indicating whether or not it was MY opinion .
Secondly, you do not understand the Libertarian view any better than you do politics or history.
The Libertarian view would be that GOVT has no place regulating sexual mores.
That means that the GOVT has no authority to force some one to accept conduct they find offensive.
The libertarian view however does not preclude public opinion condemning such behavior as being unacceptable within their community.
You have spent so much time in academe that you have lost the ability to engage in free thought unhampered by the blinders of political correctness.
Your thought processes have been conditioned to automatically reject or avoid any train of thought that veers away from the proscribed narrative.
You are a classic victim of PC brainwashing.

[fightingquaker13]

Tom, that post wasn't aimed at you at all. It was aimed at the gas bags on both sides who think I should be outraged, OUTRAGED damnit, about the issue on both sides. My post was just a way to tell them both to STFU and leave me alone as I honestly don't care one way or another. I've got bills to pay. I think we agree on this yes?
FQ

[tombogan03884]

FQ, the topic is political correctness, your opinion on gays is irrelevant.
I used them as an example because they are such low hanging fruit(s  )
30 years ago it was still common for gays to be beaten for being gays, and shook down by the cops since "morals" laws were still on the books. Now states are being pressured to accept gay marriage.
The Protection of marriage act in Ca was passed in a vote, that was the will of the community voicing what they find unacceptable.
But a gay judge (he came out when he was gloating) overturned the voice of the people based on his own whim.
And it was all accomplished through by dem politicians and the media through shaping the debate by ruling some words as " hate speech" and demonizing opponents .
Political Correctness allowed Hitler to gas Jews, PC allowed Serbs to rape and exterminate Bosnians, and if applied carefully could be used to promote any other behavior imaginable such as re instituting slavery, or standing in line for shoes, whether they were your size or not.

[kmitch200]

The Protection of marriage act in Ca was passed in a vote, that was the will of the community voicing what they find unacceptable.
But a gay judge (he came out when he was gloating) overturned the voice of the people based on his own whim.

Sounds like he's SCOTUS material there!! If you can't find law to rule on, rule on feelings.

Reminds me of the "sensitivity" training classes that the FD had. (they still might, f*ck 'em, I'm retired) "You can't say "X".
When I piped up and said "What if it's true?" They got all hot and bothered and just wanted me grin, nod and eat the pablum.