Originally Posted by Christmas treeza (Post 9726767)

Hang on, are you not the one who posts you tube vids specifically related to mocking what you consider 'pc'? on here regularly?

Originally Posted by Christmas treeza (Post 9726780)

Is that how you see people you consider to be 'PC'?

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey (Post 9726785)

Wait wait i get it.

Trying to bait me into a silly argument on the internet so i contradict myself:laugh:
Nice try :thumbs:

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey (Post 9726778)

Yeah,

Some **** is ridiculously PC.Usually hard lefties in US uni’s.

What’s your point?

Originally Posted by Brillopad (Post 9726792)

That depends if they think they have the right to verbally personally abuse me for having a different opinion.

Originally Posted by Christmas treeza (Post 9726799)

My point is you are one of the posters who have been waging some kind of vendetta against what you consider 'pc' and yet you suggest you yourself are neutral... Which is totally not the case.

I remember one instance where a lecturer suggested people being gay made him feel the same way that incest did, do you remember that one?
The student who reported him was then the subject of his online ravings and panel discussions for months!

She is now forever in your mind as a 'ridiculously PC hard leftie' .. Which is both untrue and unfair.

You are one of those that through your own ignorance perpetrate myths that spread misinformation to other ignorant people, that instead of reasoning out the issue for themselves are happy to agree it's the young person that is at fault for daring to question the prejudice from those in authority.

Originally Posted by Brillopad (Post 9726781)

Sounds like you see them as the collective enemy! :hehe:

Originally Posted by Christmas treeza (Post 9726802)

And you don't feel being labeled 'pc' for having a different opinion is abuse?

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey (Post 9726808)

I never said i’m neutral.I said i still find the internet a strange place with all these opinions that you’d never normally hear and that i think arguing online is futile.Which it is.
Debating and arguing are different things.

Originally Posted by Brillopad (Post 9726813)

Not really, it is on one hand just a term for those that take controlling free speech too literally and too far, OTOH it can be a term for those who are on a power trip and maliciously trying to force their opinions on to others. Hardly in the same catagory of abuse as accusing someone of hating people for the colour of their skin etc.

Originally Posted by Christmas treeza (Post 9726814)

You are an instigator then, you post a vid with a very obvious bias to provoke a reaction?

Originally Posted by Christmas treeza (Post 9726814)

You are an instigator then, you post a vid with a very obvious bias to provoke a reaction?

Originally Posted by Brillopad (Post 9726820)

Seems an odd thing to say when very recently you were being accused of trying to provoke reactions with all your PC speech ie mansplaining.

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey (Post 9726823)

Everyone’s an instigator when someone disagrees with you....

Originally Posted by Toy Santa (Post 9726568)

As much as I hate to say it, in some ways, yes the extreme end of it has become a joke. I more or less agree with the end of that piece;

"One hates to even mention the old cliche about it being ‘political correctness gone mad’, but if not mad, it certainly seems to be on the point of being dangerously unbalanced."

Certainly, some things have started going too far, mostly in that people seem to be incapable of independent thought and consideration at this point and are just sheep following certain "rules" that have been set out about what you "can and can't say", and when.

Of course, the flipside can go to far as well. Far too many people have decided that the best solution to this going too far, is to go COMPLETELY in the other direction and have ZERO sense of appropriateness or social etiquette... and feel that they should just be able to say WHATEVER they want to whoever they want, at any time, without repercussions. We don't want to backpedal all the way back to the mid 20th century where racism, homophobia, misogyny etc. were all part and parcel of everyday life but at the same time, yes, it's getting to the point where it's going to be impossible to live any sort of normal existence with the complexity of it.

I personally feel like a good balance was struck in the late 90's / early 00's, started to get a bit daft around 2010, and since 2015 it's all become a bit of a farce.

Originally Posted by Withano (Post 9727120)

If there's anything that tibb has taught me, it's that those who cry PC are often to most PC (when it suits)

Originally Posted by Withano (Post 9727120)

If there's anything that tibb has taught me, it's that those who cry PC are often to most PC (when it suits)

Originally Posted by Brillopad (Post 9727248)

What you keep conveniently ignoring is that the anti-snowflakes were created by the snowflakes constantly objecting to their opinions and trying to shut them down.

What was the obvious result of that ... surprise, surprise they gave the snowflakes a taste of their own medicine by complaing about their opinions. Again people shouldn’t give it if they can’t it.

Originally Posted by Withano (Post 9727249)

Did you quote the wrong post? Either way, this is boring.

Originally Posted by Sir Alfred (Post 9726907)

This Monty Python clip from Life of Brian shows just how visionary they were. This comedy scene is the reality today.