[DemolitionRed]

PC is often used within an accusation statement on forum boards like this and its usually used to discredit a belief and disregard another poster.

What are your thoughts on political correctness?

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

PC is often used within an accusation statement on forum boards like this and its usually used to discredit a belief and disregard another poster.

What are your thoughts on political correctness?

PC is a barrier to how people REALLY want to express their beliefs and feelings,and can be quite dangerous.

[Anaesthesia]

I'd agree with Kazanne, we do still have a right to a freedom of speech, albeit within certain parameters. I work in an extremely multicultural office because of the necessity for language speakers, and being non-PC is all part of the office banter, nobody is offended, we all give and take and we get along just fine. I call my workplace the United Nations. (It isn't *the* United Nations)

I think if there was a need for everyone to walk on eggshells with what we did / didn't joke about it would be a very different, and not for the better, workplace. Sometimes you just don't have to take yourself so seriously.

If it becomes offensive however, it's a different matter. But in general, I'm not a fan of PC, I don't need to be told how to interact with others, I can work it out for myself.

[JoshBB]

I think political correctness is a good concept that protects minorities from verbal attacks, harassment, and it overall makes the country a much easier for people like LGBT persons to go on with their daily life without having lunatics scream insults at us.

It might seem like you are being silenced unnecessarily, but usually it only takes common sense and politeness to what should and should not be said. I respect Freedom of Speech, but for example things like the N-word are not acceptable and do not come under that.

I think a lot of far-right lunatics also mistake political correctness with the established political consensus on how we treat minorities, and usually they use 'pc' as an excuse to fake outrage that they cannot go around chanting threats anymore.

[Anaesthesia]

Originally Posted by JoshBB

usually it only takes common sense and politeness to what should and should not be said.

This. No need to be told what is / isn't PC.

[Macie Lightfoot]

what's the harm in trying not to offend someone?

[Mystic Mock]

PC can be good and bad like most things in this world, it's good points are mainly to stop harassment, and prejudice against people who can't help being who they are, it's bad points are when the Government feels like it's okay to stop people from saying bah bah black Sheep because "it's racist" when if anything the establishment are being racist by reading so much into an innocent Nursery rhyme.

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

PC is a barrier to how people REALLY want to express their beliefs and feelings,and can be quite dangerous.

I think it certainly can be but then I think PC is like a buffet in that we can pick and choose what is good PC and what isn’t. For me its about good manners. Imagine if your teacher told you that you were a '******' or your doctor called you a 'cripple'.

When my mum worked as a lab technician (a long time ago) she recommended a friend to come and join their team. When she turned up for her interview her boss called through the door to my mum saying, "Bloody hell Olivia, you could of told me she's a bloody w*g".

I'm glad those days are gone and we now live in a more polite society but I think where PC runs amok is where we have to change words like disabled for "mobility challenged" or a bin man a "waste management technician" and a pipe cleaner "craft wire". I think we've gone OTT when it comes to offending people.

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

PC can be good and bad like most things in this world, it's good points are mainly to stop harassment, and prejudice against people who can't help being who they are, it's bad points are when the Government feels like it's okay to stop people from saying bah bah black Sheep because "it's racist" when if anything the establishment are being racist by reading so much into an innocent Nursery rhyme.

'The Fat Controller' is no longer fat either!

[Anaesthesia]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

it's bad points are when the Government feels like it's okay to stop people from saying bah bah black Sheep because "it's racist" when if anything the establishment are being racist by reading so much into an innocent Nursery rhyme.

My son, now 20s, had to sing "Moo moo Jersey Cow, have you any milk?" At nursery :/

I'd be well pi**ed off if we came from Jersey

[Lostie!]

I think too many people use the "ERMAHGERD TEH PC BRIDAGE" as an excuse to say whatever offensive, insulting things come into their heads.

But on the other hand, I think some people go to the other extreme and find almost anything potentially offensive even when it clearly isn't.

[Ninastar]

depends, sometimes I think it's needed and other times I think it's made people waaaay too OTT about some issues. People these days (not everyone, ofc) get offended by sooo many things. I think this actually does more harm than good, because it takes away from true issues, which then get seen as less important because people complain about them all the time.

Like as much as I think tumblr is a good website for young people, I also think it kind of brain washes teens/young teens into thinking that everyone is evil/if you don't think X you're Xist!!!!!/straight white men are the bane of all existence. People of tumblr claim to be non-judgmental/very PC, yet they end up hating on people anyway.

Just my thoughts.

[Jack_]

The phrases 'it's PC gone mad' and 'PC brigade' are basically just a smokescreen for 'I want to be a bigoted bastard and society won't let me wah wah wah '

[arista]

USA Future President Trump is doing very well
being Anti PC

[arista]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

PC is a barrier to how people REALLY want to express their beliefs and feelings,and can be quite dangerous.

Bang On Right Kaz

[Kizzy]

I'd say the PC police/brigade is a cry from some who use it to mask their ignorance on certain topics.

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Jack_

The phrases 'it's PC gone mad' and 'PC brigade' are basically just a smokescreen for 'I want to be a bigoted bastard and society won't let me wah wah wah '

I agree, being offended is often used as a tactic in an argument or even a heated debate. Having to censor our expression through language restricts the message we are trying to give and so providing that language remains somewhat civil and isn't trying to jide someone into a cat fight it should be encouraged not suffocated.

[Anaesthesia]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

I agree, being offended is often used as a tactic in an argument or even a heated debate. Having to censor our expression through language restricts the message we are trying to give and so providing that language remains somewhat civil and isn't trying to jide someone into a cat fight it should be encouraged not suffocated.

language is limited in that it doesn't really, and cannot, convey the exact meaning of how we feel.

[bots]

When words are used to demean, degrade or ostracise someone, then that should be called out. All other uses of words should be acceptable.

The problem is that language is a very imprecise method of communication that is open to interpretation both by the speaker and the listener. The anti PC brigade rightly take issue when language is reduced to its most basic and useless form, a lowest common denominator that is incapable of offending anyone, because the richness, value and beauty of language is lost at that point to.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

I think it certainly can be but then I think PC is like a buffet in that we can pick and choose what is good PC and what isn’t. For me its about good manners. Imagine if your teacher told you that you were a '******' or your doctor called you a 'cripple'.

When my mum worked as a lab technician (a long time ago) she recommended a friend to come and join their team. When she turned up for her interview her boss called through the door to my mum saying, "Bloody hell Olivia, you could of told me she's a bloody w*g".

I'm glad those days are gone and we now live in a more polite society but I think where PC runs amok is where we have to change words like disabled for "mobility challenged" or a bin man a "waste management technician" and a pipe cleaner "craft wire". I think we've gone OTT when it comes to offending people.

Hmm,I think people are LESS polite now in some ways,there seems to be a lack of respect for elders especially,I was brought up to ask before I left a table at meal times, to say please and thankyou,to be seen and not heard,I could never wear short skirts or make up , I cannot see kids adhereing to any of that nowadays.Say,you asked them to be quiet etc,usually all you get is mouthful of abuse even when you ask them nicely,so I don't think society is more polite,but I agree that it has stopped people being unnecessarily abusive.

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

I think it certainly can be but then I think PC is like a buffet in that we can pick and choose what is good PC and what isn’t. For me its about good manners. Imagine if your teacher told you that you were a '******' or your doctor called you a 'cripple'.

When my mum worked as a lab technician (a long time ago) she recommended a friend to come and join their team. When she turned up for her interview her boss called through the door to my mum saying, "Bloody hell Olivia, you could of told me she's a bloody w*g".

I'm glad those days are gone and we now live in a more polite society but I think where PC runs amok is where we have to change words like disabled for "mobility challenged" or a bin man a "waste management technician" and a pipe cleaner "craft wire". I think we've gone OTT when it comes to offending people.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Jack_

The phrases 'it's PC gone mad' and 'PC brigade' are basically just a smokescreen for 'I want to be a bigoted bastard and society won't let me wah wah wah '

I agree that it sometimes can be used for that, but sometimes it can be very OTT.

It's honestly not all bad or all good, it really is like people I suppose in being merky.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

Hmm,I think people are LESS polite now in some ways,there seems to be a lack of respect for elders especially,I was brought up to ask before I left a table at meal times, to say please and thankyou,to be seen and not heard,I could never wear short skirts or make up , I cannot see kids adhereing to any of that nowadays.Say,you asked them to be quiet etc,usually all you get is mouthful of abuse even when you ask them nicely,so I don't think society is more polite,but I agree that it has stopped people being unnecessarily abusive.

Tbf some elderly people can be right dicks for absolutely no reason other than they're older than the other person they're demeaning.

[Tom4784]

People who whine about PC are generally mad that they're getting called out on their terrible views.

Some people go OTT with it but it's generally only the bigots who'll act like they're in 1984 because of it.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I always say, "well i am not a politician and not political"


PC means "i dont want to be blamed"

its bollocks