[DemolitionRed]

@you don't need to manipulate your words beyond meaning. You just may have to consider consequences of the things you say and do. That's why I feel self-censorship is one of the bigger obstacle(s)

I went away and thought about this.

I regularly use another forum channel where people can basically say what they want. I’ve been called the 'C' word on many occasions for expressing myself politically right but emotionally wrong. The onslaught of hurtful words are there to injure and shut down any further discussion, but then perhaps its not what I said but the way that I said it. We need to take the word ‘political’ out of PC and call it for what it is, ‘respectful language’. We need to try and understand (and this goes to both the left and the right) why for example, a person believes all immigrants should be deported or why a person thinks immigration isn’t a problem, because only then can we discuss and understand why some people think so differently to ourselves.

We don’t have to be a fan of someone’s political leanings but if we can’t find common ground in a discussion, then we become enemies and when we try to discuss with enemies, nothing gets accomplished. We spend too much time speaking past one another and not enough time discussing our disagreements in more depth and when we do that, nothing gets achieved.