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Home Front: Culture Wars
Why Political Correctness Is War By Other Means
2017-01-18
h/t Instapundit
Political correctness was not such a bad idea in the beginning. Western societies have become terribly complex, and a healthy control of language can curb the rise of conflict--although often all it takes is a touch of politeness. This is the great lesson from sixteenth-century European wars of religion: some actions and words must be left outside the public space.

Five centuries later things have escalated, and PC is now a nightmare. It does not only define some areas where it now seems impossible to say anything (for example the so-called "safe spaces" of U.S. universities) but also fails in its basic function: instead of appeasing, it provides new and endless reasons for conflict.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#2  Political correctness was not such a bad idea in the beginning.

Bzzzzt! Wrong! PC is, and always has been, marxist thought police pure & simple. And the proper response to a PC moron is, and always should be, to suggest they go do something anatomically painful to themselves.
Posted by: PBMcL   2017-01-18 17:41  

#1  "Political correctness" according to whose politics?
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance   2017-01-18 14:03