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Originally Posted by northwind
Then he said,
Skillfully answering his own question  The context is everything. Nobody- anywhere- has said that it's suddenly not acceptable to use the word monkey to describe people, but it's always been a word that some people use as racist abuse, and it's never been acceptable in that context. What's PC about that?
I hate the term PC, it's become a weapon against common decency. You can say something like "I don't like black people... But I suppose that's not politically correct these days eh?" or "There's a woman working in that garage- it's political correctness gone mad!" and people everywhere will nod and agree because political correctness has become such a joke, and all of a sudden an idiot comment's being ignored.
What started the whole PC idea off was basically just good manners. You don't eat with your fingers, you don't push in a queue, you don't call a black person a monkey. It's not that difficult. |
Sexual, verbal, physical, mental etc - all adjectives to describe different types of abuse. Racial abuse isn't a type of abuse, it's the motivation for carrying out one of the abuses above. And there were laws to protect people from those kind of abuses before the advent of PC madness.
So the PC culture does little to protect people anymore than existing laws, leave people afraid of leaving themselves open to vilification for a simple slip of the tongue and further serve to eradicate any chance people have to exercise common sense. So quite frankly it's perfectly understandable that people hate the PC brigade. It has nothing to do with common decency, it has everything to do with pretentious arses in government thinking they know best.