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Seeing how the same author has been trying to sound the alarm on political correctness at least since the beginning of this year, it seems unlikely that we'll s

by xlm1717 11y ago

Seeing how the same author has been trying to sound the alarm on political correctness at least since the beginning of this year, it seems unlikely that we'll start taking political correctness seriously any time soon. Questioning political correctness is the realm of right-wing kooks anyway.

dang 11y ago
> right-wing kooks The HN guidelines ask you to edit name-calling out of your comments here, so please do. In this case the last sentence could be eliminated, since that's all it does. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- sea2summit 11y ago
  You triggered, bro?
  - loco5niner 11y ago
    I for one, appreciate the attempt at civility, bro.
    - sea2summit 11y ago
      Sure, but the irony is killing me. I forgot, HN is a safe space.
      - AnimalMuppet 11y ago
        It's intended as a safe space for thoughtful discussion, yes. If that cramps your style, well... maybe that's telling you something.
        sea2summit 11y ago
        I'm pretty disappointed you guys are missing all my jokes. Someone got called out for name calling in a discussion about the problems with political correctness!
        AnimalMuppet 11y ago
        Ah, I see. My sarcasm detector wasn't calibrated well enough. But HN does have guidelines against name-calling. None against any particular ideas, though. HN "censors" harsh attitudes and personal attacks, not ideas that are "unacceptable". So it's not particularly like political correctness.
        loco5niner 11y ago
        Whoops. Guess I missed it too.
        powera 11y ago
        Jokes are also against the HN guidelines.
        sea2summit 11y ago
        Methinks the commenters in this thread are exactly the PC problem those who support free speech are fighting against.
        dang 11y ago
        Of course jokes are not against the HN guidelines.
        deleted 11y ago
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        deciplex 11y ago
        They aren't, but I've seen you call out users in the past basically for making a joke that you either didn't catch or that you didn't think was funny enough to justify the impropriety that went along with it. I wouldn't say it's a big problem or anything, but it does happen.
      - loco5niner 11y ago
        It's not about "safe places" (a concept that I am not a fan of, btw), but about raising the level of interaction. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programmer)#Graham.27s_hierarchy_of_disagreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programm...
loco5niner 11y ago
I question political correctness, and I'm right wing. According to you, I must be a kook.
- seansmccullough 11y ago
  That so intolerant to not tolerant questioning political correctness!
JadeNB 11y ago
It seems that your first sentence saying is saying that we don't (and won't) take political correctness seriously, and then your second sentence is saying that everyone but right-wing kooks already takes it seriously. I must be mis-reading, but I can't see how.
paulgayham 11y ago
Stop blaming it on the right. I'm left, and I agree that this shit needs to fuck off. Identity Politics is the worst bunch of assholes that I'd quite like to not be lumped in with.

by xlm1717 11y ago

dang 11y ago

> right-wing kooks The HN guidelines ask you to edit name-calling out of your comments here, so please do. In this case the last sentence could be eliminated, since that's all it does. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

sea2summit 11y ago
You triggered, bro?
- loco5niner 11y ago
  I for one, appreciate the attempt at civility, bro.
  - sea2summit 11y ago
    Sure, but the irony is killing me. I forgot, HN is a safe space.
    - AnimalMuppet 11y ago
      It's intended as a safe space for thoughtful discussion, yes. If that cramps your style, well... maybe that's telling you something.
      - sea2summit 11y ago
        I'm pretty disappointed you guys are missing all my jokes. Someone got called out for name calling in a discussion about the problems with political correctness!
        AnimalMuppet 11y ago
        Ah, I see. My sarcasm detector wasn't calibrated well enough. But HN does have guidelines against name-calling. None against any particular ideas, though. HN "censors" harsh attitudes and personal attacks, not ideas that are "unacceptable". So it's not particularly like political correctness.
        loco5niner 11y ago
        Whoops. Guess I missed it too.
        powera 11y ago
        Jokes are also against the HN guidelines.
        sea2summit 11y ago
        Methinks the commenters in this thread are exactly the PC problem those who support free speech are fighting against.
        dang 11y ago
        Of course jokes are not against the HN guidelines.
        deleted 11y ago
        [deleted]
        deciplex 11y ago
        They aren't, but I've seen you call out users in the past basically for making a joke that you either didn't catch or that you didn't think was funny enough to justify the impropriety that went along with it. I wouldn't say it's a big problem or anything, but it does happen.
    - loco5niner 11y ago
      It's not about "safe places" (a concept that I am not a fan of, btw), but about raising the level of interaction. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programmer)#Graham.27s_hierarchy_of_disagreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programm...

loco5niner 11y ago

I question political correctness, and I'm right wing. According to you, I must be a kook.

seansmccullough 11y ago
That so intolerant to not tolerant questioning political correctness!

JadeNB 11y ago

It seems that your first sentence saying is saying that we don't (and won't) take political correctness seriously, and then your second sentence is saying that everyone but right-wing kooks already takes it seriously. I must be mis-reading, but I can't see how.

paulgayham 11y ago

Stop blaming it on the right. I'm left, and I agree that this shit needs to fuck off. Identity Politics is the worst bunch of assholes that I'd quite like to not be lumped in with.