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relevant pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html This is a complicated topic, but my take is that the downside of polit
by robobenjie 11y ago
relevant pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
This is a complicated topic, but my take is that the downside of political correctness is a potential for a loss of absolute correctness, while the benefit is respect and erring on the side of not doing harm. Those things need to be balanced and we have do decide as individuals and as a culture how we make those trade offs.
- omonra 11y agoThere is a huge potential downside from political correctness. When ideas are not allowed to compete on their intellectual merit (because someone finds them offensive), everybody loses.