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It's one of the surprising side-effects of the Internet that anything whatsoever you might say in a public forum can potentially offend someone, somewhere, some
by Florin_Andrei 11y ago
It's one of the surprising side-effects of the Internet that anything whatsoever you might say in a public forum can potentially offend someone, somewhere, somehow.
- madaxe_again 11y agoLook, I'm not being racist, but I am mortally offended. You know what you said. Edit: in case you missed it, this was sarcastic.
- foxhill 11y agoyou're being down voted because your response does not contribute to the discussion; we all get it, people can feel offended from almost any statement - that is the point of this article.
- tetraodonpuffer 11y agoand can follow you for the rest of your life
- proksoup 11y agoI recently watched Slavoj Zizek speak about how political correctness is a more complete totalitarianism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tndXr-oQxxA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tndXr-oQxxA I am optimistic the video has some relevance to this discussion.
- m52go 11y agoMises recently published an excellent article on this topic, titled "PC is About Control, Not Etiquette" https://mises.org/library/pc-about-control-not-etiquette-0 https://mises.org/library/pc-about-control-not-etiquette-0
- jxramos 11y ago"PC is best understood as propaganda" what a bold statement! I like this critical exploration of the whole concept of PC, pretty fascinating.
- danieltillett 11y agoYou can look at this positively and that if someone gets offended then at least people are reading your work. It is very disheartening when you take the time to write something thoughtful and you get no response at all.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoThis has been turned into art by professional media outlets. That's the whole point of almost every single article they publish - the more people they can outrage or offend, the more people read and thus the more ad money flows in. > It is very disheartening when you take the time to write something thoughtful and you get no response at all. Scott Alexander explored this topic in [0]. He also laments the fact that the posts he considers most valuable are read the least, while his most controversial ones are also the most popular. He even has a nice graph of it[1]. [0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ [1] - http://slatestarcodex.com/blog_images/sschits.png http://slatestarcodex.com/blog_images/sschits.png
- Mickchicken2 11y agoThank you for sharing this. Fascinating read. Do you have any similar material?
- jandrese 11y agoI've been banned from a few forums for not toeing the line on the moderator's personal agenda. It comes with the territory of discovering as you get older that other people are sometimes just crazy and you shouldn't feed the crazy. I mean that literally. These people have mental health issues and they want you to bend over backwards to accommodate them out of a sense of guilt or something. You shouldn't do it. You're just enabling the sickness. It's like those guys who keep running out for more Twinkies even after their partner has grown so large that they can't fit through the door of the bedroom and are trapped. If someone is claiming that your use of regular English adverbs is triggering their PTSD then they are the ones with the problem, not you.
- kazinator 11y ago> people are sometimes just crazy and you shouldn't feed the crazy Those that ban people out of forums believe they are following same principle.