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I don't know what this is being downvoted for. I'm not a minority, but it's also obvious that a lot of PC stuff is virtue-signalling, combined with a implicit r
by pasabagi 8y ago
I don't know what this is being downvoted for. I'm not a minority, but it's also obvious that a lot of PC stuff is virtue-signalling, combined with a implicit reproach towards minorities for being sensitive. I mean, realistically, nobody gives a damn if you use the wrong word for a disability. Disabled people care that they're not accounted for in political decision-making that whole areas of wealthy countries are basically impossible to live in, whole careers that would be perfectly viable are closed, and so on. I'm not black, but I'm pretty sure nobody black is angry about people using the wrong words. I'm pretty sure they're angry about the fact that police basically have carte-blanche to imprison and murder their children over bullshit.
PS: I am actually mildly disabled. But then, that's the thing, isn't it? Everybody is going to be a minority at some point in their life, if you're old, if you have kids, if you have an injury - then you get the hard side of a society that caters for white able-bodied men.
- gaius 8y agovirtue-signalling, combined with a implicit reproach towards minorities for being sensitive Indeed. Here's a concrete example of PC culture banning a word and shaming people who actually have the condition https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/press/facts/brainstorming-offensive https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/press/facts/brainstorming-offens... 93 per cent of people with epilepsy did not find the term derogatory or offensive in any way and many felt that this sort of political correctness singled out people with epilepsy as being easily offended.