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And if there was a referendum: "Political correctness should be dismantled", I guess most people would vote "Hell yeah!". So much for democracy.
by sm4rk0 5y ago
And if there was a referendum: "Political correctness should be dismantled", I guess most people would vote "Hell yeah!".
So much for democracy.
- olivermarks 5y agoI don't understand your point. Are you suggesting 'political correctness' - a relatively new term and phenomenon largely enabled by the internet - was something installed by society and is a good thing, and that a vote to 'dismantle' it would be a bad thing?
- sm4rk0 5y agoNo, quite the oposite.
- olivermarks 5y agoStill not clear what your point is?
- sm4rk0 5y agoMy point is that PC is forced upon us and that it's hindering free speech and no one benefits from it.
- jpadkins 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness It's an old term, and has been used in it's current form since the 1970's. I remember it's usage in media in the 80s, before the commercial internet.
- olivermarks 5y agoLooks like mid eighties when term took off https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=politically+correct&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cpolitically%20correct%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cpolitically%20correct%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=politically+co...
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoIt's hardly a failing of democracy that vague platitudes don't get turned into policy. Ending "political correctness" might be unpopular in principle, but I doubt any specific proposal for how to dismantle it would be popular. How would you even do that? You can't force people to not be offended by something.
- 6foot4_82iq 5y agoThe most intolerant wins. > It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences. > Further, an optical illusion comes with the dominance of the minority: a naive observer would be under the impression that the choices and preferences are those of the majority. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...