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What is so brave about taking the politically correct view?
by patrickg-zill 18y ago
What is so brave about taking the politically correct view?
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoIt's brave because we can all pat ourselves on each others' backs and talk about how brave it is. Don't question the mob. The mob is always right.
- jfarmer 18y agoIt might be PC on Hacker News, but it's certainly not even in the state of CA. Leave CA and the opposite view is the prevalent one. Leave da bubble! (And also vote no on Prop 8. kthx.)
- eggnet 18y agoThe politically correct view is to dodge the issue. There are a large number of people that oppose a stance in either direction, so the best thing to do is say nothing and give nothing to either side to use as a reason to dislike you.
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoI'd buy that if all the people opposed weren't being downmodded into the ground. To have a position from which dissent is not tolerated is the definition of PC. Hence the "correct" part of PC.
- eggnet 18y agoI'll agree it's PC on Hacker News because apparently we have a large number of readers who don't like prop 8. As to the downmodding, there are other reasons that your comment could have been downmodded. Once you escape the bubble that is Hacker News you find an extremely large population of religious people that are for prop 8. So you have large populations for and against. Thus, either position is strongly supported and opposed, there is no correct position that will not be assaulted. Google didn't post on Hacker News, they posted on a public blog.