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Being "PC" is another way of saying "I'm not saying things that will intentionally offend other people." Another way of saying that is "not being a dick".
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07-04-2014, 12:23 AM
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Being "PC" is another way of saying "I'm not saying things that will intentionally offend other people." Another way of saying that is "not being a dick".
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Ah yes.....not saying things that will offend others can be called PC. But cannot one be "a dick" through use of correct grammar without slurs or epithets/swear words?
That is the crux of the discussion.
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07-04-2014, 12:24 AM
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But still, no one has answered the question whether Frank Zappa ever practiced political correctness.
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Ask Mrs. Gore about his political correctness.
We need a very precise definition of this expression (what is hardly possible) so we may all talk about the same. Otherwise a lot of misunderstandings will occur.
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07-04-2014, 12:28 AM
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Ah yes.....not saying things that will offend others can be called PC. But cannot one be "a dick" through use of correct grammar without slurs or epithets/swear words?
That is the crux of the discussion.
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Using correct grammar is being a dick? Sorry. You lost me.
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07-04-2014, 12:40 AM
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Using correct grammar is being a dick? Sorry. You lost me.
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You have equated political correctness with not using certain language......
is that what PC is bad language? or is it something else?
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07-04-2014, 12:57 AM
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We need a very precise definition of this expression... so we may all talk about the same.
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I think you are on the right track.......please provide a definition so we can all understand what PC is once and for all. At this point open and frank discourse as to the form of PC is essiential....
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I think you are on the right track.......please provide a definition so we can all understand what PC is once and for all. At this point open and frank discourse as to the form of PC is essiential....
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Your comment is ironic? Is that right?
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07-04-2014, 05:58 AM
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It took me most of a lifetime to learn it but I think it is summed up in 1 John 4:8.
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Your comment is ironic? Is that right?
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Ach du Liebes Bichen!
(I think that is German for Good Grief! )
Without proposing questions we cannot find out what PC actually IS,
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'Political Correctness' is an abstract term...hard to point at something and say 'that's it.' The most usual usage, I think, is sort of 'language use that avoids showing a 'lack of sympathy,' or even animosity, to the sensitivities of persons discriminated-against.' Sometime, 'persons discriminated against' morphs into 'persons making radical social criticisms and claiming sensitivity based on their particular POV.'
A wider usage encompasses other enforcement of some political orthodoxy, beyond choices in usage of language.
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