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Originally Posted by donquixote99
Political correctness is sort of weaponized manners. Manners are the start of it--don't be offensive to others. But that value is then mobilized as a weapon of political fight.
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I agree with this. I think people do it because they believe it works for them to bring about a particular outcome, and generally speaking they're right. It works, because folks knuckle under to it, cave in to it, because most folks want to be "liked", or in more public arenas don't want any negative publicity.
I disagree that such "weaponization" should be allowed control public discourse. When someone feigns offense because they are looking to create discomfort to exercise control over discourse, its probably because they're argument or idea would otherwise fail on its own merits. Whether or not we agree with the agenda of the individual using such poor debate tactics, IMHO we need to redirect the individual or group using such tactics to a more productive form of discourse.