PC PC PC
Look… we all understand that speech policing is a rhetorical weapon that can be used on any side of the debate to varying degrees of effectiveness and at levels of honesty?
Usually because ’you shouldn’t say that’ is easier to defend than ’you’re wrong’ or doing your research to provide a counterpoint?
But by the same regard, attempting to police speech policing is just going down a rhetorical bullshit hole. It’s basically just falling into the trap of distracting whatever point you actually want to make, unless you’re doing it not to make a point but to win political followers.
That said there are times when saying ’you can’t say that’ is actually the correct response (that doesn’t make it always correct) and there are times when it isn’t (that doesn’t mean it always isn’t). Those times are not defined by political spectrum position, nor are they entirely ruled by one group or another.
And following down the loop, when there is a reason ’you can’t say that’ is the correct response, the claim of ‘political correctness is bad’ is just a bullshit argument to avoid actually engaging in a real discussion.
Seriously, can we all understand that if someone says ’You can’t say that’ then the correct response is to ask “Ok, why?”, not to say ’you can’t tell me what not to say’ like some insane petulant child?
You live in a society, the goal should not be to have everyone serve your whims of what the world should be. If you want to be able to shout whatever stupid thing comes into your brain without thinking, go live on a mountain top and leave the rest of us out of it.
Complaining about political correctness is the last rhetorical gasp of a dying argument made because you can’t be bothered to find out what another person’s point of view is. Don’t be the idiot who complains about PC culture.
