Poll of the Day > A future where not being politically correct is criminal a utopia or dystopia?

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TigerTycoon
03/31/17 4:47:44 PM
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Would you consider a future where not being politically correct is criminal a utopia or dystopia?


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ParanoidObsessive
03/31/17 5:11:50 PM
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Someone already wrote that book. It was called 1984.


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Gamechamp3k
03/31/17 5:13:31 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Someone already wrote that book. It was called 1984.


I think the government there both encouraged and discouraged political correctness depending on the specific context. The entire point was taking advantage of doublethink to keep society loyal to them, after all.
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Claude_Frollo
03/31/17 5:16:16 PM
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Who the fuck voted Utopia?
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adjl
03/31/17 5:27:24 PM
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Depends. Does "politically correct" mean "being nice to people," or "adhering to whatever arbitrary social conventions are the new flavour of the month"? The former would be nice, but in practice, trying to enforce the former will pretty inevitably end up as the latter, and that's just a mess.
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Zeus
03/31/17 5:33:59 PM
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Gamechamp3k posted...
ParanoidObsessive posted...
Someone already wrote that book. It was called 1984.


I think the government there both encouraged and discouraged political correctness depending on the specific context. The entire point was taking advantage of doublethink to keep society loyal to them, after all.


It encouraged only one frame of thought and criminalized the other, so it was exactly like PC culture.

adjl posted...
Depends. Does "politically correct" mean "being nice to people," or "adhering to whatever arbitrary social conventions are the new flavour of the month"? The former would be nice, but in practice, trying to enforce the former will pretty inevitably end up as the latter, and that's just a mess.


PC has never been about being nice.
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VeeVees
03/31/17 5:37:33 PM
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did we invent the 3 shells yet?
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adjl
03/31/17 6:46:41 PM
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Zeus posted...
PC has never been about being nice.


Sure it has. People just inevitably take it to ridiculous, self-righteous extremes, which overshadows the more moderate aspects of it that often end up becoming quietly incorporated into common courtesy.
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cute_fan
04/01/17 5:21:24 AM
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I'd go so far as to put it the other way around.
Instead of "a future where not being politically correct is criminal" *massive shudder*,
I'd like to see a future where being an SJW is criminal, please. ^.^
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Foppe
04/01/17 5:38:44 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Someone already wrote that book. It was called 1984.



1984 got nothing to do with SJWs.
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Foppe
04/01/17 5:41:05 AM
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cute_fan posted...
I'd go so far as to put it the other way around.
Instead of "a future where not being politically correct is criminal" *massive shudder*,
I'd like to see a future where being an SJW is criminal, please. ^.^


You didnt call the black guy the N-word?
Prison time!
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Zeus
04/01/17 5:50:43 AM
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adjl posted...
Zeus posted...
PC has never been about being nice.


Sure it has. People just inevitably take it to ridiculous, self-righteous extremes, which overshadows the more moderate aspects of it that often end up becoming quietly incorporated into common courtesy.


But it's not common courtesy. It's a group of outsiders deciding what they think is best for another group, often without that group's input and against their wishes. It's not a matter of being taken to ridiculous, self-righteous extremes because it's *rooted* in those extremes. Its spiritual ancestors were the wannabe-do-gooder missionaries who took their religion to backwards nations "to educate the poor noble savage" and, in most regards, the movement has less to do with any supposedly oppressed group than it has to do with the egos of their so-called "saviors." And, for the record, they've only made things worse. PC culture has brought back segregation and made the historical victims clamor for it. It's a matter of time before the PC cults demand separate drinking fountains.

Foppe posted...
ParanoidObsessive posted...
Someone already wrote that book. It was called 1984.



1984 got nothing to do with SJWs.


On some levels, it embodies the idea of fascism pretending to be manners.
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TigerTycoon
04/03/17 3:17:44 PM
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bump
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darkknight109
04/03/17 4:40:20 PM
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Even as somebody who supports political correctness (which is typically a term salty people use to describe what most other people would refer to as "being polite"), I would never support the criminalization of non-PC speech.
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