DominicCobb said:
You can’t just call everyone doing things you don’t like “political correctness.”Right, just like how you dismiss everyone acting on what they believe to be politically correct as not being “political correctness”.
Sorry, I’ve just been trying to look at the topic through the prism of a set definition of the term. Other people (on both sides) love to twist the concept. This frustrates me, but I guess I can’t really do anything about it.
But you’ve never explained how anyone is twisting the concept. The reason PC can and does go too far is because it’s so broad.
I guess I just expect people to act within reason. “Eenie meenie miney mo” is an extremely common phrase that nowadays has essentially no racist component to it. Most people don’t know the history of it and most of those that do surely understand it’s use now. There’s no reasonable reason to think that it’s offense.
People always make things binary and it drives me crazy. There are nuances. Not everything that has a racial history is racist anymore. So we don’t have to police all of that stuff, but we also shouldn’t neglect policing the stuff that is still racist.
I hate that people make things all or nothing (on both sides). Political correctness should have a place in society. Just because some take things to extremes doesn’t mean we should completely reject the concept entirely.