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.
I had no idea of the history, but now that I know, I’m not going to tell a black person they shouldn’t be offended.
I actually remember it from when I was a kid. It was already offensive then, but one of our neighbors was really racist and taught his kids such phrases deliberately. Those kids were two of my friends, and they’d spout off these phrases without even knowing what they were saying. When I said that was a mean word, they didn’t even know. So glad some such things have changed.