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.
In isolation that is 100% true but isn’t the phrase when coupled with a blood-stained baseball bat covered in barbed wire a tiny bit questionable and threatening?
Hmm I didn’t know. That’s a bit much. I have seen the scene it comes from, so I know it’s not actually racist, but at the same time it’s a pretty disturbing scene. I don’t know why anyone would want this on a T-shirt in the first place.
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.
Fair enough. I somehow doubt any would be, but of course it’s alway better to defer to the people being potentially offended.
If it were just the phrase, I think it might be a bit much to be offended (I mean seriously, people use the phrase all of the time?). But with the bloody bat, I don’t know, that’s kind of pushing it.
Either way, it’s just a fucking T-shirt. Who cares?