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Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena
I couldn't agree more. Especially the part about, "Some groups would rather drop all pretenses of political correctness and call a spade a spade (pun intended), never mind social etiquette. Some people need rules to mind their tongue. Others use their sensibilities."
With Jeff and Sammy's comments it makes me wonder how far they feel this applies - "...If people cannot handle honesty or the brutal nature of truth, they are weak."
Does this apply to calling people derogatory names as outlined by Sherwood above? Is a person "weak" because they don't like being called these intentionally insulting terms? What does the use of those terms advance? Your knowledge that the person using them is an *********? Because the use of those terms isn't "honesty" or "truth" its just verbal brutality that advances nothing in my opinion....maybe hurt feelings, maybe a fight and maybe even injury or death in certain circumstances.
I guess I don't get the "ANY" intent to use a more sensitive term or expression is some giant indicator of a character flaw as many on this thread seem to support.
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One-off derogatory swear words are just that. Where it becomes a problem (in the case of PC) is the penalty for using non-conventional words that normally aren't offensive in and of themselves.
LIke saying "Black" or "Colored" in reference to "People of Color" or "African Americans" and so on.
that's not being an *********, that's being hyper-sensitive. Plain and simple.
People just need thicker skin and quit trying to moderate everyone else. That's the problem. Screw that "I am my brother's keeper" nonsense- I hate being moderated because of simple terms. Whomever coined that phrase fully believed in PC and was a liberal.
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