Is the P.C. age helping or hurting?

Just a quick and easy question for you heathens this morning:

Do you believe that this new age of being "politically correct" is helping us? Is it making us think harder about ways we may inadvertently hurt those around us?

Or is it turning us into a bunch of people who are becoming too sensitive? Just curious.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on March 28, 2016 at 11:18am

A few examples of right-wing PCing would help take your view beyond opinion and at least lurching toward the realm of fact.

You mention that there are two examples but failed to give them. 

Maybe you don't understand what "political correctness" means. It means attempting to silence a view based on the notion that its expression will make some identifiable group feel bad.

Permalink Reply by Gary Clouse on March 28, 2016 at 11:38pm

Unseen, I understand the concept, but but what I am describing is silencing an opposing view by accusing the opponent of being PC. For an example of this consider Bill Oreilly who has described atheists as terrorist PC idiots for favoring secularism in public schools.

Permalink Reply by Unseen on March 29, 2016 at 12:10pm

And whose feelings would O'Reilly allegedly be trying to protect in that case?

Permalink Reply by Gary Clouse on March 29, 2016 at 9:28pm

O'Reilly is accusing the atheists organizations of being PC.  He effectively redefines PC to discredit  the legitimate concerns of the atheist community over the use of public resources to promote specific religious teachings.

Permalink Reply by Unseen on March 29, 2016 at 10:22pm

Oh, you mean the way some people declare we have free will by redefining free will? That's a dodge.

Permalink Reply by Gary Clouse on March 31, 2016 at 9:20am

It's more along the line of creationist redefining atheism as a religion.

Permalink Reply by Pope Beanie on March 28, 2016 at 12:52am

Yeah, but are there many youtube comments worth reading any more? It's a fricken fucking trollfest.

Permalink Reply by W1NT3R5 on March 29, 2016 at 12:47am
It's usually just people asking who is watching the video this year.
Permalink Reply by Pope Beanie on March 30, 2016 at 12:36am

I don't think we're on the same page(s).

Permalink Reply by Dustin on April 1, 2016 at 9:17am

lol funny cause I know what both of you are talking about and you are both correct.

But that's the point of you tube comments to lulzzzzz at the trolls.

Permalink Reply by Dustin on March 28, 2016 at 9:14am

Too sensitive.  Everyone needs to grow a thicker skin and not take things to heart and not take them so personally.  

Pretty soon there will be thought police and imprisonment all around the world if Moderate-Radical Islam has it's way.  

Freedom of speech means Freedom to offend.  

Permalink Reply by W1NT3R5 on March 29, 2016 at 12:45am
Absolutely.

Some people get so bent out of shape over television that they are willing to harm or even kill other people.

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