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Sometimes I wish the term "politically correct" had never been coined.
Not because I disagree with it in the strictest sense? But because it's been hijacked.
It's been hijacked both by people that support it and by people that are against it.
In many peoples' minds, "PC" has become something that people strive for for no real reason.
On one end of the spectrum, you have the outrage over Disney's new movie, The Princess and the Frog. What's wrong with a black character named Madison? Nothing.
But on the other end, you have people defending anti-(insert-demographic-here) slurs on the grounds that not using them is "too PC".
Somewhere along the line, on both sides, we lost sight of the human element.
Seriously. Whatever happened to just... not being a dick? I'm pretty sure that's what this whole "PC" thing was originally supposed to be about. Remembering that these are real people you're talking about and that they have real feelings.
People overly concerned with what is now called "political correctness" forget that they're supposed to be worrying about things that real people care about. And "anti-PC" people forget that when people are offended or hurt by something, they're offended or hurt for real, human reasons.
Can we just... start over? Try being nice to each other?
Is that possible?
Not because I disagree with it in the strictest sense? But because it's been hijacked.
It's been hijacked both by people that support it and by people that are against it.
In many peoples' minds, "PC" has become something that people strive for for no real reason.
On one end of the spectrum, you have the outrage over Disney's new movie, The Princess and the Frog. What's wrong with a black character named Madison? Nothing.
But on the other end, you have people defending anti-(insert-demographic-here) slurs on the grounds that not using them is "too PC".
Somewhere along the line, on both sides, we lost sight of the human element.
Seriously. Whatever happened to just... not being a dick? I'm pretty sure that's what this whole "PC" thing was originally supposed to be about. Remembering that these are real people you're talking about and that they have real feelings.
People overly concerned with what is now called "political correctness" forget that they're supposed to be worrying about things that real people care about. And "anti-PC" people forget that when people are offended or hurt by something, they're offended or hurt for real, human reasons.
Can we just... start over? Try being nice to each other?
Is that possible?