It’s excuses, all the way down.
I’ve always felt anti-pc zealots just don’t want to face any actual consequences for acting like insufferable douchewads to other people.
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A: “Why do you PC libtards get so worked up over which words people use, anyway?”
B: “Well for starters, some of the things you’ve been saying are pretty racist.”
A: “Racist?? How DARE you use such an inflammatory word!”
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Ooh, what plugin would it be? AAX? RTAS? VST?
I’m also ok with Mac types and .AU.
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I am so glad I’m not back in Carlisle today 
When I was at school I remember seeing fights when I was walking past pubs on my way home on black-eye Friday (We had been let out early to avoid the worst of it too). I bet most of them were the type of people who would be moaning about political correctness gone mad, if they were sober enough to form a coherent sentence.
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RCA phono?
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It actually happened in Rotherham. Council workers were afraid of being branded as racists and losing their jobs if they raised their concerns about the behaviour of groups of Pakistani men.
However - and this is a fucking massive HOWEVER - what caused them to think this was not that political correctness had gone mad, but rather that they’d been fed the lie for years in the tabloid press that political correctness had gone mad and you couldn’t report a muslim for child abuse. Madness, but it happened.
The Mail and The Sun and the other peddlers of the PC lie do actually share some of the responsibility for the continuing abuse and anyone trying to cite this as an actual case of PC gone mad can just fuck right off as far as I’m concerned.
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In that context Casey_Ellis is correct, I guess!
It’s been a standard lefty joke for sixty years:
Freberg was not right wing; he was a notable opponent of McCarthyism.
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How about if you change it to “terminate with extreme prejudice”?
Plain old respect and consideration when the subject matter is other, generally innocent human beings would suffice. Maybe “PC culture” when it exists takes it to exaggeration and makes it dogmatic. But some people know no respect, and should be reminded that a rational discussion needs to be made in rational terms, try not to outrage your interlocutor. Say, we can discuss illegal immigration without ever offending illegal immigrants, even if we have to talk about when and how to deport them humanely and respectfully. Else there’s no discussion.
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Nowadays, what they call Political Correctness is what in better days was called correctness, respect, consideration, moderation in language, showing knowledge and high regard for facts. You know, not being a low slanderer, a rabble-rouser and a pogrom-caller.
It should not be a left vs. right or right vs. left thing, to me it’s what’s right vs. what’s wrong.
Nowadays, you get called Politically Correct and a Cultural Marxist when you point out basic facts such as that most immigrants, legal or not, or most Muslims, or most Mexicans, or most Jews, or most Romanians are law-abiding people who live productive lives of respect towards others. You get called that by somebody who calls in a rather hysterical manner for democratic governments to commit some huge atrocity ranking with the expulsion of the Jews from Ukraine or even the Armenian Genocide.
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better than ‘vote for people with extreme prejudice’
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you sure you got a leg to stand on? It’s not like you suffer fools well yourself.
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Your post brings up an important distinction. There is a term, ‘political correctness’, that may or may not have a very specific domain, and there is largely a single group of people using the term as a veiled argument that they should be allowed to openly be bigots without societal recourse. It’s sort of like, ‘yeah, well, Barack HUSSEIN Obama is his given name’, but it sure as fuck says quite a lot about your intentions if you insist on referring to him as such. The right have been masters of the misuse of language (as childish as the language they invent is, maybe it says more about the tools that parrot this stuff than the halfwits that create it) as long as I can remember, and it’s a shame we let them get away with it. Language is important. Take ‘Obamacare’; even Democrats use that term now. How different would discourse be if it was referred to as the Affordable Care Act, or even the ACA? In a nutshell, I’m saying that even if ‘political correctness’ could possibly exist in some heavy handed way, which seems plausible, it will now be irrelevant to the discussion because the term is meaningless.
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There’s a difference between “all people deserve respect” and “all ideas deserve respect”.
I can be polite and respectful to a woman of Honduran ancestry without feeling obliged to use silly new made up words like “Latinx”.
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But isn’t the comedian complaint just “some clubs I go to I can’t do my normal act in because it isn’t received well”?
In terms of broadcasting your comedy to your actual audience the world have never once been any better, even if you book a club where the crowd doesn’t like you.
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All words are made up.
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[quote=“lolipop_jones, post:102, topic:91700”]
I can be polite and respectful to a woman of Honduran ancestry without feeling obliged to use silly new made up words like “Latinx”.
[/quote]You failed at the premise of your sentence in the same sentence you said it.
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All words are made up. They are also will have been new at some point.
If you don’t like that any random person can make up new words, then you may get on well with these people.
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