So how do you feel about the PC culture?

[BLAZO da GAWD]

It's limiting our own freedom in a sense. A lot of the popular TV shows in the 90's would have never made it in this era. They would have been cancelled or the TV executives wouldn't give the show the green light to air.

This. Martin or Wayans Bros wouldn't have seen the light of day.

 

[wet landscapes]

idk breh
half of me buys into that whole chin up, don't be a baby shyt but the other half hates how that gives people leverage to shyt on others less normal than them
seeing people get scolded so seriously when they say anything out of line feels kind of lame but I also like seeing people having to deal with blacklash for stepping on other peoples toes

 

[onlylno]

The problem with political correctness is that it gives society a false sense of openness and acceptence.

Just because it's not socially acceptable to espouse certain oppinions, doesn't mean those oppinions don't exist.

As we have seen with racism. Just because people weren't explecitely allowed to be racist didn't make people less racist. It's just creating subconcious resentment.

The danger with this present hyper PC culture is that it's bottling masculinity and power from men. (Mostly White Men)


These feelings can't be bottled for much longer and were heading for a major revival of hyper-masculine white nationalist groups like the neo-nazis.

 

[The 2020 New Member]

The first amendment is more about the government than society. Hate speech is not protected. Society governs that. Poorly imo.

I think our current pc culture is overly sensitive. There are also a lot of donkeys taking ignorance to new lows. I personally don't approve of the current culture because it leads people into thinking life is something that it is not. It's not taffy and rainbows wrapped up in a neat little box. Things should be expressed candidly; Repsect also plays a big part. If this sensitivity leads to more harmony and respect, I'll abide. But in the meantime, insert every derogatory term here _________

 

[BaggerofTea]

Its all fun and games until its n***er this and n****er that


Political correctness is the only thing keeping whites from going off publicly about blacks

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Definitely outta hand, like the damn uproar against the cavs dirty dancing spoof or the dog commercial that got banned from the Super Bowl because it showed a lost dog which the SPCA felt would lead to dog abandonment...,you can't do shyt. I do think there is a pretty visible lne between good humored jokes based on stereotypes and being offensive, but it seems that that line has been erased and everything sparks a protest

 

[Handsback]

I think there is a time and place for political correctness. Like that woman who worked in HR and said she was going to get AIDS for going to Africa. She NEEDS to be politically correct because that's her fukking job. She absolutely deserved to be fired. But as far as Comedians, they should be allowed to make fun of whatever they want. And political correctness makes us pick and choose what we are going to be offended by. You can make fun of this, and this, and this, but not this.

I remember SNL did all kinds of Cosby jokes(mind you rape, is one of those things that has always been wrong to make fun of, but not in his case). Then they did an ISIS sketch and received a huge backlash for it. That to me is a perfect example of people choosing what they are going to be offended by. I just believe there shouldn't be a grey area as far as what is ok to make fun of and what isn't

There's a lot in this to unpack.

Are we just limiting this to comedy? If that's the case, comedy (not shock jock, crude bullshyt) should be given some leeway and freedom. Pushing boundaries is what makes folks like Carlin and Chappelle and Rock and C.K. great. But then we run into the problem of when is it ok to make fun of 9/11? Or slavery. The Holocaust. Do you have to be a person affected by whatever terrible incident to be able to joke about it? Marginally affected? I don't think there's a right or a wrong answer with these so long as the comedian is mindful and willing to risk the backlash for whatever jokes they tell.

Outside of that...... I know there's a big deal about the supporters of the Confederate flag rejecting the PC culture. And with this there's less room for argument. Usually it's just some prick throwing up a blanket "why are you trampling on my first amendment" bullshyt answer. Now if someone goes up to your grandmother and calls her a bytch and then goes on about everyone being too PC, there's no question in if they have stepped over the line. To reject the PC culture just in an effort to be crude and tasteless doesn't have any merit. Just an excuse to be a prick. I'm seeing a lot of this when the PC shield gets thrown up.

Personally I go about it like this: you can talk about all the un-PC stuff you like, but you can't say a thing when that card gets pulled. When someone tells you to meet 'em by the flag pole at 3 o'clock, ain't no one trying to hear that PC mess anymore.