(no subject)

[dreamer_easy]

A Times lit critic quipped, "...hell, even BBC staffers now think the country is too PC. Who, aside from local council employees, doesn't?" Hardly surprising when the phrase "politically correct" has long been merely a lazy label for anything vaguely left of centre. No-one's going to say the country should be more PC, are they?

Comments

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Not even people who are vaguely left of centre, it seems. Which is kind of a shame. That single phrase is proof of Orwell's contention that to control the language is to control the world: almost any bigotry can be practiced, almost any prejudice publicly flaunted, in total confidence that all objections can be quelled simply by calling them "political correctness gone mad." Or, at least, so it seems.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Testify. I wouldn't be so annoyed by the phrase if it actually meant something. Insults don't come any hazier.

I refuse to use the term

[edorm.livejournal.com]

I prefer the phrase "not being an asshole", because that's what it's really about.

In my experience, most of the people I've met that object to "PC" really mean "I just want to say and do whatever I want, and screw the other guy".

Re: I refuse to use the term

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Most of the time, that's what it boils down to. Spoilt brats.