What is wrong with you, PV? How do you expect anyone to take a single word that you say seriously if you purposely distort the views of someone with a polar opinion. There is not a single nation on this planet that has a truly "free" society. If there are laws then you are not free to do exactly as you please. The closest thing to actual freedom is anarchy. The closest thing next to that is democracy. However, there aren't even any functioning democracies in the world. The western world is made up of mostly republics. Doesn't matter if they tell you it's a democracy. It's a republic.
MF's point is that pc is a term used for common sense guide lines that keep people from being complete assholes. And he already talked about how the complete stupidity doesn't enter into it. I've personaly heard someone being berated for using the word niggardly even though the person doing the berating knew what the word meant and that it has nothing to do with the word that it both looks like and sounds like. That's stupidity. Not being pc.
Of course, every person should have the right to opinions and the right to assemble and lay out those opinions. But I have the right to walk down my street with my daughter without being called a honkey motherfucker just as any black man has the right to be outside without being called a nigger. This is called common decency. This is being pc.
__________________
My bowels hurt.
|