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Bjorn Against

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3. I have always hated the term politically correct...

Reply to gollygee (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2014, 10:44 PM

Mar 2014

It is a term that is used to defend racism, homophobia, misogyny, and all sorts of other nastiness. It is a term that is often intended to ridicule those who stand up to bigotry, and is often used to make racists look honorable by suggesting they are speaking out against conventional wisdom. I really wish more people would recognize just how often the term is used to defend bigotry and start calling this term out as the thinly cloaked bigotry that it often is.

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"Sorry, not P.C." [View all] gollygee Mar 2014 OP

What a fucking asshole. TDale313 Mar 2014 #1

bushco brought it back with honors. i can remember when both brothers puffed their chest and seabeyond Mar 2014 #6

excellent post, seabeyond. very well said. Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2014 #7

ha ha ha ha ha ha seabeyond Mar 2014 #11

feeling it, yep. me too Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2014 #17

Exactly so... hlthe2b Mar 2014 #10

ya seabeyond Mar 2014 #12

You gonna be in CO? hlthe2b Mar 2014 #14

ahhhh... then. hmmmmm. lets see what we can do. i will think seabeyond Mar 2014 #15

PM me as your plans firm up.... hlthe2b Mar 2014 #16

i will... coolest. nt seabeyond Mar 2014 #18

I guess she didn't read the part that said, "judge not." Squinch Mar 2014 #2

I have always hated the term politically correct... Bjorn Against Mar 2014 #3

+1 YoungDemCA Mar 2014 #21

It's like when people say ' no disrespect' then proceed to disrespect you. bravenak Mar 2014 #4

That's exactly what it is ... etherealtruth Mar 2014 #28

A tenuous grasp on reality and only a slightly less tenuous grasp on the English language. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #5

gosh, Thanks. I thought it was only me. I am Not Understanding what they are writing. Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2014 #8

It might be mercuryblues Mar 2014 #9

so fuckin funny. i love it. (i am suppose to stop cussin, but that DESERVED, seabeyond Mar 2014 #13

thank you mercuryblues Mar 2014 #19

lol. i think it was more a poster in gd that set the cussin' off. i will start working, .... seabeyond Mar 2014 #20

I agree. This man is an ass-backwards wankstain. AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #22

Do we know it was a man? NYC_SKP Mar 2014 #23

When someone utters "PC"... LanternWaste Mar 2014 #24

It's code for ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #25

I can't get past the fact that it's written on a napkin. MadrasT Mar 2014 #26

the two-decade anti-"PC" campaign has proven very useful MisterP Mar 2014 #27