PC culture revealed to be a game for the privileged

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...orities-dislike-political-correctness/572581/

The article admits the difficulty of defining "political correctness" but the numbers are still telling.

Check your microaggressions, bruh.

I got your microaggression hangin'

We can define it by different aspects, but I think people know what it is when they see it.

And as for the idea that aversion to PC culture is a mark of covert racism:

well count me among the 18 percent that do not think "hate speech" is a problem. It's kind of like "hate crime." Speech is speech & crime is crime. The hate might be a classification but don't tangibly change speech or crime.

kind of intriguing that folks are anti PC but also against that which it exists to combat.

Oh, bullshit.
This is that "the average Joe has this 'deeper wisdom', that those city-fied academics don't understand", shit.
This bit of pseudo-argument in our dumb culture is why I have to hear shit like "I knew she was guilty just by looking at her!", in cop shows.
No, you fucking didn't.
If you're such a human lie detector, join the police force, and solve crimes, and save lives.
Or read poker faces at a Vegas casino, and clean up, and help your family.
You don't see that, do ya?
Nope, people just say that shit to be a mix of self-righteous, and "the smartest person in the room".
Y'know who's the smartest guy in the room?
The crime lab guy.
Y'know, the fucking academic.

Same applies to every single one of these "I know it when I see it", arguments, whether it be art vs porn, be it PC-ness, or phony baloney miracles vs magic tricks, or dipshits that think they can outsmart the street con-artist.

Yeah, maybe some people can read shit with instinct that other people have to crack by plowing through reams of data.
But with EVERYONE claiming they can fucking do it, there's a lot of lying deluded fucking morons out there.

I'm not going to trust the judgement of herds of morons.
I want a guy with a piece of paper that shows he's not a moron.

They asked "the guy on the street"?
Whoopidy-fucking-dooo!

"I want a guy with a piece of paper that shows he's not a moron."

Plenty of people with papers who are morons.

Well...yeah...Ben Carson is supposedly a brain surgeon.

That wasn't the point at all. Nice tangent rant, though.

You're welcome.

It's possible to agree with the ends but not the means. And the point here is that's exactly how most Americans see the situation.

As I've said before, Political Correctness is the idea that any time you express a thought, someone somewhere may find that thought offensive and you are therefore a bad person for having it.

You were wrong before and you're wrong now.

Well, since you said it, it must be true.

Yes, because I'm a smarter and generally better person than both of you combined.

If thoughts aren't supposed to offend people, then stop whining about political correctness.

I guess you have to be privileged enough to be able to afford a personal computer and a place to set it up. Then probably you need to have the time and brain power to learn about gaming and the internet so I guess PC culture is for the privileged. But not as much as apple culture. That is really for the snobby elite pricks of the universe.

The games and the internet connection aren't free either.

Whoomp there it is

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I wonder if they asked what did the people think PC culture was when asking them. That idea seems to range from just “not being an asshole” to “we have to ban all movies about white men because all of them are sexist, even cartoons.” Most people are against the extreme Tumblr shit, but that’s just the opinions of extremists amplified by the Internet and social media.

Most people are PC due to social pressure, it’s why you don’t hear as many racist jokes in public anymore, you have to go to Dinner’s house for that.

okay I admit when I saw "PC culture" I thought the thread was about computers until I read on.

At the risk of a facepalm - I've had this discussion with some liberal friends in the past. IIRC, the conclusion we came to is that there's some Political Correctness that is definitely correct, and some that is just silly, and some that is over the top. So, just like everything else, I guess.

Correct would be, just don't say shit that you know offends people who don't deserve offending. Silly would be something like thinking the word "student" has negative connotations, so we must call them "young learners." Over the top would be like CNN's recent declaration that guests aren't allowed to use the word "mob" when talking about a mob; they must say "mass of upset people" or something like that - the clip I saw was Brooke Baldwin telling a guest "oh no, no, we're not using the M-word." YMMV.

And notice how the use of language changes the meaning. "Mob" implies disorder, trouble, violence, lawlessness. "Mass of upset people" is merely an unhappy group of people.

If you mean "mob," say mob.

We've always had political correctness; it's just that it used to be almost 100% devoted to protecting the feelings of the privileged majority.

Now that that's changed, it's suddenly a problem.

They’re called the Glorious PC Master Race.

I marked this post "Winner," because it's exactly right. I dunno, can you see rep from people you're ignoring?

Yes.