Some absurd examples of political correctness -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y22IFULtpY

political correctness is a mental straightjacket. It's come to the point where it's better just to cause offense than to jump through hoops trying to avoid it.

Political correctness is a tool used by liberals to make moral principles relative and political ideals absolute, so "good" and "evil" becomes a matter of policy, under their control.

It doesn't matter what you do, by causing offense or trying to avoid it you're being an useful idiot. If you cause offense, it becomes even more absurd, as you're implying the current constraints are not enough. By trying to avoid it, you're being constrained.

The best approach to deal with political correctness is to expose the political ideal behind it. No offense, no jumping, just expose it as the manipulation it is and move on.

Political correctness is a tool used by liberals to make moral principles relative and political ideals absolute

Laughably incorrect.

The best approach to deal with political correctness is to expose the political ideal behind it.

Or just ignore it.

Yeah, sure. Thanks for enlightening me with your wisdom.

The irony of you rethuglicans who get offended by Hollywood, gays, blacks, porn and jokes about your rethuglican heroes getting bashed calling others PC.

Grow up.

There will always be people who are offended by things in basically every major group. Political correctness does not seem to me to be the powerful force some make it out to be. People have been "crusading" against political correctness for decades now and they always act like it's some bold new rebellion when it's been done to death. Some people use it as an excuse to shut down an argument or dismiss a rival viewpoint.

I don't remember political correctness being a thing, under whatever terminology, prior to the late 80s/early 90s.

(And what I have in mind by political correctness is the whole ideology re beliefs about how meaning works and how "embedded" meaning can harm others and so on.)

I know.

At work we call Caucasians white boys. When we talk about caucasian females we see we just call 'em white girls. Call it like it is I say.

If we did more of that we probably wouldn't have all these white boys blowing up federal buildings and shooting up a scool every month...it would give them an outlet.

It is everywhere.

The creeping corporate meatball is certainly exerting its control over the internet. Too much censorship, too many passwords, too much authoritarian control, too many commercials, too little freedom and too little quality content.

Now every message board has an offensive moderator system of censorship in place, with special verification hoops to jump through just to sign up, and absurd long lists of 'naughty words' that are automatically verboten.

I preferred the Wild West early days of the internet...there were no moderators, no censorship, no passwords, no nothing. Say anything you want. Use any words you want. Be as 'vulgar' as you like. They're just words. It was called 'Newsgroups' and Usenet.

No such thing as 'vulgar' - we made it up.

This brief window was the only time in the history of humanity when true free speech was possible for every person.

Now the corporate censors are moving in and taking over under the guise of capitalist business.

A grim day for humanity as we watch it all fade away.
Now go watch another commercial on U-tube.

People taking advantage of the concept of political correctness is inevitable just as people who claim to be proudly politically incorrect to cover up that they're racist, sexist, or homophobic or whatever else is considered unacceptable in today's society. It's funny how internet contrarians refuse to accept that variation unless it's in their favor.

It's not so hard to have an honest discussion without offending people as opponents of PC always try to make it out to be-who are surely going to emphatically disagree with me on time in some incorrect fashion.

Hate is never correct !

Do you prefer ugly truths or comfortable lies? If I say black people like fried chicken, do you tell me I'm wrong or do you tell me I'm racist? If you tell me I'm racist, you're the one making conversation difficult, by turning a question truth (regular correctness) into a question of morality (political correctness). Very bad manners on your part.

I think his point is that people often dismiss arguments and research they dislike by accusing them of hiding "harsh truths" and being PC regardless of the validity of the arguments or research. For example, any research that's against spanking is generally dismissed as just being PC by some people.