So PC is the absolute truth, everything else is just bias?

To understand phenmomenas of all kinds it is often useful to have a look onto history. More specially, on the history of origins.
Google "PC", google "DWEM", and make up a mind of your own.

I grew up in a world without PC, then i saw "it" being introduced into all kinds of discussions. One interesting recurring pattern was that those PC-archpriests always had an agenda, so i for myself deeply mistrust them.


It´s a very sharp, two sided sword; so far you´re right.
But i can also understand discords deep frustration about politics.

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I believe I already addressed this question. Lets see... Oh, right. I did. Fancy that. I guess maybe you just assumed I was implying a double standard when I did in fact say no such thing?

I googled PC, got a bunch of stuff about personal computers. I googled Politically Correct and I got some information about how it was used sarcastically in the seventies, and how it was used as a pejorative by the right in their culture war nonsense. I googled DWEM, I got some urban dictionary results about some irrelevant insults. I don't see what any of those have to do with anything.

I suggest you try reading up a bit on Framing Effects

We are talking about President's Choice right? (disarm situation DC15 roll:d20+4 for using Humour level 2)

ice: not knowing the truth and actively misleading are two VERY different things, admittedly it can be difficult to see which is which from outside of the persons skull(or from the inside, considering how much double talk politicians do, it goes to reason that there is lots of double or triple think too.)
and proposing penalty for people who's job is to keep us informed so we can make informed choices actively misleading us(the public), does not seem like such a large stretch.

Your Google is broken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_white_males

HTH.


Humour. Rare it is these days.

There plenty around, it just that people seem to seek it less than other and/or than before. (oh my god! Were all slowly becoming some old coots!)


By the way, we all come from different country/workplace/education, Don't assume someone will automatically know what your acronym mean. If i say BDI or MAFS. One will probably not know what am talking about. Even a Google search will lead to wrong result about what it is. (for those curious BDI stand for Battery Discharge Indicator and MAFS for Mass Air Flow sensor)

Eh ... I'd say that technical acronyms are more likely to be understandable, at least, when used in context.

But yeah. We are turning old. Or at least feel like we are. I think the humor issue is that 'our' (loosely speaking) senses of humor, while possibly more mainstream when we were younger, has since slipped out of the mainstream.
In other words, kids these days have a crap sense of humor (from our various perspectives).

What does this have to do with the concept characters page?

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I saw the page about Dead White Males. What I failed to see was how it is relevant to this discussion, given the context of your argument. Yes, people can be insulting, and yes, sometimes they insult majority groups instead of minority groups. Just because someone is in a majority group doesn't mean you shouldn't try to be nice to them.

Politically Correct: Language, ideas, policies and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, religious beliefs or ideologies, disability and age related contexts.

In other words, don't be a dick.

Thread drift. It happens. You'll get used to it.


Unfortunately, what does or does not constitute "being a dick" can, to an extent, depend upon one's perspective.

And you cherry-picked the quota. Lemme do some reverse cherry-picking, maybe it becomes clearer:

HTH (Hope That Helps).


Please see javcs answer above. My own words would be a leetle bit less diplomatic.

Yep, sorry for that one. "DWEM" were the first pages of hits when i switched my Google from german to english, and the context was clear (to me), so i used it without further thinking.

Oh, and BTW, after a not-so-pleasant PN(private note)-exchange with Arioch i found out that "MILF" (internal link inside, no worry) obviously has a negative connotation in the US (like almost all sex-related things obviously ) which is definitely not the case here in Germany, so i also used it without further thinking (and kind of wondered about some reactions).

If somebody felt offendend by this, i apologize.

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My point is that people are going to have different opinions on things, but if you don't even try, you're not going to succeed. From the opponents perspective, PC means censorship, and I agree that censorship isn't right, but thats not what everyone means by the term.

Eh ... I blame the FCC and the rest of the Feds. But mainly the conservative jaggalodons that are simultaneously opposed to government involvement in any- and every-thing and yet push for more government control over what people are and/or are not allowed to do, say, see, feel, etc.

I would appreciate it, Trantor, if you would not put words in my mouth. I never said anything about the MILF comment.

This conversation has nothing to do with with the topic of the thread, or the first or second digression of the thread, and it certainly has nothing to do with Outsider.

If you want to have pissing contests over your pet political peeves, do it somewhere else.