I worry about political correctness because of the impact on free speech. Okay, hate speech is bad and causes problems. Emotional abuse is not good. But when you start banning specific words or topics or beliefs, or mandating that people speak in specific ways which are pleasing to someone else, well ... all the historic examples of that consistently lead to horrible places. :/
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Date: 2017-08-19 09:54 pm (UTC)I worry about political correctness because of the impact on free speech. Okay, hate speech is bad and causes problems. Emotional abuse is not good. But when you start banning specific words or topics or beliefs, or mandating that people speak in specific ways which are pleasing to someone else, well ... all the historic examples of that consistently lead to horrible places. :/