correctness

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Offensive?

Faye @FayeHazel (40230) • United States 7 Feb 18

Are people too easily offended? I don't know. I'm the sort of person who would hate to think that I had hurt someone's feelings. But I think sometimes the political correctness gets taken a bit too far. Some of my oft used...

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Mindless Drone of a Crybaby Sociey?

staycyde @stacysdeadright (232) • United States 28 Mar 17

I have been hearing people refer to this generation's need to be politically correct as a sign of weakness. Is this true, are we a mindless drone of the crybaby society, or are you just insensitive to people who are different...

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Who gives in to Political Correctness?

beautifulBrooke @beautifulBrooke (191) • United States 26 Oct 09

Whether we are ready for it or not, the retail industy will penetrate our souls with the holiday season which almost turns us into zombies for a few months. This question/discussion is specifically about Christmas. Since we do...

merry christmas

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My views on political correctness and Christmas

SantaPants @SantaPants (81) 9 Oct 09

I posted this as a reply to a previous discussion but I realised it was a year old, and instead of losing my words I thought I'd start a new thread as I think it's good to discuss it. It was discussing companies who are afraid...

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What is the dumbest 'politically correct' thing you've run into?

kingcrapper @kingcrapper (1536) • United States 9 Mar 08

Nowadays we have to be politically correct not to say anything that offend anyone or step on anyone's toes. But is that really a helpfull thing? Are we all walking on egg shells so we don't hurt anyone's feelings? What is the...

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Correctness in Language

BourderHouse @BourderHouse (749) • Philippines 26 Feb 07

I'm currently in the process of writing an essay on how political correctness, in both spoken and written language, affects our culture. The term "euphemism" comes up often when addressing politically correct speech. For those...

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Which one do you support: free speech or political correctness?

weezy250m @weezy250m (1892) • United States 23 Jan 07

Which one do you support: free speech or political correctness?

American Political Correctness (PC) takes a trip to Europe.

andygogo @andygogo (1579) • China 1 Jan 07

Sounds exciting, well, it's just plain dumb actually! Of course the Euros will take credit for this, but we all know it was probably started by a couple idiots from California! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10372536/ Can you...