@engineer,
engineer wrote:
When someone talks about political correctness, they are trying to silence free speech. The way it is supposed to work is that you can say whatever you want and if I find your comment offensive, I can say so. The answer to bad free speech is more free speech. We can debate it in the public sphere. When someone moans about "political correctness" what they are saying is "I want to say what I want and if you don't like it, I want you to stay silent." It's like saying something really offensive to someone and when they complain, saying "just get over it". A comedian (or anyone else) can say something offensive. Someone else can call them on it. That's great. I have a problem when someone says "oh I can't say offensive stuff anymore because of political correctness!" No one is stopping your speech and there are more outlets for expressing your opinions than ever before. You can say all the offensive stuff you want. No one is stopping you, but you can't demand that everyone else stay silent.
What are you babbling on about? I didn't ask for an explanation what political correctness means to you. Irrelevant and out of the blue reply. Nor was I saying anything strongly for or against defending political incorrectness. Weird how you're assuming I'm preaching some monstrously conservative statement for unbridled speech to be considered free. Where did you get that from in my short answer correcting MP on Linkat's gender and noting she's been posting ambiguous PC related threads with absolutely no context to indicate if her thread is facetious or earnest.
Please don't read between the lines. It doesn't suit you.
You can't say my own personal posting history reflects that hate and sexist speech should be completely free to be projected wherever and whenever. Because it means you haven't been reading what I post here for the past 9+ years.
I'm for deleting conspiracy theories, sexist, and racist remarks from a2k. You apparently post here in some kind of weirdly aloof high ground. Do you think my Tsarstepan account is just a secondary account for … Hawkeye? For someone who's been here since 2004, you really don't pay too much attention to your fellow long term posters.