2026-03-14 09:42 UTC
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@bluebabbler@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 09:50
@jensorensen To be honest, I’ve never got what’s so wrong with ‘political correctness’.
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@zed@mstdn.party 2026-03-14 11:37
@jensorensen even from the beginning, using “politically correct” as a negative just meant “I’m upset I can’t openly be racist.”
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@Shredd_Tone@equestria.social 2026-03-14 11:56
@jensorensen So basically, anyone who can't make an argument or a counter argument about the basic needs and rights of mankind has to resort to mockery of vague verbal name calling to make themselves feel good aka dismissing it all out of hand without any argument to stand on? :rainbowhuh: Weird times! :ponegrimacing:
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@linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io 2026-03-14 13:18
@jensorensen Having been left-adjacent before the 90s, back then we used it to describe someone who thought eating a pulled pork sandwich was the same as giving aid to Newt Gingrich. Then Poppy Bush used it in a 1991 speech and Bill Maher got his talk show, and it metastasized into a right wing cudgel.
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@PeachMcD@union.place 2026-03-14 13:54
@jensorensen I was there & saw it first hand. The right didn't like women saying they didn't like guys they didn't even know calling them 'girl, honey, babe'. They didn't like Black men saying 'don't call me boy'. They didn't like gays saying 'don't call me fag' So they consulted their marketing people & had George Bush the First call all the people who listened a nasty name
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@matera@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-03-14 15:04
@jensorensen I think PC has gone so far it'stime for it to do a 180. Bigotry and hate are now politically "correct"
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@HisVirusness@mastodon.social 2026-03-14 18:13
@jensorensen Funny thing is, dog whistles by their very nature is "politically correct speech"; they won't say what they really mean because they know it's unpalatable, so they have to dress it up in a way that's recognizable to those who are in the know, but innocuous to someone coming in fresh.