The problem with P.C. conversation is that it can be used to silence people that bring up an inconvenient truth. To be a little self-centric, today under the Weekly Feminist Reader posting of feminsting Renee of Womanist Musings had posted (posted to What's so wrong with being P.C.?)
As I stated, when controlling for religousosity race is still a statistically significant factor. It is not as strong as religiousoty, but it is still a factor. The Linkhttp: http://www.ncsu.edu/stud_affairs/glbt/pdfs/Prop%208%20Report.pdf I am accessing this from my university internet... so you (posted to What's so wrong with being P.C.?)
This is boardering on being a fantastically distracting derail... I addressed your points in the second to last and last paragraphs of the comment you responded to, where I explained the values from the graph on page 8. Page 5 (posted to What's so wrong with being P.C.?)
That comment is so, so, frustrating on so many levels. I am not the best sociologist... but I know that in the United States black culture is different than white culture. Case in point, the norms and mores regarding homosexuality. (posted to What's so wrong with being P.C.?)
Agreed. PC is useful insofar as it causes us to think about what we really want to say and examine our own prejudices, and to consider the feelings of others when we say it. But it goes too far when (posted to What's so wrong with being P.C.?)
The people who noted that P.C. is often used to stifle dissent are hitting it head-on. But there's another aspect to P.C. that's also problematic, which is the first word-- political. Politics change. How many people decided to throw in (posted to What's so wrong with being P.C.?)
"Australia" does a pretty good job of emulating Nicole Kidman's lusty gaze, which I appreciated... it's so unusual! Usually it's only the women who the camera leers at while said actress is unclad, oiled, and precisely/provocatively-posed... this time, it was (posted to What defines a feminist movie? Ruminations from The Wire....)
I'm going to have to concur with Tracey T here. More examples: "Lame" and "Uncool." People use them in the same context, one is ableist one is not. "Throws like a girl" and "They can't throw." People use them in (posted to What's so wrong with being P.C.?)
Don't forget "gypped". I'm sometimes tempted to use the phrase "Indian giver", since the accepted meaning (give something only to take it back as soon as it's convenient) is pretty close to how we (the US and its gov't) treated (posted to What's so wrong with being P.C.?)
