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Old July 16th, 2008, 09:14 PM
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Default Re: Real-world sensitivities and game names

Agema, I disagree that PC is being used to label some sort of conspiratorial plot perpetuated upon the American (or otherwise) conscious as a Liberal bid to somehow take the stuffing out of arguments pro-human rights/human dignity. I agree about the conspiracy, but it's my feeling that it goes a little bit deeper and more insidiously than that.

PC, atleast the term as I use it, has the meaning of morally forcing terms which emulsify and homogenize human experience, detracting from the elements of those experiences which make diversification valuable, and either ignoring everything that goes into being a human, if it's deemed somehow unsuitable for public consumption, or Disney-fying it, and feeding it to the public, as if they're all sweet, elderly spinsters with little or no worldly experience.

It's call *political* correctness for a reason, and that reason is that PC is the idea behind the intentionally limited language used to filter the speeches of politicians, in order that they come out as wholesome as possible, so as to offend the least numbers of their constituents with their choice of wordage-facilitated by the fact that, as I mentioned, it is a limited language.
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