it's making the country worse, every time someone is "offended" by comments that are actually true just makes me wanna throw up
IMO people aren't keeping a lot of the comments they should keep to themselves to themselves anymore. Doesn't matter if they're "true."
IMO thanks to things like the internet where people get used to saying whatever they feel at any time I think it's translating to "real life."
Used to be people got by with either ignoring others or giving dirty looks.
A while ago I was in a grocery store and I kept hearing people walk by this fat lady on a shopping cart scooter making all sorts of snide, denigrating toned, comments as they passed her making sure she could hear them. "Fat btch should be in jenny craig not krogers, should be walking for food not riding this isn't a drive thru, she's so fat, that btch smells fat, being real," nasty comments.
If people kept the vitriol to themselves in public, if self control of emotionally driven comments in public was improving with the availability of anonymous online venting which you can choose to not read, I would still agree with the whole "pc is crap! f' pc! pc in the toilet! It's ruining the country! I'm politically incorrect!"
But that's not happening.
IMO people are becoming more emboldened to spout whatever they feel about others at any time, any place, demanding others accept and validate it. Not the truth of the words so much as the emotions driving them.
If people can't keep things to themselves...someone is going to draw lines somewhere to designate what's acceptable.
That's just reality.
IMO that's what "pc" is and what "pc" is meant to be applied to.
Not those capable of living in polite society, letting the fat lady do her grocery shopping without narration, keeping comments meant to hurt others to themselves.
I remember having to pick up a grandma from a nursing home for thanksgiving once and drive her to dinner.
She had an accident on the ride. I had no idea she wore adult diapers.
She smelled so bad. I was driving with my head partway out the window.
I couldn't just leave her by herself in the car so had to bring her into a store with me as I got her clean ones so her sister could change her. She had no idea who I was.
If while doing that some guy started walking around us in the store saying "man that btch stinks! She crapped herself! Jesus that's bad. That crazy ol' btch f'ing smells like sht! You should just dump her in a home man and let her die! This isn't a sewage treatmant facility, get that fat old crazy crap smelling btch out of here!"
am I supposed to say "you know what? You're right. I was going to tell you to shut up and watch your mouth...but that'd be telling you to be PC. And that's ruining the country You're just being politically incorrect while speaking the truth."
Or am I supposed to simply be a silent punching bag for an emotional verbal assault until we got out of there.
If all old ladies everywhere start getting dumped on by groups for leaving their home for the way they smell (crap, perfume too strong, cats, mothballs, whatever) it can't just be the responsibility of each individual interaction anymore.
IMO anymore I think "PC" should really be "WBPCF" Widespread Bad Parenting and Community Failure.
People stop taking responsibility for what comes out of their mouth, believing that "truth" is some sort of legal defense against civility, then government pushing "political correctness" is a natural consequence.
