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Firing was over-reactionFiring was over-reactionPosted Mar 24, 2013 7:54 UTC (Sun) by sjj (subscriber, #2020)In reply to: Firing was over-reaction by HelloWorld Parent article: Blum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
"Political Correctness" is a term used in the US by right wingers to denigrate those who want to use inclusive terms when referring to groups of people. Like humankind vs. mankind, Also when groups of people don't want to use an outsider-given name of their group (sexual minorities' names have often been slurs, ethnic groups have been named by their neighbors or enemies etc).
It's most often used by people who occupy a cultural position of privilege (white male being the typical example) who get offended when people in positions of less cultural power ask for respectful terms to be used. For certain people, this request is highly offensive because they see undermining their power to set the terms of discourse in society.
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Firing was over-reaction Posted Mar 24, 2013 16:27 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]
> It's most often used by people who occupy a cultural position of privilege who get offended when people in positions of less cultural power ask for respectful terms to be used.
"Most often" people qualifying something as "politically correct" are more amused than offended.
Firing was over-reaction Posted Mar 24, 2013 22:53 UTC (Sun) by sjj (subscriber, #2020) [Link]
Do you find it amusing if someone asks not to be referred to in a derogatory or exclusionary manner?
Firing was over-reaction Posted Mar 24, 2013 23:14 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
This has degraded into the "have you stopped beating your wife yet" type of rhetoric, can we please stop now?
Firing was over-reaction Posted Mar 24, 2013 23:58 UTC (Sun) by sjj (subscriber, #2020) [Link]
Yeah, I think you're right.
Firing was over-reaction Posted Mar 24, 2013 23:34 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]
OK I think I understand the misunderstanding now... you have in fact no clue what people have on their mind when they use the words "politically correct".
Before expressing your problem(s) with these words please go and do some reading until you understand a tiny bit when, how and why people actually use them. I'm not asking you to agree - just to have a vague idea of what you are talking about.
> Do you find it amusing if someone asks not to be referred to in a derogatory or exclusionary manner?
In general: no. In rare cases like this PyCon story: yes, it can be quite ridiculous sometimes.
Firing was over-reaction Posted Mar 24, 2013 23:57 UTC (Sun) by sjj (subscriber, #2020) [Link]
I said pretty clearly what I think of the "political correctness" argument above. You chose not to explain what you mean by it, but instead attack me for insufficient mind reading of "what people have on their mind".
<smile>Goodbye.</smile>
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