"He's not politically correct."
It's as if people who rage against political correctness don't understand what it means. It means showing respect and being polite and not using pejoratives. That's all.
It's as if people who rage against political correctness don't understand what it means. It means showing respect and being polite and not using pejoratives. That's all.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/what-it...
That's the other thing I think people are reacting to. There's a double standard where it's okay to slur rural white Americans but nobody else.
IMHO it's about classism as opposed to racism. Racism is taboo in American discourse but classism and urban elitism (placeism?) are not.
Maybe the answer is to define PC as you do and extend it to cover classism, placeism, and reverse stereotyping. Maybe it should just be taboo to be an asshole.
My point was that your average left-leaning person is not immune from this.