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I challenge you to find a more succinct term that gets the same point across.

Politically correct speech pays a heavy price in expressiveness, especially of the banned ideas. It is kind of the point. What did I save up the points for, if not to spend it to say what I actually want, rather than gesture at it ineffectively?

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> I challenge you to find a more succinct term that gets the same point across.

“unattractive” a word you yourself already used. If you read the guidelines of the site, you’d understand the difference and why it’s important.

Ugly and unattractive aren't the same thing.

Then use “ugly”, rather than a pejorative term meant to ridicule. As an illustrative example, “ugly person” is to “uggos” as “fat person” is to “fatso”.

I agree, I’m not the person arguing that.

Yup, I know. You just were pointing out the difference so I wanted to explain my POV further to clarify.

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