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An A-to-Z guide to the new PC
Spectator ^ | 7 February 2015 | Brendan O'Neill

Posted on 02/21/2015 12:24:31 PM PST by aquila48

Anyone who thought political correctness had croaked, joining neon leg warmers, mullets and MC Hammer in the graveyard of bad ideas from the late 1980s and 1990s, should think again. When even someone as gay-friendly and Guardian-hued as Benedict Cumberbatch can be hounded for incorrectness, you know no one’s safe. So what can you say? Here’s an A-to-Z guide to the new PC.

A is for America. One-time land of the free, founded by un-PC white dudes partial to a drink and sex with slaves, but more recently the birthplace of identity politics (see under I) and 21st-century taboos (see everything below).

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This guy is in the same class as Steyn, not quite the same style but similarly incisive and unafraid.
1 posted on 02/21/2015 12:24:31 PM PST by aquila48
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To: aquila48

PC?

I refuse.


2 posted on 02/21/2015 12:30:50 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: aquila48

Political Correctness = mind control

Political Directness = Freedom

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3 posted on 02/21/2015 12:30:51 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: aquila48

Hilarious ridicule of Political Correctness. A codification of leftist dogma that attempts to neutralize language until many perfectly good words lose all meaning. Language is twisted until it fits the weird contours of leftist ideology that, as always, has little connection to reality.


4 posted on 02/21/2015 12:34:21 PM PST by Jim Scott
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To: aquila48

As the comments sum up..funny, brilliant and to me, the kicker, scary.


5 posted on 02/21/2015 12:36:41 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: aquila48

Very good.


6 posted on 02/21/2015 12:36:49 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: aquila48

So not about a new computer?


7 posted on 02/21/2015 12:43:02 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

I figured some of you would be disappointed :).


8 posted on 02/21/2015 12:45:05 PM PST by aquila48
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To: aquila48

It’s been a while since I got a new PC. The old ones still do video just fine. Do I really need a new one?


9 posted on 02/21/2015 12:54:38 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: aquila48

What I got out of it was that if two brothers cross-dress, we can refer to them as trans-sisters.


10 posted on 02/21/2015 12:55:15 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: aquila48
I find political correctness offensive.

"If everyone stopped being so PC,
Maybe we could live in harmony." -- Avenue Q

11 posted on 02/21/2015 12:57:27 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Jim Scott

Ridicule? That’s not allowed. It might hurt someone’s feelings.


12 posted on 02/21/2015 12:58:09 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: aquila48

What nick are you supposed to use when referring to one’s transmission?


13 posted on 02/21/2015 1:01:38 PM PST by Paladin2
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Reminds of a time when commenting here on FR; I referred to LGBT collectively as sodomites; a freeper promptly corrected me saying that sodomite only refers to (his word) “buggering” and that is referring to gays/homosexuals and excluded all other groupings.

Although tempted, I chose not to suffer the fool and get into a pissing contest, I abhor PC in any and all forms; I prefer to just “tells it as I sees it”; be it known if one does not like it; I don’t give a damn...LGBT (”at this point what difference does it make”) they are all sodomites and that’s the way I sees it; stick PC where the sun don’t shine.


14 posted on 02/21/2015 1:12:40 PM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: aquila48

PC is a set of shackles, designed to tighten one click at a time.


15 posted on 02/21/2015 1:32:09 PM PST by lurk
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Very funny. But it’s also very frightening that we have come to this place.


16 posted on 02/21/2015 2:22:25 PM PST by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwel)
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