Inspired by the “un-PC Beliefs” thread, what are some extremely PC beliefs that you hold? I’ll start with a few, but I’m a huge bleeding heart so I could easily fill up pages.
Racial discrimination on a large and small scale continues to be a force today. We have come a long way, but we are nowhere near being able to say we have solved the problem.
Likewise, gender discrimination is huge.
Global climate change is real, and a problem.
This is simultaneously very PC and very un-PC:
Third-world countries have very different values than first-world countries; ours are better, and we should be trying to change their minds.
(It becomes PC when the value in question happens to be something like women’s rights; it becomes un-PC when the value happens to be free markets.)
Whether or not that is PC sort of depends on which political party one lines up with, doesn’t it? We call it “global climate change” instead of “global warming” now, because the global temperature fluctuates both up and down, and it’s all the fault of American big business, right? I’ll have to say that it sounds like weapons-grade bullshit to me, especially since the people who are pushing for the taxes that will supposedly make the temperature of the planet stay the same all of the time are all poised to make a profit.
That is what we’re after, right? To make the temperature of the planet stay the same all of the time?
I dont know whose fault it is, but I’ve seen the results first hand. Something is happening.
Care to elaborate? It’s kind of tough to respond to something so vague.
I absolutely agree on the racial discrimination thing. And it’s so subtle now, that it’s hard to point to and say “There is is”. But you try being non-white, you’ll feel it fast enough. Not that I am saying white people don’t get it…some do, but lots don’t.
I have always (even as a child) believed “You don’t criticize people for things they can’t change.” This includes race, nationality, handicaps and sexual orientation.
The change in the name from “Global warming” to “global climate change” is not because of any change in the underlying science, BTW. It’s because whenever we hit a cold spell, someone would say, “See? There is no global warming.” But all scientific discussions of global warming indicate that it will cause things like more snowstorms and blizzards. It never meant that anything about global warming had actually changed.
And, yes, the science clearly supports global climate change.
That reminds me.
I was taught not to level criticisms at people when they aren’t present to defend themselves.
But… that’s the very best time! 
Even a cripple can shoot you dead.
Try being non-Polish in a Polish town. It ain’t all about skin color. Culture is involved, as is perceived heredity. Grandmothers disappointed that their granddaughter would date “one of those [other white] people,” etc.
Personally, I don’t think it’s appropriate to blame every damned thing on racism, sexism, genderism, or any other “ism.” People are either assholes or they’re not.
It’s not easy to lose weight. What you have to do is simple- eat less and/or exercise more. But simple things are not always easy to do. It’s one of those things that is easy to do in theory, hard in practice. Some people have a harder time with it than others, just like some people have a harder time quitting drinking or smoking than others.
When we talk about a diet “working”, we shouldn’t just consider whether people who stick to it lose weight. We should also consider how many people who try it can stick to it, and whether or not they gain the weight back.
There is no diet that is going to work for everybody who tries it. People and how they eat are too individual for that.
Religious and non-religious people should be left to get on with whatever they’re doing, as long as they aren’t harming anybody else.
It’s your right as an adult to harm yourself, if you want to. Businesses that provide products known to be harmful should have to tell you they’re harmful (with things like warning labels on cigarette packages), but they shouldn’t be forbidden to provide the products. It is not, however, your right to harm others. This means drugs should be legalized, but things like driving under the influence of drugs, or smoking indoors in public places, shouldn’t be.
Not everybody who wants a pet should be able to get one. If you abuse animals, or want to keep dogs that are a danger to your neighbors, you shouldn’t be allowed to have them.
Pit bulls (or any other breed or type of dogs) are not the problem, unneutered male dogs (and, to a lesser degree, unspayed female dogs) are.
There are assholes around. One way in which people are assholes is that they are racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. Other assholes are equal-opportunity assholes, and are mean to everybody. They’re all assholes.
Anyone who wants food, shelter, or necessary medical treatment should be able to get it, regardless of ability to pay. No one should go bankrupt paying for those things, either.
Um, no. It depends on “reality”, and the best tool we have for that is called “science”.
Other cultures are equally valid. You don’t have to *like *everything about every culture, but you do have to respect the fact that you weren’t born into the one right way of doing things (or that there is no one right way). Likewise, you need to acknowledge your relative ignorance and lack of perspective and take those into account if you presume to criticize alien cultural practices.
Yep. I’m a white guy, the vast majority of my acquaintances are white. I’m in New York, we’re all liberal, enlightened folk. I never hear any misogynistic or homophobic things being said in private, but racist bits slip by all the damn time.