# Has Political Correctness Gone Mad?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-political-correctness-gone-mad/780590
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [February 23, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-political-correctness-gone-mad/780590 "2017-02-23T20:27:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2017, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-political-correctness-gone-mad/780590/41 "2017-02-24T04:19:00Z")
> [@Jefferson](#):
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> HEADS UP - for those that aren’t aware:
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> In my haste I forgot to mention Trevor’s documentary is on TONIGHT Ch4 at 9.00pm - 10.00pm Ch4 +1.
You haven’t left me enough time to reserve my flight to the UK.
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### Author:  [@Jefferson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jefferson)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2017, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-political-correctness-gone-mad/780590/42 "2017-02-24T08:59:21Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Why should I? I’ve never even heard of this guy before.
American, eh. You only read anything by people you’ve heard of then. How odd.
Did ANYONE see the documentary last night? We do have some Brits on here don’t we?
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### Author:  [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2017, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-political-correctness-gone-mad/780590/43 "2017-02-24T09:32:04Z")
Y’know, we just had another thread on this.
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=817829](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=817829)
And you know what happened there? Everyone talked past each other, because nobody knew what other people meant by “Political Correctness”. So just as a general rule of thumb, whenever I see “Political Correctness” and that poster has not defined what that term means to them, I’m going to just mentally replace it with “flibbertygibbets” and see if that makes the post spontaneously start to make sense. :mad:
How about you start, OP, by defining what you mean by “political correctness”? What is it? How is it defined? What does it encompass?
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#):
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> Interpreting “shut other white people down” and “until we shut our mouths and we listen” as “shouldn’t hog the microphone” is _extremely_ charitable.
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> Especially as she later goes on to say “I am talking to people of color because you have the answers, you can tell me as a leader what I need to do …” [she goes on to say “… and that’s exactly what I’m going to do” which sounds even worse, but it’s unclear whether this is referring to what people of color have told her to do or "continu[ing] to have those conversations …]
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> So basically I certainly agree that objecting to White people hogging the microphone is not political correctness, but I don’t agree that that’s what’s being said (especially as I don’t agree that White people are hogging the microphone to begin with).More and more things are being viewed through racial lenses and as racial issues.
That’s not “charitable”, that is the context in which the statement is made. That is what it _means_. It’s like saying it’s charitable to interpret “we don’t need no water let the motherfuckers burn” as a song reference just because you don’t listen to the bloodhound gang.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-political-correctness-gone-mad/780590/44 "2017-02-24T10:56:19Z")
> [@Jefferson](#):
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> American, eh.
He’s Canadian, eh?
> [@](#):
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> Did ANYONE see the documentary last night? We do have some Brits on here don’t we?
Oh yeah, there are a lot (well, more than one) of Brits on the board who love to criticize America for being too liberal. Bewildering, but there it is.
Would you care to paraphrase Philips arguments for us? In the interest of debate?
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2017, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-political-correctness-gone-mad/780590/45 "2017-02-24T11:55:20Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#):
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> …
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> How about you start, OP, by defining what you mean by “political correctness”? …
Don’t hold your breath waiting.
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### Author:  [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-political-correctness-gone-mad/780590/46 "2017-02-24T14:19:12Z")
> [@Bone](#):
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> Given how Trevor is not here and you ostensibly are, a more fleshed out topic for debate would be helpful if you actually want discussion. If not, it seems more along the lines of, ‘let’s you and him fight’ kind of thing which is frowned on.
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> I’ll let you reply once more with an attempt to posit an actual debate before I close the thread. So what do you think?
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> [/moderating]
> [@Jefferson](#):
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> American, eh. You only read anything by people you’ve heard of then. How odd.
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> Did ANYONE see the documentary last night? We do have some Brits on here don’t we?
I see no debate posited. Closed.
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