# Political Correctness and Hate Speech Poll

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-correctness-and-hate-speech-poll/919368>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 30, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-correctness-and-hate-speech-poll/919368 "2020-08-30T13:38:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-correctness-and-hate-speech-poll/919368/81 "2020-09-08T19:38:02Z")

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> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#):
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> Thank you. Keep saying this, it needs to become part of culture, it is civility.

I disagree. Civility is always socially constructed, but in this case, I don’t see that the benefits of avoiding descriptions of people outweigh the disadvantages of such avoidance, nor is it the only way to obtain those benefits.

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**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-correctness-and-hate-speech-poll/919368/82 "2020-09-08T21:39:11Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> I disagree. Civility is always socially constructed, but in this case, I don’t see that the benefits of avoiding descriptions of people outweigh the disadvantages of such avoidance

I may not have been clear. I was supporting moving away from lookism, which implies a valuation or devaluation, empowerment or disempowerment by the terms used. Lookism has a lot of commonality with other -isms, racism, sexism. But I don’t want to derail the discussion centering on racism and political correctness. SDMB can take on eliminating lookism after racism, sexism and misogyny. I won’t hold my breath.

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