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Originally Posted by Sandtrap328
By saying I believe you to be wrong is an example of how political correctness in speech is destroying a free society?
Given the possibility I may be wrong, asking for examples is destroying a free society?
I don't understand your point.
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First there is a difference between typing WRONG and wrong. Second you made a judgment as me being wrong before I even gave and example. If you definitively say I'm wrong then there is no reason to give any example. This is exactly what the left uses to suppress thought. PC is just more then words, its attitude toward the user. The San Bernadino CA. event happened because the neighbors were afraid of being labelled racist. There are girls and boys, men and women. However Girls is an acceptable term today. If you use it you will be called a sexist or anti women. Communications is the most important part of solving any problem and every word even the 4 letter ones have a use under certain circumstances. To limit words is to limit thought. To ban words by some is to limit another's freedom of expression. I may not like your wording but I defend your right to say it, even to armed conflict. Some where along the line a group has decided that you just don't listen if your offended, but label the user negatively and demand they stop using the word. That's tyranny not freedom of thought. This has spread to the point on campuses where violence is being used to suppress speech. In history these are the beginning steps to domination of the society by tyrants, like Hitler, Stallon, Mao. Freedom comes with risk and at times being offended.