U.S. citizenArkansas
This article is dead on. Weaponized sensitivity: Don't copywrite it; I'm gonna use it.
I am not a politcally correct person. In my conversations, I go out of my way to be "devil's advocate". I mentally stretch my mind the way a weightlifter stretches his muscles by forcing my mind to unpleasant and uncomfortable topics and seeing "where such topics lead". No word is off limits, no concept too vile. This is not to advocate but to learn much as a child learns. My mind becomes "flexible" and able to handle that which shocks others. I become stronger.
Poltical correctness shuts down all thoughts that are offensive to ANYONE. One is punished for any thought that does not conform to the blandest inoffensive comment. People don't mean what they say; they say what they believe will be inoffensive.
If you can't handle what someone else says, that's your limitation and should not restrict someone else right to say something.
When someone says, "I have a right to NOT be exposed" to something, what they are really saying is "I have a right to stop you from saying it".
I am not responsible for your feelings. Anyone who punishes someone for expressing a thought (any thought) destroys any discussion, controls the conversation through force, inhibits free speech, encourages mental weakness, and is an "intellectual coward" for using their feelings instead of their minds. Political correctness is anti-free speech. I am offended by PC and those that support it.
Sept. 23, 2016 at 7:36 p.m.