In the world we now live people have become overly sensitive to words. As for example Berekly, Ca. changing all gender specific words in their municipal codes, such as manhole changed to personhole.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/amp/Banned-words-Berkeley-drops-he-she-14102930.phpDemand for such changes to be made is rediculous. Why do these words offend people? Why are people that sensitive?
It has gotten to the point where you can't even be sure of what pronoun you should use because you may offend someone.
It is not just pronouns that are a problem it's what is considered politically correct to call a person on the basis' of their disability, race, sexual orientation, employment and many other classifications. What is even worse is that the politically correct terms are constantly changing or are personal to whomever you are referring to. So you never really know if you are using the correct term or not.
Why can't things go back to the days where people weren't so outraged and sensitive about every little thing?
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The article linked is about a rewording of municipal codes to be gender neutral. You don't get arrested for not doing it, it's just changing the norm and you're the one throwing a fit over it.
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Not in an uproar I just find it to be rediculous, unnecessary and probably expensive to have to make everything gender nuetral b/c some people are so ultra sensitive about words that are societal norms. Really, who cares if the entrance to a sewer is called a manhole? Is it really an offence to ones sensibilities?
There are so many other things to worry about in life. Why are people so worried about things like this? Why make it an issue?
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An abortion clinic, being referred to as a Family Planning Center?
A Sanctuary City giving sanctuary to some of the Illegal Immigrants that are in the United States illegally, and jeopardizing the Quality of Life, for the rest of the Law Abiding citizens, who are having the Illegal Immigrants being pushed unto the same Law Abiding citizens, in their own cities, because a Liberal Politician wrote a sanctuary law to appease the Illegal Immigrant supporters, and to garner future votes, from those same Illegal Immigrant supporters?
Two prime examples of bizarre political correctness, at the cost of the Quality of Life standards, for the rest of the Public.
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Sorry, but it seems to me like you're making mountains out of personholes. As far as I know, there's no law here prohibiting usage of the word 'manhole', and any efforts towards that are not gaining much ground.
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Strong people create good times.
Good times create weak people.
Weak people create hard times.
Hard times create strong people.
Bear in mind though that all these rules are very arbitrary and hard to enforce. You do not have to speak in a way others expect you to. And while it is true that there are countries where "offensive" speech is prosecuted, and it is also true that the US might become such a country one day - in practice, in order to get in trouble, you need to say something really provocative, otherwise no one will bother suing you.
I do not know any of those newspeak words and speak the same words as I always have. No issues so far. It is much less of a problem when you do not take these norms seriously, than when you do and feel the pressure to conform.
Finally, note that the actual number of people who take those norms seriously is much smaller, than you would think. As always, media attract people's attention to marginal outrageous cases. Some ridiculous university administration recommended using the word "personhole" instead of "manhole", but thousands more university administrations did not. These are mostly irrelevant cases that will only bother you if you purposefully seek them out.
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Right, when other people have opinions avout how things should be named a certain way it's political correctness gone mad and ridiculous.
When you do it, it's all good and fine.
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I would say that decency and oversensitivity are mutually exclusive. There cannot be decency when people are afraid to say anything that could, by someone, be interpreted in a certain offensive way. There is human decency, which includes things like not throwing insults around and picking on people's looks/hobbies/sexuality, and then there is oversensitivity, which includes modifying regular English words, because a tiny fraction of the population *may* in theory misinterpret their meaning.
It is right to follow general human norms and to not do things that are universally accepted as aggressive; it is wrong to purposefully look for something some people may randomly get offended by and censor one's own speech.
Remember when Obama said that he played basketball as though he was on paralympic games, and a lot of media reporters lashed at him for being so insensitive? This is the kind of a situation that goes beyond the realm of expecting human decency. Picking on the guy for an innocent joke that makes logical sense, just because some disabled people might not like this attribution, is ridiculous. It is clear that Obama meant no offence and just wanted to make a joke, and everyone who still gets offended, or, even worse, takes offence on behalf of someone else, is being completely unreasonable.
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I was unaware that Obama said this. However, I personally I think making jokes at the expense of disabled people especially in public are an indecent as well as an empty-headed thing to do. Sorry, but I do not call the reporters being oversensitive here; Obama made a comment and should have known better.
An example of something that I would call being oversensitive as well as ridiculous are people suggesting that "Manager" should be changed to "Personager." I am not sure if there are any advocates of this specifically, but there are examples out there as ludicrous as this particular one across the globe.
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But it is a fact that disabled people are less capable at physical sports, in general, than regular people. Using it as part of one's joke is hardly indecent. It would be indecent to explicitly laugh at disabled people for that, but simply making attribution to this fact is hardly indecent, at least, in my eyes.
I am a foreigner in the US, and I am completely fine with people making friendly jokes about my nationality or ethnicity and stereotypes associated with them.
The world of fun opens before us when we stop taking offence over everything that was not intended to offend us in the first place, and start pumping each other up by making our differences less of a deal. It is when we take our differences seriously and become sensitive over them that the barriers between us start being erected, and we lose connection to each other.
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As @ZeusAres42 pointed out Stephen Fry's lecture is a great lecture about political correctnes.
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I did watch it and I do know he was debating against political correctness. I do think he makes good points.
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No I meant the ones that give access to the sewers tunnels which I am fairly sure also access the street drainage too, but never having been down one I wouldn't know.
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Perfect example of how political correctmess has become rediculous and frustrating.
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