I've always been flummoxed by the anti-PC crowd, especially its dramatic rise and the cheering of ordinary folk about that. PC usually meant "Not being the raging icehole that stands around screaming about minorities in words that have been out of date since before the Civil War." But I'm a minority. So there may be some bias.

Yeah, basically it's just about "I don't care about the feelings of others and people not liking my nastiness makes me angry." "PC" is only an issue when it comes to issues of inclusion and identity. Nobody calls any other context "politically correct."

"Ugh I can't believe I have to call people by their actual NAMES and preferred terms of address. THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL. I HAVE TO....RESPECT PEOPLE...WHO ARE...DIFFERENT THAN ME..."

Honesty and Respect.....GAAAAHHH!!!...IT B-B-BUURRNNSSS!!!!...GET IT OFF MEEEEE!!!....I'M M-M-MELTINGGG!!!!...

based on a true story

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P.C. is one of those catchphrases people use to try to discredit anything someone else might say .. no matter if what is said is the absolute truth or not.

"Political" and "Correct" is an oxymoron and should probably never be uttered under the same breath.

Much like how "honest" and "politician" share the dictionary only reluctantly.

Hahaa, yes. Possibly the leading cause of dictionaries bursting into flames for no apparent reason.

Another phrase I like is "get over it"

You know, I'd dare someone to say that phrase to an Auschwitz survivor or someone descended from any number of peoples who were subjected to genocide, but I have a feeling the person just might without seeing the point.

Yup! All-purpose sayings specifically designed to minimize, marginalize, deflect, and/or dismiss any circumstance or discussion someone might not wish to deal with.

In Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett is this:

Mightily Oats (regarding his Church): “There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example.”
Granny: “And what do they think ? Against it, are they ?”
Mightily Oats: “It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of grey.”
Granny: “Nope.”
Mightily Oats: “Pardon.”
Granny: “There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
Mightily Oats: “It’s a lot more complicated than that—”
Granny: “No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they mean they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
Mightily Oats: “Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes—”
Granny: “But they start with thinking about people as things.”

Dammit, why do I keep putting off reading Pratchett?

Political correctness is RWNJ speak for "respect."

I'd have put it on the other end of the political spectrum, since I've seen fewer RWNJs calling for the policing of thoughts and words than LWNJs.

So when someone says to you "please don't call me that," it's "thought policing?"

No, but I have a deep distrust of people who decide to rewrite books because of potentially offensive language. I'm always worried that a desire for non-offensive language will lead to a society where everything ends up being potentially offensive because people can no longer tell the difference.

Nobody's talking about rewriting books here. We're talking about the language we engage each other in. And for what it's worth, I've heard others use the same rhetoric you're using to justify things like ridicule, hazing, and extremely bad slurs like "squaw" or "redskin" in our day-to-day conversation. I've also heard the PC soundbyte to handwave sound science behind things like gender dysphoria, and the argument of "you're always going to offend someone" applied to defend extremely mean-spirited statements that are calculated to offend. But what all of this comes down to is a lack of respect for people who represent "the other" apart from the sort of "default" culture we've been fed since childhood, and a fear that being asked to speak and think considerately of difference represents some kind of thought policing or frontal assault on freedom.

People like Trump represent exactly what you're talking about when it comes to offensive language and a lack of respect, however far from trying to be PC he goes in the other direction thinking somehow it is 'honest' dialogue. This is why I think that it's more likely to find folks on the left than the right thinking it's somehow "respectful".

i'm glad people are figuring this out and mentioning it.
i always thought the phrase was coined to begin with to marginalize any kind of real morality.
i've been kind of puzzled all along that more people didn't figure it out, the first time it was mentioned.
better late then never, i guess.
the joke was kind of on people who couldn't figure it out because they thought it was a joke.
which is/was kind of an era, we can kind of hope may actually be ending.
i think more people are aware of more things then media wants people think each other are aware of.
of course you still run into people all the time who aren't.
people are always figuring things out, and then forgetting that they had, and then getting bitten on the tail by having forgotten, and then figuring it out again because they have to. except from those who don't, and those who don't forget.

i said that poorly.

i could say three kinds of people in this world
people who figure out what they forgot
people who don't
and people who didn't forget.

of course there are also those who don't want anyone to figure out anything,
because they think they get something out of not having anyone do so.

and then people who never figure anything out elect them

but i've never believed most people fail to figure things out,

just some people who don't want us to believe each other can,
to discourage us from doing so.

Trying to be more respectful of others is never a bad thing - thinking that simply avoiding words avoids the thoughts behind those words is always a mistake. Bigotry and hatred must be addressed directly.