Political Correctness Debate
The cluster centers on debates about political correctness, language policing, and the use of potentially offensive terms like slurs on Hacker News, with arguments both defending sensitivity to language and criticizing it as overreach or censorship.
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Thank you for policing other's language. Wouldn't want to stifle discussion with a micro aggression.
Please don't hijack the conversation to whinge about political correctness.
Apparently insensitive language is ok, but questioning it is not? HN, you've lost your way.
It's not politically correct...the author of the comment was acknowledging that the word choice used was incorrect, and amended (not edited!) their comment to show a different phrase.When discussing things of a delicate nature, where precision matters and thoughtless wordchoice will easily derail any useful discussion, having such scruples is something to celebrate and not mock.
I don't believe anyone was ever offended by this, if they were, that would be their problem and corporate language policing or any other institutionalized efforts like that are evil
It sounds like there are some misconceptions about "political correctness"
Your comment seems offensive to people that don't like passive aggressive political correctness.
It distresses me that "political correctness" has become a dirty "four letter" word rather than simply a shared understanding that people who address others in a hate-filled, bullying, disrepectful and demeaning way should be actively shunned and censured (i.e. not "censored").
Yes. It is language policing nonsense. Quit trying to tell people how to talk because of imagined slights.
We're concerned with social effects of saying the wrong thing.